To some degree, but the more voracious kind is based on honey made by bees feasting on Australian Tea Tree .. which is, itself, a pretty wonderful source of all kinds of protective substances.
<-- grew up in Australia, was constantly healing my scrapes and bumps with Tea Tree oils and Manuka honey .. glad its all finally getting some science.
My family used to do similarly, even though "modern" medicines like neosporin were popular then, but IIRC bark and sap from the Manuka tree is supposed to be good, too.
+1 for raw honey being better, but it's pretty hard to get it in big cities (without paying ridiculous prices!).
<-- grew up in Australia, was constantly healing my scrapes and bumps with Tea Tree oils and Manuka honey .. glad its all finally getting some science.