When I moved to N California in 1971, I became an antihistamine addict.
My airborne allergies were plant base and carried on the winds.
Last November a medical friend told me to buy some local honey, you need local honey, and to take a teaspoon a couple of times a day. I take a teaspoon when I wake up and one before bedtime and one about 3:30 pm if the coastal or north winds are up.
I have not had an antihistamine pill/tablet since then with the exception a fishing trip several hundred miles away. I only needed one and the symptons went away once I got home.
My oldest son and his 9 year old daughter, who both have allergies and Asthma sometimes during or after a severe allergic event, started their local honey routine this July. They both have been basically free from allergies. Our 9 year old grand daughter recently ran a mile in under 9 minutes, the fastest of any 4/5th grad girl and only two boys beat her in 10 classes. Her Asthma before would not let her do this.
Honey works very well on open cuts and lacerations.
Honey was used on battlefield wounds as recently as WWI.
It's also hygroscopic, meaning it attracts moisture.
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I’ve always wished us WASPs could produce honey... I’m a paper wasp and all I can produce is paper!!!