Cuban Flower Honey

Cuban flower honey harvested in the idyllic Cuban island of Sancti Spiritus.

The island of Cuba:

Cuba is renowned for its purity, with no pesticides, fungicides or insecticides. This makes the island one of the purest in the world.

The island of Cuba owes its reputation primarily to its medicine:

Cuba’s University of Medical Sciences is rooted in its history. It offers the highest standards of pre- and post-graduate education. It maintains a commitment to and support for public health for the entire population.

Medical education began in east-central Cuba in the province of Camaguey in 1968, when a group of university students from the Havana School of Medicine arrived there to complete their training.

These students made the reputation of Cuban medicine. The group was accompanied by a small contingent of teachers who, out of love for the country, decided to stay.

Cuba is reputed to have the best medicine in the world:

The Cuban pharmaceutical industry:

It is one of only six in the world producing a protein called interferon (INF).

It produces epidermal growth factor, which is used in highly effective creams for burns, hepatitis B vaccine, type B meningococcal vaccine, recombinant streptokinase used in myocardial infarction and pulmonary embolism, immunological modulators, antihypertensive, hypocholesterolemic and anticancer drugs.

Cuba’s pharmaceutical industry took off in the 1960s with the founding of the Centro nacional de investigaciones científicas.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Cuba benefited from the arrival of numerous researchers and doctors from the Soviet Union.

In order to limit expenditure, the authorities are promoting short circuits in which basic research, applied research and production lines are concentrated in a single location.

The Centro de Neurociencias de Cuba (CNEURO), for example, brings together biologists, mathematicians, physicists, doctors involved in various clinical trials and a number of specialized technicians. In particular, CNEURO produces “some six thousand prostheses and hearing aids every year, enabling early diagnosis of deafness in very young children”.

Did you know?

Flower honey mixed with propolis is available free of charge from pharmacies in Cuba. It is considered the best remedy for all ailments.