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Is Gaza Honey Mixture The Next Viagra?

Gaza merchant claims honey mixture treats erectile dysfunction, male infertility.  

A Palestinian beekeeper checks a honeycomb before collecting honey at a farm in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, April 9, 2013. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: SOCIETY) - RTXYEPE
A Palestinian beekeeper checks a honeycomb before collecting honey at a farm in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, April 9, 2013. — REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

Gaza resident Hussam Mansour selects the finest honey from outside Palestine and uses it to produce complex mixtures to treat several diseases for which modern medicine has no treatment.

Mansour has treated 25 infertile couples who had been unable to bear children for years, by means of pure honey supplemented with vitamins and pollen.

Mansour, 52, has produced this treatment after more than 25 years of experience, work and trade in bee honey. He developed a mixture that cures many diseases, including erectile dysfunction (ED), inflammatory hepatitis, stomach ulcers, inflammation of the prostate and the duodenum, in addition to nervous system issues.

Mansour mixes the honey with a number of different types of pollen and with so-called royal jelly, a substance excreted from the salivary glands of worker bees. When worker bees decide to make a new queen, they choose several small larvae and feed them royal jelly to trigger the development of queen morphology.

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