Posted on 08/22/2020 9:50:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Jamaican version is honey, lime, and rum. Either way, they both work!
I have a chronic cough that flares up sometimes, I usually have a bottle of prescription cough medicine for such times. Last time I had none. I finally tried honey melted in a small amount of HOT water. It stopped me from coughing as quickly as I drank it. AND lasted all night!
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Absolutely my experience. Local honey from the beekeeper down the road. Bees enzyming the crap out of local flora. It’s a blessing for someone who started experiencing seasonal allergies in the near half century of life.
They are bringing in at least 2 different kinds of pollen right now and the Golden Rod flow is kicking so the ladies are in gear and mission driven!
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I had a serious skin cancer removed from the thin skin on my hand. The doctor prescribed medicinal honey ointment to put on the opening where the skin was missing. I put it on and rubbed it in (painful) everyday and the skin grew over the 1” hole on my hand in 6 weeks. I was surprised, but it worked.
Honey does not rot. It has stuff in it that prevents bacteria growth. It has an indefinite shelf life. Can this property be medicinal?
If I had a question about enterprise software I might ask Bill Gates. But what medical background does he have?
Grampa used to make hot butter-rum...with honey. Yum!
When my kids were little I made a delicious herbal tea from goodies I gathered from my land. I added honey to the mix to sweeten it. The effect was to knock down the respiratory honking cough and resulting infection before it got them sick.
When I’ve had horrid bronchitis outbreaks, honey, whiskey, and lemon in hot tea did the trick — in just a few hours.
My allergist says that eating a teaspoon of honey a day actually does help with allergies.
He, of course, said it wasn’t as effective as allergy shots, but for those whom allergy shots did not help, honey was terrific.
Mr. mm had the worst allergies I had ever seen when we were dating and first married.
We moved to CNY and several things changed. He was away from the family dog, his mom’s cigarette smoke, and the city pollution. We also found a source for very local honey and he started eating it regularly on his toast.
His allergies today are a fraction of what they were. He had tried the allergy shots and was so sensitive to them that he could not get enough serum to provoke the right kind of immune response and so after a couple years , he quit taking them. But later in life, the honey worked.
My mom told me her mother’s cure all for what you got sick was a spoonful of whiskey in which she had horseradish soaking, making an extract, for all practical purposes.
When they were sick, she’d mix a spoonful of that with some honey and give it to the kids.
My mom said that it was nasty, but when you woke up the next morning, you were well. She said you also did not ever complain about now feeling well. Ever.
Yep. I always feel better after Wifey gives me a little “honey”.
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Har har! I’ve been waiting for that one!
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