{"id":2154,"date":"2016-07-09T16:23:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T23:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2016-07-11T08:45:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T15:45:20","slug":"can-honey-cure-canker-sores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2154","title":{"rendered":"Can Honey Cure Canker Sores?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, it happened yet again. One of my old banes, canker sores, materialized.<\/p>\n<p>Those who don&#8217;t suffer them don&#8217;t understand how bad they can be. The weeks of lost sleep due to the pain is probably the worst of it. Over the years, I&#8217;ve discovered various ways of both minimizing the chances of their happening* and the pain once they do.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not a complete solution. Recently I heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prevention.com\/mind-body\/natural-remedies\/honey-natural-remedy-canker-sores\">honey showing promise as a treatment<\/a>, so I decided to give that a try. I was a bit skeptical: wipe the sore clean and dry, then briefly apply honey after each meal, that&#8217;s it? The exposure to honey for a under a minute several times a day can do that much?<\/p>\n<p>But darned if it didn&#8217;t seem to actually work. Of course, it&#8217;s only one trial, so it <em>could<\/em> all be nothing but coincidence. Time will tell, but as of this stage it seems promising enough to be worth reporting about.<\/p>\n<p>* Which means finding out which sorts of foods cause allergies to trigger the sores, then avoiding them. Plus, avoiding toothpaste that contains sodium laurel suplhate has helped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, it happened yet again. One of my old banes, canker sores, materialized. Those who don&#8217;t suffer them don&#8217;t understand how bad they can be. The weeks of lost sleep due to the pain is probably the worst of it. Over the years, I&#8217;ve discovered various ways of both minimizing the chances of their happening* [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}