A randomised controlled trial of raw honey for the healing of ulcers in leprosy in Nigeria
Paul Alumbugu Tsaku, Sunday Odihiri Udo, Pius Sunday, Anthony Meka, Linda Chinonso Ugwu, Abiola Oladejo, Joshua Akinyemi, Akinyinka Omigbodun, Sopna Choudhury, Jo Sartori, Onaedo Ilozumba, Samuel Watson, Richard Lilford, Ana LTO Nascimento, Ana LTO Nascimento, Ana LTO Nascimento · 2025
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Paul Alumbugu Tsaku and a large team of co-authors published this clinical trial in 2025. It tested raw honey dressings against standard saline dressings for the chronic foot ulcers that leprosy leaves behind. Honey helps other stubborn wounds, but it had never been rigorously tried on leprosy ulcers. The trial ran at two centers in Nigeria with 130 patients whose ulcers had lasted at least six weeks, assigned evenly to the two dressings.
Complete healing by 84 days occurred in 29.2 percent of honey-treated ulcers and 24.6 percent of saline-treated ones, a gap too small to rule out chance. Healing speed leaned toward honey without reaching significance, and recurrence at six months was similar. No treatment-related harms appeared. The authors conclude that honey is a safe, culturally acceptable option where resources are thin. They offer the trial as solid data for future evidence reviews.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Paul Alumbugu Tsaku, Sunday Odihiri Udo, Pius Sunday, Anthony Meka, Linda Chinonso Ugwu, Abiola Oladejo, Joshua Akinyemi, Akinyinka Omigbodun, Sopna Choudhury, Jo Sartori, Onaedo Ilozumba, Samuel Watson, Richard Lilford, Ana LTO Nascimento, Ana LTO Nascimento, Ana LTO Nascimento |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 56 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |