Mystery of Chemical Compounds that are Healing in Manuka Honey have been Found
German researchers have identified a chemical compound in the mysterious Honey New Zealand Manuka kills the bacteria that are responsible for better than many antibiotics.
Scientists Food Chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden says " UMF methilglyoxal compounds ."
Now, Te Awamutu company, Manuka Health has partnered with the University of measuring the concentrations of these compounds in New Zealand manuka honey and ensure that the products of competitors.
For now, honey companies to easily create claims about the content of the UMF identified by Waikato University biochemist Professor Peter Molan .
His discovery led to some strains of manuka honey is used to fight against the bacteria that cause stomach ulcers and trigger wound healing.
Honey strain showed an increase in value because it was also effective against certain strains of bacteria resistant to antibiotics.
Some manuka honey showed strength antibiotics conventional antibiotics in the treatment of an infected cesarean section, abdominal inflammation and burning.
The antibacterial properties of honey used, the generated hydrogen peroxide and glucose oxidase, has been used by doctors for centuries. Professor Peter Molan has spent twenty years researching the mysterious substance that is found in large quantities in some manuka honey.
He calls these compounds " phytochemical " agent. Professor Peter Molan has struggled to isolate it in its purest form to determine their chemical structure. He found that phytochemicals can penetrate the skin, fat and muscle with flash working in hot and sour conditions and able to withstand the dressing.
The work of Professor Molan allows manufacturers to manuka honey for the registration of trademarks, UMF, and standardize their honey as antibacterial standard: a most appropriate senior level to combat stomach ulcers, wounds and infections .
Excekutif General Manuka Health, Kerry Paul said today that UMF is used to explain the antibacterial effect of honey has been patented as a brand by Amha (Active manuka honey associations ).
However, the discovery that the University methyilglioxal Dresden ( MGO ) is UMF lead to a test of the existence specialize in honey and a new certification system.
"The next step is to set the standard industry process in place to certify regardless of MGO levels in personal care products made from honey," he said.
Dresden research, led by Professor Thomas Henle, tested over 80 honey around the world and found MGO levels of 700 mg / kg in some New Zealand manuka honey. Ordinary honey has only 10 mg / kg, 70 times less .
Mr. Paul said Manuka Health Tw Awamutu and Dresden University will develop standards for new products manuka honey industry in the treatment lujka solve the problems of the stomach and the skin, that potential in the fight against cancer.
MGO has been used in clinical trials to address a series of Indian forms of cancer.
Paul claimed human studies suggest that MGO entirely produced 40% reduction in the tumor, with a reduction in part on other parts of 40%.