How to treat with honey?

How to treat with honey? And what does it help with?

Arina, Moscow region.

Gleb Elizarov, cardiologist, beekeeper, Moscow:

– Bee honey is a complex natural composition of biologically valuable substances in the form of saccharides, vitamins, microelements and enzymes, which have high calorie content and digestibility.

Honey is able to maintain chemical composition, acid-base balance and sterility. This important ability of honey is destroyed if stored improperly. Thus, heating bee honey for 5 minutes to 800C or irradiating it with sunlight for an hour leads to a loss of antimicrobial effect. Storing it at low temperatures also has a bad effect on the properties of honey.

The main medicinal properties of honey are its antimicrobial activity, wound healing and irritant effects, and dietary qualities.

1. Antimicrobial effect

expressed against staphylococci, streptococci, bacilli, diphtheria bacteria. Honey is indicated for pharyngitis, tonsillitis, acute and chronic bronchitis. In folk medicine, in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, bee honey is used together with the internal fat of a badger, bear or dolphin. For cervical erosion, treatment with a tampon with 15–20 g of honey for 3–5 hours for 10–12 days is successfully used.

2. Dietary properties

It is known that honey is sweeter than sugar, has a cloying taste and therefore quickly causes satiety. For this reason, honey is included in many weight loss diets and to suppress appetite.

3. Honey and diabetes

Honey contains 38% fructose (not dangerous for diabetics) and only 32% glucose. There is an assumption, based so far only on clinical observations, that fructose in bee honey weakens the functional load on pancreatic cells that respond to changes in blood glucose levels. So the use of small doses of honey (20–30 g per day) while reducing other carbohydrates is indicated for diabetics.

4 Wound healing effect

Honey is effective in the treatment of ulcers and wounds, especially in the presence of chronic processes and if the pathology is not treated by other means. Applied externally, it improves blood supply, enhances the outflow of lymph from the affected tissues and creates conditions for nourishing the cells around the wound. Mix 80% honey with 20% fish oil and apply to the affected area under a bandage. This recipe is also applicable for trophic ulcers.

5. Local irritant effect

In case of primary and senile cataracts, placing honey behind the lower eyelid leads to improved blood supply, and therefore to increased nutrition of eye tissue. Also, for corneal ulcers, traumatic keratitis, and corneal burns, rinsing with a 50% aqueous solution of honey 4–8 times a day is recommended.

6. The effect of honey on the gastrointestinal tract

Effective for peptic ulcers of the stomach and duodenum. It is also effective in the treatment of gastritis (both with low and high acidity). Honey has a multifaceted effect on these diseases: it promotes the healing of ulcerative defects, normalizes acidity, the secretion of gastric juice, suppresses microflora (bactericidal effect), plus it has a general strengthening and calming effect. For gastritis with low acidity, it is recommended to take 25 g of honey in warm boiled water 2 times a day before meals. And for gastritis with high acidity - 1 tbsp. spoon 3 times a day for 2 hours.
before meals.

7. Antitoxic effect

It acts, in particular, by influencing the metabolism of liver tissue.

8. Calming effect

The use of honey as a mild hypnotic is especially valuable in pediatrics. Infants whose daily diet includes honey develop and gain weight faster and get fewer colds. Honey should be given gradually: with 1-2 drops, and then - 1 tsp. per day, but in dissolved form.

9. Treatment of hypertension

Taking honey with the juices of vegetables, fruits and berries helps. For example, mix a glass of beet juice, a glass of carrot juice, a glass of black rowan juice and a glass of honey and take 1 tbsp. spoon 3-5 times a day. A very effective remedy for the initial stage of hypertension.

10. Anemia

Inside, 150 g of buckwheat honey per day. Course – 30 days.

Attention

For healthy people, honey is no less beneficial. It helps maintain health and prevent many diseases, active longevity. Regarding the dosage of honey consumption by healthy people, most authors recommend doses: 1 g per kg of body weight or 100–150 g of honey per day.

Do you know that...

The doctor and poet Avicenna wrote: “If you want to preserve your youth, be sure to eat honey.” He especially recommended eating honey for people over 45 years of age.

The definition of honey in an old Russian medical book: “Honey is the juice from the dew of heaven, which bees collect in good times from fragrant flowers, and therefore has many powers and is useful as a cure for many diseases.”