{"id":4766,"date":"2014-07-23T16:46:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T06:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=4766"},"modified":"2014-09-11T12:34:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T02:34:19","slug":"heel-wound-healed-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalhorseworld.com\/stage\/heel-wound-healed-honey\/","title":{"rendered":"Heel wound healed with honey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When my quarter horse mare injured her heel (probably from a wire cut) it wasn&#8217;t possible to stitch this constantly moving and flexing part, so here&#8217;s the treatment process I followed to completely heal this wound.<\/p>\n<p><img title=\"Honey for healing wounds - Natural Horse World\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4421 aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Heelwoundbefore.jpg\" alt=\"Heelwoundbefore\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Honey treatment started 2 days after the initial treatment with hydrogen peroxide to flush it clean twice daily as this was a very deep wound.<\/p>\n<p><img title=\"Honey for healing wounds - Natural Horse World\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4422 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Heelwound3dayshoney.jpg\" alt=\"Heelwound3dayshoney\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">3 days of cleansing with salt solution then honey treatment. I applied it with a syringe to get into the deep wound.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img title=\"Honey for healing wounds - Natural Horse World\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4423 alignnone\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Heelwound3weekshoney.jpg\" alt=\"Heelwound3weekshoney\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">1 month later &#8211; the wound has healed nicely from the inside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img title=\"Honey for healing wounds - Natural Horse World\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4424 alignnone\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Heelwoundafter.jpg\" alt=\"Heelwoundafter\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Completely healed &#8211; just a scar which has reduced even more with time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><h2 class=\"display-posts-title\">More on healing with honey.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"display-posts-listing\"><div class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalhorseworld.com\/stage\/amazing-healing-of-horses-huge-flank-wound\/\">Amazing Healing of Horse&#8217;s Huge Flank Wound<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Warning: this post contains some graphic images of wounds and blood. Keeping horses will always involve coping with injuries. This is one of the worst I&#8217;ve dealt with so I&#8217;m sharing this experience to help others who face a similar situation. My Arabian gelding was badly injured to his flanks, [&hellip;]<\/span><\/div><div class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalhorseworld.com\/stage\/heel-wound-healed-honey\/\">Heel wound healed with honey<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">When my quarter horse mare injured her heel (probably from a wire cut) it wasn&#8217;t possible to stitch this constantly moving and flexing part, so here&#8217;s the treatment process I followed to completely heal this wound. Honey treatment started 2 days after the initial treatment with hydrogen peroxide to flush [&hellip;]<\/span><\/div><div class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalhorseworld.com\/stage\/leg-wound-healed-with-honey\/\">Leg wound Healed with Honey<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">This foal fell over a fence and tore the skin, leaving a wound difficult to stitch. With the application of honey under a bandage fro the first 10 days, then without the bandage, it healed nicely. Arabian foal&#8217;s foreleg wound day 2 (left), then one week after being bandaged with [&hellip;]<\/span><\/div><div class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalhorseworld.com\/stage\/healing-power-honey-severe-wounds\/\">THE HEALING POWER OF HONEY on Severe Wounds<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">by Cynthia Cooper I&#8217;m always looking for natural alternatives when it comes to treating horses and I believe they can work well in conjunction with modern medicine. A while ago now, I had a yearling filly (Ruby) badly injured from wire cuts. She had severed the flexor (front) tendons on [&hellip;]<\/span><\/div><div class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalhorseworld.com\/stage\/honey-for-healing-wounds\/\">Honey for healing wounds<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">More than 4,000 years after Egyptians began applying honey to wounds, it is now being sold for regular wound care all over the world. Called Medihoney, it is made from a highly absorbent seaweed-based material, saturated with manuka honey, a particularly potent type that experts say kills germs and speeds [&hellip;]<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my quarter horse mare injured her heel (probably from a wire cut) it wasn&#8217;t possible to stitch this constantly moving and flexing part, so here&#8217;s the treatment process I followed to completely heal this wound. Honey treatment started 2 days after the initial treatment with hydrogen peroxide to flush 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