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Chronic wounds often require that more than one agent be used to treat the wound, depending on the stage of wound healing. You might often hear the term “bacterial load” to denote the amount of bacteria present in and on a wound. Bacterial load can have a deleterious effect on wound healing. All chronic wounds are believed to be contaminated to some degree with bacteria.

Depending on the amount of bacteria present, wounds may be classified as:

Contaminated Colonized Critically colonized Infected

The first two categories, contamination and colonization, are not treated routinely with antibiotics. Wounds that are critically colonized should be treated, or they may progress to the infected stage. Wounds in the infected stage usually show all the classic signs and symptoms of infection; that is, erythema, edema, increased odour and pain, a rise in white blood cell count and a rise in temperature.

Arthritis pain is nothing to joke about. It makes for miserable lives. While checking into natural remedies, I came across how to relieve arthritis pain with honey and cinnamon. I know it sounds a bit weird – but who cares if it works!

There are a couple of ways to take the honey and cinnamon – as a daily drink or as a tincture to put on painful and swollen joints.

For the drink: For your health, the best quality organic honey would be preferable as well as good quality cinnamon. It seems though there are many ‘recipes’ out there, so there seems to be no need to obsess about exact measurements. One cup of hot water with two spoons of honey in it and one small teaspoon of cinnamon. This can be taken once or twice during the day (i.e. in the morning and before bed). If this is too sweet, then reduce the honey to one teaspoon. Similarly if the cinnamon taste is too hard to take, then reduce it to half a teaspoon. It seems only important that honey and cinnamon are present in the mix. It really depends on what works for you.
For the tincture: Mix one part honey to two parts of lukewarm water and add a small teaspoon of cinnamon powder until it forms a paste. Massage this paste onto the itching/painful part of your body in a slow circular motion. Many people have found that their pain gets noticeably less within a matter of minutes.

Considering that there are a large number of people being helped every day by taking this concoction of honey and cinnamon to relieve their arthritis pain, I would imagine it’s definitely worth a try. If it doesn’t work right away (although many people do report an immediate effect), please try it out for a minimum of four weeks. There really is nothing to lose and everything to gain!

It seems that this combination is also helpful for the common cold, coughs and sinus infections, hair loss, bladder infections, stomach aches, high cholesterol and even toothache (where you put the tincture made with honey and cinnamon without any water on the aching tooth up to three times a day. This mixture taken daily also strengthens our immune system, protecting the body from harmful bacteria and viral attacks. Honey itself has various vitamins and iron in large amounts.

To summarize this is definitely something to include in your family’s medicine cabinet – even though honey and cinnamon reside in the kitchen!