User talk:FuzzyCatPotato/Honey

Interesting...
A lot of this text seems OK, not too far out of line. The scriptural parts regarding medical practice may provide a few points fit for rebuttal. I'll be interested to see how it goes.

I learned a new word here, which has to do with the shape a cell assumes when immersed in a hypertonic solution, as it dries up and dies. One of the reasons was such a persistent infection was that the bacillus could form spores resistant to desiccation. Don't get me started on honeybee anomalies. I spent one summer working for a state agriculture department as a bee inspector, with time about equally divided between inspecting hives in the field, and thoracic dissections indoors on rainy days, looking for tracheal mites. The outdoor work was interesting, and the dissections were repetitious, but yielded useful info.

On a slightly related topic, have you seen the bee venom claims by Charlie Mraz? Old news, perhaps... Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 05:34, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
 * The claims that this article makes about the medicinal impacts of honey are largely valid. However, the article makes the claim that the Qur'an predicted all of these benefits in the 600s, through the revelation of Allah, in an attempt to support the idea of Qur'anic scientific foreknowledge, which is invalid. Hence, the rebuttal.
 * I've never heard of apitherapy. Thank you. 15:36, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Ah, OK, now it makes sense to me. Excuse my blunt English, but "scientific foreknowledge" my ass. Honey has been gathered throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa for millennia, and was very likely used as a folk cure, both internal and topical, in many cultures predating the rise of Islam.
 * In modern times, my father gathered a bit of lore from some Appalachian transplants among his fellow beekeepers in the American midwest: to help with a throat infection, take a shot of whiskey mixed with an equal part of honey. The viscosity of the honey lets the mixture linger on the affected tissues. Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 16:34, 16 December 2014 (UTC)