From: Natural Remedies for Healthy Living
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Honey is a thick, sweet supersaturated sugar solution manufactured by bees. it is dark golden in colour. It is produced in the honey sacs of various bees, from nectar of flowers. Honey is stored in honeycomb and used as food for the larvae and the other members of the bee colony in winter.
Honey is purest and richest source of natural sugar, which contains glucose, fructose, water, enzymes and oils.
Honey has antibacterial activity, having antiseptic properties, no germ, fungi or bacterial can thrive in it.
The composition of honey is very complex containing a variety of biochemical compounds including vitamins, amino acids enzymes, and hormones.
Components of honey
Minerals: - Honey contains copper, manganese, zinc, chromium, nickel, iodine,
Phosphorous, silver, sulphur, magnesium, iron, calcium, potassium and sodium.
Vitamins:-A, B1, B2, B6, B12, C and K
Carbohydrates: - Fructose, Amylase, prostate, Glucose, Maltose
Acids: - Lactic Acids, folic acids citric acid, nicotine acid.
Fat, oil and protein.
Honey and its many uses for cures
Honey for its sweetness is often used as a term of endearment by some couples just as Honey sweet heart etc
Honeys have been found to be useful in other spheres.
Honey has been found useful in dressing of wound in burns and ulcers on the skin.
It has been found to bring relief in cases of hoarseness or loss of voice, cold, sore throat and irritant cough.
When mixed with hot milk it will promote sleep.
Honey is used to preserve fruits, to make cakes, candle, cereals and barked foods.
In Egypt it is employed as an embalming material.
Endocrinologist says that Glucose level in blood of healthy person increases among the Diabetic patients but decreases after consumption of honey.
Honey has got properties to prevent all sorts of heart related diseases. By toning up the heart and improves the circulation. One tablespoon daily after food is sufficient to prevent all sorts of heart troubles.
If your child is bedwetting, give the child 3 spoonful of honey, three times a day, it gives energy to the bladder to hold urine for a long period of time.
To make your rashes dry up, continues to take honey and rub the affected parts, it will cure measles, smallpox and chickenpox because of its osmotic properties.
However, ensure you purchase the original bee honey. Any mistake made in this regard will endanger health. Rather than cure, it can mar the system and expose to danger of diabetes.
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