Generally, take a spoonful in the morning and evening, and take it with warm water. Be careful not to use boiled water, because high temperature will destroy its nutrients; You can also eat it in steamed bread or bread; Can also be combined with other related foods (referring to other bee products such as pollen, etc. ) to improve the efficiency of medical care. As for the application of honey to treat diseases, it should be carried out under the guidance of doctors.
How to choose honey? There is a lot to say about the purchase of honey.
How to choose honey?
Modern scientific research has confirmed that honey not only contains many nutrients, but also has the function of preventing and treating many diseases. Vitamins, organic acids, carotene, inorganic salts and trace elements in honey can maintain the excitability of nervous system, prevent and treat some nervous system diseases and eye diseases, and enhance human immunity, thus preventing infection. Among them, amylase, sucrose invertase, lipase, etc. It can activate human digestive and metabolic functions and regulate blood lipid. A variety of active ingredients contained in it have antibacterial and bacteriostatic effects, which can enhance the immune and disease-resistant function of human body, so external use can promote wound healing, such as skin sores, wounds, chilblains, ulcers and other diseases.
In addition, American nutritionists also found that honey contains an amazing number of antioxidants, which can greatly increase the content of superoxide dismutase (SOD) in human body, scavenge free radicals in human body, and have anti-cancer and anti-aging effects.
Nectar has different functions.
Honey is brewed from different nectar, and its health care function is of course closely related to the types of nectar. Buckwheat nectar, sweet in taste and cold in nature, can reduce qi, moisten intestines, clear away heat and detoxify, and rutin contained in it can soften blood vessels, enhance the elasticity of tube wall, and help prevent hypertension and stroke; Sophora japonica honey, cool in nature, has the effects of relaxing blood vessels, lowering blood pressure and hypnosis; Pear flower honey, sweet and cool in nature, can produce fluid to quench thirst, relieve cough and phlegm, moisten lung and clear heat, nourish yin and moisten dryness, and is suitable for respiratory diseases with excessive phlegm and short breath; Sunflower honey, sweet and light in taste, has the functions of dilating blood vessels, lowering blood pressure and enhancing the immune function of the body; Milk vetch honey, sweet in nature, can relieve irritation symptoms caused by gastric mucosal inflammation such as heartburn and nausea, promote ulcer healing, and also have curative effect on poor appetite. When shopping, you should choose the right honey according to your actual needs.
There is a lot to say about the purchase of honey.
Honey is very popular in the market because of its healthy reputation. A large number of people make fake honey dazzling and it is difficult to tell the truth from the false. In fact, the method of distinguishing synthetic honey from natural honey is very simple: take 1 part honey, 4 parts water and 1 part alcohol, add them into a small container, and then shake them continuously until foam is produced. If the foam gathers for 3 to 5 minutes and dissipates, it is synthetic honey; If the foam accumulates for more than 7 ~ 8 days, it is natural honey. In addition, when buying honey, you should also pay attention to:
1, pay attention to the outer packaging, if there is a list of ingredients, most of them are unnatural products;
2. Check whether there are product implementation standards;
3, check whether there is a hygiene license, production license.
In addition, in recent years, incidents of poisoning due to eating poisonous honey have occurred from time to time in some places in the south, so you must go to regular shopping malls or bee products stores to buy honey. Generally speaking, June and July of the lunar calendar is the flowering period of poisonous wild plants (such as Gelsemium elegans, Datura stramonium, Tripterygium wilfordii and Equisetum equisetum). At this time, bees have no other flowers to pick, so they are hungry and want poisonous nectar to brew poisonous honey. If you eat this honey by mistake, you will have poisoning symptoms within 13 days, such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, numbness of limbs and so on. And it will also cause damage to the heart, liver and kidney, and even lead to death in severe cases.
How to distinguish poisonous honey? Poisonous honey is often dark in color, brown, smelly, bitter and numb in tongue. To prevent eating poisonous honey by mistake, it is mainly to be vigilant. If you are prepared, you will be safe. Don't buy suspicious honey in suspicious seasons and suspicious places.
Pay attention to the use of honey:
Generally, take a spoonful in the morning and evening, and take it with warm water. Be careful not to use boiled water, because high temperature will destroy its nutrients; You can also eat it in steamed bread or bread; Can also be combined with other related foods (referring to other bee products such as pollen, etc. ) to improve the efficiency of medical care. As for the application of honey to treat diseases, it should be carried out under the guidance of doctors.