health fitness diet nutrition and lifestyle

Tampilkan postingan dengan label honey as medicine. Tampilkan semua postingan

All About Honey: Raw, Wild, Manuka…What Kind is Best for Health?

Photo Credit: Food Renegade

'I grew up on a working organic farm in New England that included a small orchard with apple, pear, peach, and cherry trees. By working the land and following nature’s seasonal cycles, I learned the importance of pollination early in life. After the cold, long winters, fruit trees blossomed and honeybees went to work. From an early age, I developed a fondness for bees and later, when living in California, kept my own backyard apiary.

Honeybees are amazing. During the darkest hours of the new moon, I would get up in the middle of the night and put my ear against the wooden sides of a bee box to hear the symphony of thousands of bees humming together. I also learned the value of propolis, pollen, and honey for health and healing.'

Read more...

'Royal Jelly is unique and its health benefits are tremendous in bees and in humans. This creamy secretion, produced by worker bees, is fed to bee larvae to develop them into workers. However, if higher amounts of royal jelly are fed to a select few larvae, a metamorphosis occurs. They grow to be 40% larger than their sisters, live up to 40 times longer, and eventually develop into queen bees.'

Read more...

'Honey, unlike almost everything else we consume in our diet, was intended solely to be a form of nourishment – albeit, for the bees. Only milk, to my knowledge, shares this singular biological imperative. But honey is far more than a source of sweetness and quick energy within the human diet.

It has profound medicinal applications, some of which are as follows:'

Read more...

'A man who spent eight years searching for a cure for a chronic eye condition was amazed when he finally found the remedy in a jar of honey which surpassed any attempts at healing with prescription medication.

Honey has been used for thousands of years, but its medicinal popularity fell when antibiotics became the go-to treatment. Raw, natural honey contains a variety of antioxidants and enzymes, and also has antibacterial properties, which can be effective both internally and externally. Raw honey has historically been used on the skin because it contains an antiseptic substance called inhibine which may prevent infection.'

'For ages, the anti-bacterial properties of honey have been revered and so it is little wonder that it has been used for medicinal purposes all over the world. If you have a sweet tooth but shrink at the empty calories in processed sugar, honey is your savior.

It's not only sweet, but "nutritionally quite promising," says Engeseth, an assistant professor of food chemistry at the University of Illinois.

Her research indicates that honey seems to offer many of the benefits of the fresh fruits and vegetables that nutritionists recommend for a daily diet.'

Read more...

'An Illinois beekeeper whose bee hives were stolen and allegedly destroyed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture has stirred up a hornet's nest with his questions on why the state did this, and most importantly, what they did with his bees. The state claims the bees were destroyed because they were infected with a disease called foulbrood.

But when the 58-year apiary keeper had his hearing—three weeks after the removal of his bees without his knowledge—the state's "evidence" had disappeared, leaving more questions than answers about the raid on the beekeeper's hives.

Some people, including the beekeeper, Terrence Ingram, suspect the raid has more to do with Ingram's 15 years of research on Monsanto's Roundup and his documented evidence that Roundup kills bees, than it does about any concerns about his hives. Interestingly, the state's theft targeted the queen bee and hive he'd been using to conduct the research.'

Read more...

http://plantedathome.com/2008/06/20/ahhhhh-summer/

'We all know the healing power of honey and it’s nutritional value as a superfood; now add a medicinal herb or flower and infuse it for a few weeks and you’ll have wonderful flavor plus additional healing properties. This post will focus on wild rose petals and lavender, but you may use cinnamon bark, cloves, rosemary, sage, mint, vanilla bean, etc…. bee as creative as you can! All herbs and most flowers have medicinal properties, it’s a delicious food source/external facial beauty mask.

God Bless the honey Bees… with all the current difficulties they are now facing, I honor and relish the major role these little creatures provide for us all.'

Read more...

Cinnamon and REAL RAW Honey; Whoever Thought?

'Honey is the only food on the planet that will not spoil or rot. What it will do is what some call 'turning to sugar'. In reality, honey is always honey. However, when left in a cool dark place for a long time it will "crystallize". When this happens loosen the lid, boil some water and sit the honey container in the hot water, but turn off the heat and let it liquefy naturally. It is then as good as it ever was. Never boil honey or put it in a microwave. This will kill the enzymes in the honey.

Cinnamon and Honey

Bet the drug companies won't like this one getting around. Facts on Honey and Cinnamon: It is found that a mixture of honey and Cinnamon cures most diseases. Honey is produced in most of the countries of the world.

Scientists of today also accept honey as a 'Ram Ban' (very effective) medicine for all kinds of diseases. Honey can be used without side effects for any kind of diseases.
Today's science says that even though honey is sweet, when it is taken in the right dosage as a medicine, it does not harm even diabetic patients. Researched by western scientists:'

Read more...

