Research and Medical Events Blog

10th-12th November, 2008

Dear Colleagues,
Assalamon-Alaikum, ( May ALLAH Keep You Safe )

Department of Plastic Surgery,Services Institute of Medical Sciences/Servcices Hospital,Lahore , Department of Microbiology, University of Health Sciences,Lahore, School of biological Sciences and Honey Bees Research Institute, Punjab University,Lahore invite You to the second international conference on “ Medicinal Uses of Honey” from Nov.10-12,2008.
The idea behind the conference is to share and exchange Knowledge, Research and experience and to promote use of Honey in a wide spectrum of diseases. Following topics will be discussed by internationally renowned speakers.

Honey, The Natural Healer and The best medicine
Past, Present and Future of Honey in modern medical Science
Can Honey reduce Insulin Resistance, Obesity and Diabetes Mellitus?
Honey Dressings in Burn Patients
Use of Honey in Diabetic Foot
Antibacterial properties of Honey
Are we losing fight against multi-drug resistant microbes?
Honey as probiotics and prebiotics
Antioxidant properties of Honey
Comparison of different floral Honeys with regard to MIC values against common pathogens
Bees and Bee’s Products
Bee Flora and its Biodiversity
Use of Honey and Transfer Factors in Cancer and Degenerative Diseases
Honey use as Cough Suppressant
Honey Use for Restorative Sleep
Honey Use for Cognitive performance and Memory
Honey as adjuvant to Chemotherapy

Honey is a natural product, produced by Honey Bees from nectar and pollen of flowers prevalent in that particular area. So the honey’s color, taste and smell vary in different parts of the world. So far more than 300 types of Honey have been found.
Honey is produced by bees as food for themselves but the major use is by the humans. Honey is one of the healthy food product having readily assimilable sugars, as these have already been digested by the Bee’s intestinal enzymes.

Honey has been used as food sweetener, for its nutritive and medicinal properties. Honey has been used for times immemorial as traditional remedy for many ailments. However may researchers and scientists now have carried out enormous number of clinical trials, proving the benefits of honey as an effective therapeutic agent. Honey is being used extensively to augment immune responses in patients on chemotherapy, to promote restorative sleep, reducing insulin resistance, control of diabetes mellitus & obesity, as cough suppressant, help in cognitive performance and memory, in delayed/non healing wounds, infected wounds, diabetic foot, gastric ulcers, sore throat, radiation mucositis ad ocular infections. Honey is being used by many ENT Surgeons, Dento-maxillo- facial surgeons and also by the dermatologists for many many ailments.
The first International Conference on Medicinal Uses of Honey was held at Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia, under the patronage of University Sains Malaysia from Aug.26-28, 2006.This Conference was the first sincere effort to break the hard frozen ice about use of Honey in human ailments. There was a real variety of speakers from all around the globe, to discuss and share their experience about the medicinal uses of honey.

At the concluding ceremony, it was decided unanimously that the next conference will be held at Lahore-Pakistan in 2008.We are trying our level best to organize this event by requesting and attracting a galaxy of international speakers. The emphasis is to develop and provide a platform for western and eastern scientists so as to promote the use of honey on real scientific grounds in different diseases.
Please visit the official website “www.honeyconference .com” It will provide all information about the conference events, abstract submission, Travel arrangements, Registration fees, social program, city tour and accommodation/ hotel arrangements.
Please pass on this information to all colleagues interested in honey use in human diseases. We are anxiously waiting for your guidance and suggestions

With Warm Greetings from Lahore, Pakistan

Ghulam Qadir Fayyaz

Secretary Organizing Committee
Associate Professor Plastic surgery
Services Institute of Medical Sciences/
Services Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan
Email:- gqfayyaz@hotmail. com
Mobile:- 0092+321+4430561
Fax:- 0092+42+5164932