MANUKA: THE BIOGRAPHY OF AN EXTRAORDINARY HONEY
Book ID/图书代码： 04410014B71729
English Summary/英文概要： New Zealand’s manuka honey is known around the world. It fetches extremely high prices, and beekeepers do everything in their power to produce as much of it as they can. Wound dressings containing manuka honey are used in leading hospitals, and it has saved the lives of patients infected with disease-causing bacteria that are resistant to standard antibiotic drugs. In so doing, it has forced the medical profession to re-think its position on the therapeutic properties of natural products.
This book chronicles the remarkable ‘rags-to-riches’ story of manuka honey, as seen through the eyes of a beekeeping specialist who watched it unfold from the very beginning. It’s a great science tale of an unassuming university lecturer and his hardworking lab assistant who found something totally unexpected in a product everyone had written off. And it’s an entertaining account of the way that simple discovery magically caught the international media’s attention, helping some enterprising New Zealanders with a love of bees to develop manuka honey-based products and take them to the rest of the world. The book describes the remarkable antibacterial and therapeutic properties of manuka and the range of uses it has.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 新西兰的麦卢卡蜂蜜现已闻名世界。它不仅可以卖到极高的价格，同时养蜂人们也竭尽所能的扩大其产量。如今含有麦卢卡蜂蜜的创伤敷料被一流的医院所使用，寻常的抗生素药物对于由疾病引发的细菌感染或许无计可施，但麦卢卡创伤敷料却拯救了这些病人们的生命。正因为此，医疗专家们不得不重新审视天然产品的治疗特性在疾病治疗过程中的地位。
本书从一名蜜蜂饲养专家的角度记录了麦卢卡蜂蜜从一文不名到风靡一时的故事。这是有关于一名谦逊的大学讲师和他勤奋的实验助手的科学故事，他们从这个人人都曾写过的产品中，发现了其出人意料的独特品性。同时还欢快的记述了简单的发现是如何引起了世界媒体的关注，从而帮助了喜爱蜜蜂的新西兰人去发展出了一项以麦卢卡蜂蜜为基础的产品并将其推向全世界的面前的。本书为我们讲述了麦卢卡蜂蜜神奇的抗菌性及其治疗特性，并为我们介绍了其如今广泛的应用领域。（DC）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 克里夫•凡•伊顿由美国移民至新西兰，过去三十年里他一直致力于新西兰农业部、外交贸易部、国家园艺研究所及新西兰康维他公司的工作。在针对美国污仔病制定国家害虫管理防止战略的过程中，作者最初曾担任国家蜂蜜饲养员协会顾问，并曾协助其他国家蜂蜜饲养员。作者还参与有两本有关于蜂蜜疾病类书籍的编写。Cliff Van Eaton emigrated from the USA and for over 30 years worked with the NZ Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Horticulture Crown Research Institute, and Comvita NZ. He was primary consultant for the National Beekeepers Association in the development of their National Pest Management Strategy for American Foulbrood, and has assisted beekeepers in other countries. He is a well-known writer on beekeeping, and is the co-author of two books on bee diseases.
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