Buzzy bodies

Earlier this year, Laurel Carroll was diagnosed with H. pylori, a type of bacteria that infects the stomach. Her doctor broke out his prescription pad, but Carroll had her own remedy in mind: honey, specifically manuka honey.

"The doctor said I could do a really hard-core course of antibiotics. I was like, 'There's no way,' " recalls the 39-year-old acupuncturist, who lives in Windsor Terrace. "I was determined to cure it naturally."

Carroll is one of a growing number of people, in New York and elsewhere, looking to manuka honey to treat everything from acne to ulcers. Imported from New Zealand and long popular there and in Great Britain, manuka honey is thought to have unique healing properties thanks to a high concentration of methylglyoxal, an antibacterial agent, in the nectar of manuka bush flowers.

Sticky clean! Cymone Speed says washing her face with manuka honey has given her a youthful, glowing complexion.

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When daughter Lucia gets a scrape, Laurel Carroll opts for honey, not Neosporin.

Whole Foods stores in the Northeast began stocking manuka honey products about half a dozen years ago, and now offer as many as 15 varieties. "It's consistently grown in popularity each year," says Whole Foods public relations manager Michael Sinatra.

At Perelandra Natural Food Center in Brooklyn Heights, co-owner Roland Auer has seen manuka honey fly off his shelves — almost literally. After his shop kept running out of the pricey bee food — which the store sells for $33.59 to $39.99 for a 17.6-ounce jar — he realized that customers were stealing it.

Now he stocks it behind the vitamin counter, where it's safe from sticky fingers, but it's still a hot commodity. Given its high price, "it's a very popular item," Auer says.

Carroll buys her manuka honey online and estimates that with herself, her husband and their two daughters, the family goes through a $50 8-ounce tub every month. She ingests a spoonful each day for general health, as does her husband, Stewart Carroll, 41.

Stewart, a black belt in Brazilian jujitsu — the couple owns a Brazilian jujitsu school in Rockaway Beach called Rock-Jitsu — is especially interested in manuka honey's potential anti-inflammatory properties. (He's not the only athlete buzzing for the honey. In his upcoming book, "Serve To Win: The 14-Day Gluten-Free Plan for Physical and Mental Excellence," out next week, tennis star Novak Djokovic reveals that he takes at least two spoonfuls of the honey every day.)

With their daughters, Lucia, 7, and Saachi, 5, Laurel uses manuka regularly to treat their cuts, scrapes and warts. "Clearly, with any kind of scab or abrasion, the first line of defense is honey," she says.

The whole family uses a special toothpaste made from manuka honey and propolis, another bee product, and Carroll tries to get her girls to ingest a spoonful of honey as often as possible, though the kids don't like the taste. "It smells like hydrogen peroxide," she admits.

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