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Healing properties of honey

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Healing properties of honey

New Zealand bee products are an important natural health product export. Jason Cobb of natural health products company Comvita shows off Comvita's Medicinal Wound Care 18+, which is made from honey.

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Kerryn Pollock, Alternative health therapies – What are alternative health therapies?, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27936/healing-properties-of-honey (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 12 April 2011.