Dip into honey...

[HollyElise]

Do you seal the jar? ...what i mean is, does any fermenting occur?

[pogofish]

With 40% base-spirit, I would hope not!

Nope, sealed it in a couple of old corked brandy bottles so all it need do is mature & mellow - Parts of it were clearing nicely when I checked tonight, showing a lovely golden-clear liquid. Hopefully, it should eventually all clear to be like that as it matures.

[wild-in-tent]

Honey is also good for wounds. I know several loggers here in BC who have been hurt in the bush and couldn't get flown out right away, they slapped honey on the festering wound and it prevented gangrene from setting in. I believe they said raw unpasteurized honey is best for it, but one logger I knew just used the regular creamy honey and it worked. Note prior to doing this it is best to put salt in water as hot as you can stand it and dip wound in first...or clean wound out if too awkward to dip by using clean cloth soaked in the above and squeezed onto the wound...a couple of the loggers did not have that luxury though and just used the honey. Here is a link about it's effectiveness.

http://bio.waikato.ac.nz/honey/evidence.shtml