What are the benefits of eating honey?

Honey is the most familiar bee product, which is brewed by bees after collecting nectar from plant flowers and returning to their nests. Its color, fragrance and quality vary with flower picking, season and region. It mainly contains more than 60 kinds of inorganic and organic substances needed by human body, including glucose, fructose, enzyme value, protein and 18 amino acids.

"Shennong Herbal Classic" records: "Honey is sweet and non-toxic, mainly benefiting qi and tonifying middle energizer. Long-term use will strengthen the body and prolong life. " "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Honey is cool when it is born, so it can clear heat, and it is warm when it is ripe, so it can make up for it; Sweet and flat, so it can detoxify, soft and moist, so it can moisten dryness. Its medicine has five functions: clearing away heat, tonifying middle warmer, detoxifying, moistening dryness and relieving pain ... "

Honey is sweet, delicious and nutritious. It can relieve fatigue, nourish yin and strengthen yang. Modern medicine has proved that honey can treat heart, liver, spleen, kidney, lung, intestine and other organ diseases. External use can treat burns, frostbite and moisturize the skin.

The series products are: plum blossom honey, osmanthus honey, litchi honey, longan honey, Baihua honey, mountain flower honey, dangshen honey, Lycium barbarum honey, motherwort honey, wild chrysanthemum honey (detoxification honey), Kuding honey and so on.

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Plum blossom and winter honey: Plum blossom and winter honey has a fragrant smell, and has curative effects on soothing the liver, relieving depression, hypertension, regulating the stomach and resolving phlegm, relieving cough and asthma, moistening the intestines, relaxing bowels, dry mouth and throat, moistening skin and caring skin.

Sweet-scented osmanthus and winter honey: Compendium of Materia Medica records that sweet-scented osmanthus honey can "dispel cold, eliminate blood stasis and stop intestinal wind and blood diseases". It is effective in regulating blood pressure, myocardial weakness, gastric ulcer, hepatitis and irregular menstruation.

Litchi honey: Litchi is known as the "queen of fruit" in Lingnan. Its honey is delicious, nutritious and moist without the heat of litchi. It is suitable for symptoms such as qi deficiency and blood deficiency, frequent urination, and dry skin.

Longan honey: It has the unique fragrance of longan, which can tonify the heart and spleen and replenish qi, and is helpful for palpitation, insomnia and memory loss caused by blood deficiency of heart and spleen.

Codonopsis pilosula honey: It is brewed with precious Chinese herbal medicine-Codonopsis pilosula nectar. The taste is sweet and the color is amber. In addition to the characteristics of honey, it is more conducive to invigorating the middle energizer, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and has auxiliary effects on spleen and stomach weakness, deficiency of both qi and blood, mental fatigue, women's bloody collapse and anemia. Suitable for people with physical weakness, stomach cold, chronic gastritis and anemia.

Chinese medicine honey seed. Slightly dark in color, sweet in taste and slightly fragrant with traditional Chinese medicine. It has the functions of detoxification, antidiarrheal, sterilization and convergence, and has a good auxiliary effect on deficiency of both lung and kidney, deficiency of both spleen and kidney, shortness of breath and phlegm-fire blocking the lung. It is especially suitable for patients with lack of law, lung deficiency, kidney deficiency, chronic diarrhea and dysentery, hemorrhoids and hematochezia.

Eucalyptus honey: a unique honey variety. This honey is light amber and has a strong fragrance. This product has the effects of nourishing stomach, tonifying deficiency, clearing away heat, invigorating middle warmer, detoxifying and moistening dryness, and also has a certain sedative effect. It is deeply loved by Europeans and is a rare forest honey seed.

Motherwort honey: it comes from the pollution-free medicinal motherwort producing area in the southwest plateau of China. This product has the effects of removing blood stasis, promoting tissue regeneration, regulating menstruation and promoting blood circulation, and is suitable for women with irregular menstruation and menorrhagia before and after delivery, which fully reflects their care for women. For men, especially patients with hypertension, coronary heart disease and nephropathy, motherwort honey is also an ideal health food for health care and adjuvant therapy.

