Not over hyped at all. It really is a magical elixir!
My anecdote: my first baby was four months old when I kisssd him after eating chicken satay. Wherever my lips made contact, his skin blistered up. It was later discovered he had a peanut allergy but on this day it was a Sunday and I was a completely inexperienced first time parent.
His the patch on his face was raw - not even any skin left. I walked up my high at with him but Boots and the chemists were shut. I randomly walked into the Holland And Barrett and burst into tears when I showed them his face. Honestly - it was horrendous. I don’t know why I didn’t take him to an emergency clinic - it was bad but hospital felt like massive overkill?
Anyway. The staff very kindly suggested a lower strength Manuka honey (I think it was five or ten) and helped me very gently smear some on the wound and then put a pad on.
Within 24 hours, the skin had healed to an acceptable non-raw, non-weeping state. I couldn’t believe it - a non steroid, non medicated substance had done such amazing healing.
When we finally got confirmation of a nut allergy a few months later, I told the dermatologist at the Evalina clinic at Guys / St Thomas’s about the honey and she was raving over it’s medicinal properties and said she much preferred we did that than use steroid cream on a tiny baby.