questions about Active Manuka Honey: What is Active Manuka Honey?
What is Active Manuka Honey? Active Manuka Honey, is harvested from the flower of the wild, un-cultivated Tea Tree Bush (called leptospermum scoparium) in New Zealand. The bees are placed in the middle of wild tea tree bushes to collect this precious, medicinal honey. The honey is then very carefully extracted from the comb in a process called ‘cold slung’. The honey is ‘swung cold’ out of the comb, after carefully scrapping off the comb capings. The comb capings keep the honey inside the comb. Active Manuka Honey has been used by New Zealand’s Aboriginal people for centuries for both stomach as well as wound healing purposes. Active Manuka Honey has been researched over 20 years by Dr. Molan, Senior Lecturer, Biochemistry Department at the Waikato University in New Zealand. Dr. Molan has found that Active Manuka Honey seems to naturally destroy staph, strep as well as the h. pylori bacterium (helicobacter pylori).