'Chances are, that stuff sittng in the plastic bear in your pantry doesn't technically qualify as honey. The FDA requires honey to have microscopic particles of pollen, which allow the honey to be traced to its source so regulators can be sure it comes from safe origins. But nearly all of the honey that's sold commercially in the U.S. has been filtered to get rid of that pollen. It could basically come from anywhere. And that means it's not honey, according to the FDA's definition.'

Read more...

Manuka Flowers (Leptospermum scoparium)

'Manuka Honey and Oil provide enormous health benefits. Knowing about them may save your life or prevent amputation.'

'Manuka Honey and Oil are scientifically shown to kill and protect against drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, commonly called MRSA. A number of anecdotal incidents attest to that fact. At this point, their ability appears to be through an entirely different mechanism than antibiotic drugs, so they may not result in drug-resistant diseases—the scourage of modern medicine, which is demonstrating the inherent flaw in the medical paradigm.

At a time when it's becoming apparent that all antiobiotic drugs result in drug-resistant diseases, it's becoming ever more important to know what natural methods of healing exist, along with how to develop genuinely good health to prevent disease.'

How to Make An Energizing Honey

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-health/images/2009-01/raw-honey.jpg

'Well at least I'd hope not, there might be a little beeswax in there but we are looking for pure honey. I bring this up because we are going to take a look at an article from the medical literature on the medicinal use of honey as a wound dressing. Modern Western medicine, well hates may be too strong a word, but really, really dislikes this sort of approach for a number of reasons.

First and most obviously there is no money in it. This is never openly stated as an issue in treatment but once one digs around a bit one finds that gee, there aren't any free or very inexpensive treatments. Secondly, and perhaps as much of an obstacle, as businessmen will often figure out how to make money from ice cubes in the arctic, is that it is difficult to standardize and worse yet the "active ingredient" is not clearly defined.'

'Much of the effectiveness of raw honey to help treat respiratory problems has been traced to the bee pollen and propolis suspended within it. According to a research report from Bulgria, they found the honey has anti-allergic, anti-inflammatory, and expectorant properties that insure the body has an immunobiological defense and give it the capacity to regenerate its attacked cells. Research on using raw honey to treat respiratory problems shows the following results: Of the 17,862 patients treated with honey, 8,836 were men and 9,026 were women. Most of the patients ranged in age from 21 to 60 years old.'

Read more...

More about the Health Benefits of Honey HERE

'Honey is one of the sweetest foods found in nature, but it is prized as much for its medicinal properties as for its rich flavor. It has long been considered a healing agent because of its mineral content, which can include calcium, copper, zinc, and iron, says dietitian Dawn Jackson Blatner of the American Dietetic Association. "Honey contains a variety of compounds, like flavonoids and phenolic acids that act like antioxidants, which can help us fight anything from heart disease to cancer."'

Sweet Medicine

'Since ancient times, people have used honey as medicine. Hippocrates recommended it for optimal health. The Egyptians, and many people since, used it as a wound treatment. Old texts heralded honey as a salve for eye ailments and a restorative in complaints of the heart, kidneys, liver and lungs. Today, honey with lemon is still a favorite for colds and sore throats.

Nowadays, we are uncovering much about the nature of honey and its actions. For instance, it really does help heal wounds. A randomized clinical study published in the journal Burns found honey salve healed superficial burns more effectively and quickly, and with less inflammation, than a standard treatment of silver sulfadiazine. Honey helps wounds in several ways. Its high viscosity deters infection; its sugar draws lymph out of the wound; it stimulates formation of new blood capillaries and connective tissues; and it’s anti-inflammatory and antibacterial. A recent study found that antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, which can infect wounds, succumb readily to honey.'

health fitness diet nutrition and lifestyle

All About Honey: Raw, Wild, Manuka…What Kind is Best for Health?

Health Benefits of Organic Royal Jelly

5 Amazing Healing Honey Facts

Man Cures Eye Infection With Honey After Medicated Eye Drops Failed

Honey Improves Immunity and Relieves Anxiety

Monsanto's Roundup: The Effect on Honeybees

DIY Infused Medicinal Honey

Cinnamon and REAL RAW Honey; Whoever Thought?

Most honey isn’t really honey

Manuka Honey and Oil: Antibiotic Action So Powerful It Beats MRSA

'Manuka Honey and Oil provide enormous health benefits. Knowing about them may save your life or prevent amputation.'

How to Make An Energizing Honey

None of your Beeswax - Honey in Medicine

Health Benefits of Really Raw Honey

Honey Love

Natural Healing: Honey—Our Old Friend Keeps Getting Better

Formulir Kontak

Followers

Blog Archive