{"id":54019,"date":"2016-04-24T15:45:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T22:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=54019"},"modified":"2016-04-24T15:45:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T22:45:11","slug":"honey-for-wounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/04\/24\/honey-for-wounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Honey for wounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,\u00a0Dehiwela<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Diabetics tend to get wounds easily but \u00a0do not heal easily.\u00a0 Specially these days with the sweating and dry skin, often the diabetics tend to scratch and these scratches can become chronic or take a long time to heal even with antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>One of the easiest method to heal the wound \u00a0is to apply honey on it.\u00a0 Many\u00a0 ask whether the ants will not attack the honey! Not really. Ants do not come to the living flesh. And others ask whether it is good for the diabetic since it is sweet. Certainly it is safe since this is only superficial application.<\/p>\n<p>Not only for diabetics even when the little children get hurt or have scrapes or for that matter any wound, acute or chronic heal very quickly when honey is applied on it. Try it! You have nothing to loose since honey is a well known anti septic anyway!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,\u00a0Dehiwela Diabetics tend to get wounds easily but \u00a0do not heal easily.\u00a0 Specially these days with the sweating and dry skin, often the diabetics tend to scratch and these scratches can become chronic or take a long time to heal even with antibiotics. One of the easiest method to heal the wound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}