Manuka Honey and Increased Salivary Flow Rate

• Efficacy of Manuka honey oral rinse in treatment of xerostomia among elderly patients: a randomized controlled trial.

  • 2025-05-23
  • RCT
  • BMC oral health 25(1)
  • • Dalia Ghalwash
    • Ayman El-Gawish
    • Asmaa Abou-Bakr

  • PubMed: 40410721
  • DOI: 10.1186/s12903-025-06125-9

  4 Insights on

  • Increased Salivary Flow Rate

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  the salivary flow rate was significantly higher after one month of using Manuka honey oral rinse (1.51 ± 0.34) than honey oral rinse group (1.01a ± 0.19), and the control group (0.81a ± 0.19).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  Manuka honey oral rinse used 3 times per day for 1 month