This doesn’t explain why the honey-treated wounds healed faster. And, we have no reason to think the cleaned wounds were cleaned with soap and water (as opposed to just water, or something else).

Even if the honey-bacteria has a lower concentration than wound-bacteria, the honey-treated wound would still have both the honey-bacteria and the regular wound-bacteria. So we’d still expect it to have more bacteria than an antibiotic-treated wound.

So, honey stops bacteria growth, including its own bacteria. And, on top of that, antibiotics do something that slows healing. This provides a potential explanation for why honey-treated wounds healed the fastest.

(D) only explains why honey is better than cleaning alone. It doesn’t explain why honey-treated wounds healed faster than the antibiotic-treated wounds. After all, we’d expect antibiotics to kill bacteria, too.

So, honey has one advantage over antibiotic ointment. You know what else it has? Tons of bacteria. This doesn’t help explain why honey-treated wounds, in light of that bacteria, healed faster than antibiotic-treated wounds.