"Antifungal"

"manuka does have antifungal properties."

We have to be careful with the word "antifungal." When a scientific paper describes something as "antifungal" or "fungicidal," it may just be b/c the microbe being killed or slowed belongs to the KINGDOM FUNGI. That is a far cry from saying that it would kill candida in its hyphal or fungal form.

Yeasts, technically, no matter what their form are classified as fungi, but there is a huge, structural difference between a small single-celled candida yeast cell and the hyphal-filamentous-mycelial form of candida. (As far as candida fighters are concerned, we are actually talking about a "FUNGUS GOING FUNGAL.") If you go to Ustream and watch Dr Jeff's videos he provides tons of evidence and proof of this. Imagine something the size of a dime, which then expands to the size of a wooden dowel, which then expands in 3-D to a network of wooden dowels. A small single-celled yeast cell is easily engulfed by the much larger white blood cells of our immune system; completely the opposite when candida goes hyphal.

I wish there was less ambiguity in the scientific studies, or that I had more experience interpreting them. On the one hand, if you think of candida in a petri dish, in agar or some other medium, with a non-acid pH and no multitude of competing, opposing bacteria, why wouldn't it turn fungal? On the other hand, if scientists observed honey in a petri dish killing fungal candida, you would think those results would be trumpeted loudly and publicized, by honey makers/distributors, if by no one else.

But I'd be psyched to learn if manuka can combat mycelial candida--so please supply any info.