Health Benefits and Uses of honey
- Burns: Honey when applied over burns easily cools, removes pain and helps in fast healing. Honey consists of salve and antibiotic as a result of which bacteria cannot exists in honey.
- Healing wounds:Wounds such as cuts, grazes, scrape when covered with honey and bandage is an excellent healer.
- Bed Wetting:A teaspoon of honey before going to bed helps water retention, and calms fears in children. This helps to avoid bed wetting in children. To have a proper sleep: Honey helps you to sleep. If you have sleepless nights or if your child is not having a proper sleep at night, then drinking a cup of hot milk mixed with a dessert spoon of honey provide the solution. Honey acts as a mild sedative (minerals, vitamins amino acids) aiding sleep.
- Clear nasal congestion:Take a big bowl of hot boiling water and a dessert spoon or two of honey in it. Bend over the bowl, covering your head and the bowl with a large towel and inhale the fumes. Your nasal congestion will be cleared.
- Digestion:Mix honey and apple cider vinegar in equal quantities. Dilute with water. This drink helps digestion. This also eases joint inflammation.
- Cough and Cold: Coughs, cold and sore throat are common disorders. Take a teaspoon of honey and swallow it down your throat. Honey works excellently for sore throats.
- Appease your taste buds:Eat a spoonful of honey to appease your taste buds. If you have eaten any thing pungent, spicy and feel your tongue burning after, then eat a spoonful of honey.
- Energy Booster:A spoon of honey every morning give you the much needed boost of energy. You can also mix a spoon of honey with water. This is a good remedy to calm highs and raise lows.
- To gain calcium: A teaspoon of honey per day helps calcium utilization and prevents osteoporosis.
- Heart: Heart patients are advised to replace sugar with honey. It has natural fructose and glucose.
- Honey for Longevity: Regular users of honey are considered to be most long lived people. Beekeepers are known to suffer less from arthritis, cancer than any other working group worldwide.
- Migraine:For people who have frequent migraine attacks, a spoon of honey dissolved in half a glass of warm water, after repeated intervals is effective.
- Improving Immune System:Honey improves the immune system in our body. With its anti-bacterial and antioxidant ingredients, it helps us to fight diseases and remain healthy by improving our digestive system.
- Conjunctivitis:Honey dissolved in equal quantity of warm water is good eyebath or lotion for the conjunctivitis.
- Improving digestion:Adding honey to diary products such as sour milk and yogurts can improve your digestion and bowel movements.
Home Remedies Using Honey
- Honey and Weight Loss:Take a cup of warm water and mix one tablespoon of honey with lemon juice. Drink this in an empty stomach every morning. It helps in weight loss.
- For Curing coughs:Mix 6 oz. of liquid honey, 2 oz. of glycerin and juice of two lemons. Mix well, store it tightly screwed bottle and use when required. An instant home made remedy for cough. Food preservative: Honey is good food preservative. While baking cakes replace sugar with honey. The cakes will stay fresher longer due to natural antibiotics as honey retains moisture.
- Pain relief: Make a paste of honey and one spoon of cinnamon powder and mix this in lukewarm water and prepare a paste. Apply this paste to the aching body part and you will get good pain relief.
- Honey in beauty treatments:Honey is widely used as facial treatment. There are different facial recipes depending on the skin type which we will be discussing in another post "Beauty treatment using honey".
- Honey for reducing cholesterol:If your cholesterol level is high, then you can reduce this by using a mixture of honey and cinnamon. This will help you to reduce your blood cholesterol in 2 hours time by 10%. For this you can mix 2 spoons of honey, 3 teaspoon of powdered cinnamon with green tea and take this mixture daily.