
Originally Posted by
Tom Busby
I'm under the impression that honey will slightly improve the skin barrier, and that's all. I trialed it for about 2 weeks, and what a mess. People that write about honey rarely identify what condition they're treating, and how they were able to identify the causative agent.
As for other natural alternatives, there aren't any natural antifungals. For example, coconut oil is not an antifungal -- labs can use it to grow malassezia colonies in vitro, although cotton oil is better for that task.
Fungi are eukaryotes just like us, so they harder to nuke than bacteria or viruses, without harming the human host, because all eukaryote cell walls are all nearly identical, which is how fungi evade detection by the body's immune system. Hence, the limited arsenal even for synthetic antifungals.