I use honey in my coffee, and it is fairly well known that local honey helps offset allergies. Just don’t pet the bees.
I think anytime you ingest a locally grown pollen, it helps. I have been growing all of my own herbs and doing pick your own and farmer’s market shopping for the past year. I have bought one box of claritin this allergy season (I should be on my third or fourth box) and my sinuses are not nearly as bad as they have been in the past. (Yes, I use locally grown honey too!)
Honey is good for allergies - - but it must be local honey, for it to have any affect. If you eat honey made 2 states away, it won’t help with your allergies.
By eating honey made locally, you are taking in small amounts of the same elements which cause alergic reactions. So you are slowing building up a resistance, similar to getting a flu shot against the flu.