Useful and medicinal properties of honey

Honey is a beekeeping product with a rich content of glucides, which are divided chemically into glucose, glucosides, and sunsets.

Honey composition: levulose - 36%, glucose - 32%, sucrose - 2%, maltose - 8%, water - 20%, mineral salts - 2%.

Thanks to the rich content of carbohydrates, honey is a very important energy food product. Honey should be consumed by everyone: adults, especially with a lot of physical exertion, athletes, children in the period of growth and the elderly. In terms of therapeutic value of honey is explained by three factors: the nature of sugars, the presence of pollen, royal jelly in honey, the influence of antibiotic from the body of the bee. Honey as a medicine is recommended for people of all ages - from infants to the elderly. In the latter case, honey is recommended, for example, for all acute diseases( typhoid fever, respiratory diseases, jaundice), for sweetening of tea. Large doses of honey are recommended for patients with heart failure. Famous cardiologists recommend the use of honey solutions in association with the injection of insulin to patients with cardiac diseases to stimulate the myocardium. Honey is recommended for all people who, with age, the heart muscle grow old and modify to a greater or lesser degree.

It should be noted that the effect of honey is enhanced when combined with the infusions and broths of mother-and-stepmother, raspberry fruit, linden blossom, chamomile, eucalyptus and other medicinal plants.

Take 5 grams of coltsfoot leaves( 1 tablespoon), pour a glass of boiling water in an enamel saucepan, cover and put in a boiling water bath for 15 minutes, then let the infusion cool and strain it. Remain the remaining raw materials. The volume of infusion is brought boiled water to 200 ml and dissolve in it 1 tbsp.spoon of honey.

Take it 1/3 cup 2-3 times a day as an emollient, expectorant, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial and diaphoretic for respiratory diseases: laryngitis, tracheitis, acute and chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis, pneumonia.

You will need: 30 grams of fresh yeast, honey, olive oil and milk. The yeast is finely chopped and add a few drops of warmed honey. Then connect with 1 tsp.olive oil and 1 tbsp.l.milk. Stir well all the ingredients and apply the mask to your face and neck. Keep the mask for at least 15 minutes.

Required:

1 tbsp.a spoon of bee honey, protein 1 egg, 30 grams of household or children's soap.

Method of preparation.

Mix egg white, honey, grated soap on a fine grater. On a compress paper put a linen cloth, apply the resulting mixture.

Method of use.

Apply the compress on the sore spot, with the mixture down, for 1 - 2 h and wrap up the shawl. The procedure should be performed daily until recovery.

Required:

1 tbsp.spoon of horse radish, 2 tbsp.spoons of bee honey.

Method of preparation.

Stir the grated horseradish and honey, put on linen cloth, cover with a layer of gauze.

Method of use.

Marlay attach to the sore spot, warmly dress and lie in bed 3-4 hours. The procedure should be carried out 2 times a day.

Prepare an infusion of herb( prepare the same way as the infusion of chamomile, the ratio of raw materials to the solvent 1:10), dissolve honey in it( 1 cup of infusion - 1 tablespoon of honey) and use for washing, irrigation and lotions for purulent, long-term non-healing wounds, ulcers, skin burns, etc. Inside, the infusion of cudweed with honey is taken by 1/3 cup 2-3 times daily after meals as an anti-inflammatory agent for peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum.

Required: 1 tsp.herbs peppermint and wormwood, 1/2 tsp.flowers immortelle sandy, 4 tbsp.l.honey, 1 liter of beer.

Method of preparation. All components are ground and mixed. Pour hot beer and cook for 10 minutes. Put in a cool place to infuse for 2 hours. Strain. In the ready infusion add honey and mix well.

Method of use. Drink 1/3 cup before meals 3 times a day.

Required:

2 tbsp.spoons of celandine grass, 1 teaspoon of honey, 500 ml of water.

Method of preparation.

Grass celandine pour boiling water, heat on low heat for 5 minutes, cool for 20 minutes, strain, then add honey and stir well.

How to use.

Use for the preparation of lotions when there is pain or rubbing in the eyes.