Honey

Honey is nature’s miracle substance!

Containing antibacterial, antifungal and antioxidant powers this triple threat is a component of a number of home remedies and natural cures.

When looking to purchase honey, opt for unfiltered, unheated, unprocessed, local honey.

Sugar has an average of 46 calories per tablespoon, while honey has an average of 64 calories per tablespoon. This may sound somewhat fishy, but the truth of the matter is that honey is approximately twice as sweet as sugar! This means less honey is needed to achieve the same sweetness as sugar.

Honey varies slightly in color and taste; it all depends on the origin of the flower and the nectar. Honey is available year-round, although it is best during the summer and fall when it’s first harvested.

There are many different types and flavors of honey, all differing slightly from one another.

Take for example, tupelo honey. Tupelo honey contains more fructose than other types of honey and is absorbed at a slower rate, making it acceptable for people with hypoglycemia to consume sparingly.

Home Remedies using Honey:

Benefits and Uses of Honey:

Honey is a natural mixture of nectar and bee enzymes.

Produced by bees, this sweet substance is loaded with many essential nutrients, carbohydrates as well as some minerals, B-complex vitamins, and Vitamins C, D and E are also found in honey.

Honey is an excellent, healthy choice to sweeten your drinks and food. Start utilizing honey's many benefits by substituting it for granulated sugar and other artificial sweeteners. This will benefit both you and your family.

Uses of honey:

Anti-bacterial effects:

When applied topically, honey may be useful in treating burns and preventing infection.

Applying honey to a raw blister or burn is an excellent way to keep the injury clean. One study even found that honey healed 100 percent of burns in 50 people within 15 days.

Manuka honey is thought to have especially effective anti-bacterial properties. Studies suggest that manuka honey may fight the Helicobacter pylori bacteria that cause gastrointestinal ulcers.

Dandruff:

This wonder solution will relieve itching, skin irritation and flaking associated with dandruff. Create a diluted solution of 90 percent honey and 10 percent warm water.

Rub into hair every other day for 2 to 3 minutes and leave in for a total of 3 hours. Wash with warm water. Apply mixture weekly to avoid relapses.

Energy Boost:

Honey is a smart and sustainable energy source. Effective in providing fuel to working muscles, honey is also known to promote muscle recuperation and glycogen restoration.

With that being said, honey is an excellent choice prior to and after exercising, as well as a midday snack to keep well energized.

Cough:

Honey has been shown to be a more effective cough suppressant for children ages 2-18 than dextromethorphan, a common ingredient in many cough medicines.

Take a tablespoon of honey and allow it to drip down the throat as far as possible then swallow.

Side Effects of Honey:

Never, under any circumstance, give honey to an infant under one year of age!

In honeys natural form, spores of the bacteria that cause botulism might be present. While this poses no threat to adults and children over the age of one, in infants the spores can colonize in the digestive tract and produce the deadly botulin toxin there.

Honey may trigger allergic reactions, even the potentially life-threatening allergic reaction known as anaphylactic reactions.

People with allergies or who are sensitive to pollen should avoid or use honey and other bee by-products sparingly.