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Medicinal value of honey

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Honey is said to facilitate better physical performance and
resistance to fatigue, particularly for repeated effort; it also
promotes higher mental efficiency. It is, therefore, used by both
the healthy and the sick for any kind of weakness, particularly in
the case of digestive or assimilative problems. Improved growth of
non-breast fed newborn infants, improved calcium fixation in bones
and curing anaemia and anorexia may all be attributed to some
nutritional benefit or stimulation from eating honey.

Honey is said to improve food assimilation and to be useful for
chronic and infective intestinal problems such as constipation,
duodenal ulcers, and liver disturbances. Honey is also said to
normalize kidney function, reduce fevers, and help insomnia. It is
supposed to help recovery from alcohol intoxication and protect the
liver. Heart circulation, and liver ailments and convalescent
patients in general improved after injection with solutions of 20 and
40% honey in water. The use of honey mixed with milk or milk
products is a very common home remedy against colds and infections of
the throat.

Traditional, but well-studied medicinal systems as the ayurvedic
medicine of India, use honey predominantly as a vehicle for faster
absorption of various drugs such as herbal extracts. Secondarily, it
is also thought to support the treatment of several more specific
ailments, particularly those related to respiratory irritations and
infections, mouth sores and eye cataracts. The traditional
assumption that honey made from the nectar of a medicinal plant has
the same or similar beneficial activity as the one recognized for the
whole plant or some parts of it. Even if no transfer of active
ingredients is involved, mechanisms similar to homeopathic
protestation are possible.

Honey is used for curing the following diseases

(presentation material by Mr Kuyil, March 2002)

Ailment
How to use

Arthritis
Slow massage of honey paste made of one part of honey with two parts
of lukewarm water and a small teaspoon of cinnamon powder, on the
affected area of the body, recedes the pain within a minute or two.

Even chronic arthritis can be cured by consumption of one cup of hot
water with two spoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon
powder by arthritis patients in the morning and night everyday.

Hair loss
Those suffering from hair loss or baldness, may apply a paste of hot
olive oil, one tablespoon of honey, one teaspoon of cinnamon powder
before bath and keep it for approx. 15 min. and then wash the hair.

Bladder infections

Drinking two tablespoons of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of
honey in a glass of lukewarm water destroys the germs of the bladder.

Toothache
Application of a paste of one teaspoon of cinnamon powder and five
teaspoons of honey on the aching tooth be done 3 times a day cures
the toothache within a few days.

Cholesterol
Two tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of Cinnamon powder
mixed in 16 ounces of tea water, if given to a cholesterol patient,
reduces the level of cholesterol in the blood by 10% within 2 hours.

If this mixture taken 3 times a day any chronic cholesterol is
cured. Pure honey taken with food daily relieves complains of
cholesterol.

Colds
Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one
tablespoon lukewarm honey with 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon powder daily for
3 days. This process will cure most chronic cough, cold and clear
the sinuses.

Infertility
Yunani and Ayurvedic have been using honey for years in medicine to
strengthen the semen of men. If impotent men regularly take two
tablespoon of honey before sleeping, their problem will be solved.

Women who cannot conceive may take a pinch of cinnamon powder in half
teaspoon of honey and apply it on the gums frequently throughout the
day, so that it slowly mixes with the saliva and enters the body.

Upset stomach
Honey taken with cinnamon powder cures stomach ache and clears
stomach ulcers from the root. It is revealed that if honey is taken
with cinnamon powder the stomach is relieved of gas.

Heart diseases
A paste of honey and cinnamon powder applied on bread or chapati
instead of jelly and jam and eaten regularly for breakfast reduces
the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart
attack.

Regular use of the above process relieves loss of breath and
strengthens the heartbeat.

Immune system
Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system
and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks.

Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in
large amounts. Constant use of honey strengthens the white blood
corpuscles to fight bacteria and viral diseases.

Indigestion

Cinnamon powder sprinkled on two tablespoons of honey taken before
food relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals.

Longevity
Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder, when taken regularly
arrests the ravages of old age.

Mixture of 4 spoons of honey, 1 spoon of cinnamon powder and 3 cups
of water and boil to make like tea when drunk 1/4 cup, 3 to 4 times a
day keeps the skin fresh and soft and arrests old age.

Pimples
Three tablespoons of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder paste
applied on the pimples before sleeping and washing it next morning
with warm water, if done daily for two weeks, removes pimples from
the root.

Skin Infections
Eczema, ringworm and all types of skin infections are cured by
applying honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts on the affected
parts.

Weight loss
Honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one-cup water if taken daily, in
the morning 1/2 hour before breakfast on an empty stomach and at
night before sleeping, reduces the weight of even the most obese
person

Cancer
Patients suffering from advanced cancer of stomach and bones should
take, on a daily basis, one tablespoon of honey with one teaspoon of
cinnamon powder for one month 3 times a day.

Fatigue
Recent studies have shown that the sugar content of honey is very
helpful and makes the person alert and flexible.

It also increases the vitality of body if half tablespoon of honey
taken in one glass of water and sprinkled with cinnamon powder, taken
daily after brushing and in the afternoon at about 3.00 p.m. when the
vitality of the body starts decreasing.

Bad breath

The morning gargle with one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon powder
mixed in hot water keeps the breath fresh throughout the day.

Digestive system
Honey is said to improve food assimilation and to be useful for
chronic and infective intestinal problems such as constipation,
duodenal ulcers and liver disturbances.

Respiratory system

In temperate climates and places with considerable temperature
fluctuations, honey is a well-known remedy for colds and mouth,
throat or bronchial irritations and infections. The benefits, apart
from antibacterial effects, are assumed to relate to the soothing and
relaxing effect of fructose.

Skin and wound healing

Honey is used in moisturizing and nourishing cosmetic creams, but
also in pharmaceutical preparations applied directly on open wounds
and burns. If applied immediately, honey reduces blistering of burns
and speeds regeneration of new tissue

It helps against infections, promotes tissue regeneration, and
reduces scarring also in its pure, unprocessed form.

A cream, applied three times per day and prepared from equal parts of
honey, rye flour and olive oil, has been successfully used on many
sores and open wounds.

Eye disorders
Honey reduces and cures eye cataracts, cures conjunctivitis and
various afflictions of the cornea if applied directly into the eye.