Kuding nectar: it can clear away heat and dispel wind, relieve annoyance and quench thirst, and has a significant effect on acne and greasy.

Wild chrysanthemum honey: (detoxification honey) expelling essence and detoxification, expelling wind and clearing heat, diuresis and protecting liver, clearing lung and resolving phlegm.

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Traditional Chinese medicine is sweet in nature and enters the lung, spleen and large intestine meridians. Its main functions are clearing away heat, tonifying middle warmer, moistening dryness, moistening intestines, relieving cough, detoxicating and relieving pain. If you suffer from intestinal dryness and constipation, you can use honey and sesame oil to moisten the intestines to relax the bowels, or you can make suppositories and put them in the anus. If you are tired and have a dry cough, you can cooperate with raw pears and raw rehmannia to make a paste, which can moisten the lungs and dry the cough. Many traditional Chinese medicines for treating cough are made into honey pills, all in order to play the role of honey in moistening dryness and relieving cough.

Honey is also a commonly used external medicine, which can detoxify, resist bacteria, diminish inflammation, moisten, protect wounds, promote cell regeneration and exudate absorption when used locally. Clinically, it can be used to treat chilblain, frostbite, burn and scald, skin ulcer, chapped nipple, chapped hands and feet, dermatitis, vaginitis, cervical erosion, etc. When suffering from oral diseases, such as oral ulcer, gingivitis, periodontitis, stomatitis and pharyngolaryngitis, gargling with 10% honey juice can play the role of anti-inflammation, pain relief and deodorization, especially for children with stomatitis.

It should be noted that some honey is poisonous honey, because bees collect pollen from poisonous plants, such as tripterygium wilfordii, Cynanchum auriculatum, Gelsemium, etc. Honey with these plant pollen as honey source contains many alkaloids, which will be poisoned after eating. Poisoning is mainly manifested as fatigue, headache, dizziness, dry mouth, numbness of tongue, nausea, severe vomiting, diarrhea, watery stool, subcutaneous bleeding and hepatomegaly, which can lead to death in severe cases. Therefore, publicity and education on poisonous honey should be strengthened, and the place where bees are released should be far away from poisonous plants to prevent bees from collecting poisonous pollen.

Due to the widespread use of antibiotics, honey will also be polluted, and tetracycline will remain in honey. China stipulates that the residue of tetracycline in honey should not exceed 0.05 mg/kg, which will do harm to the health.

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Honey is also called stone honey, edible honey, stone pulp, white honey and honey. Sweet taste, flat nature, entering the lungs, spleen and large intestine. China's "Shennong Herbal Classic" points out that "long-term service will strengthen wisdom, and you will not be hungry or old." Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in Ming Dynasty pointed out that honey has five functions: clearing away heat, tonifying middle warmer, detoxifying, moistening dryness and relieving pain. It is a tonic especially suitable for the elderly. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Tao Hongjing called it "nourishing temper and eyes and ears".

Honey varies greatly due to different bee species, honey sources and environments. The main components are fructose and glucose, and a small amount of sucrose, maltose, gum and so on. Honey generally contains only trace vitamins, including vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin B2, choline, nicotinic acid, pantothenic acid, biotin and folic acid. Organic acids include citric acid, malic acid, formic acid, succinic acid, lactic acid, oxalic acid and tartaric acid. Inorganic salts mainly include radium, manganese, zinc, lithium, calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, sulfur, phosphorus, iron, copper and nickel.

The contents of protein, minerals and vitamins in honey are not much. It is worth noting that honey contains a large number of enzymes, mainly invertase, amylase, catalase, glucose oxidase, esterase and other enzymes, which are secreted by bees, especially glands. In addition, there are many bioactive substances.

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Pharmacological effects of honey:

1. Nutrition: Honey contains a lot of carbohydrates, vitamins and trace elements necessary for human body, which can be absorbed and utilized by human body after taking it, and can also promote the recovery of injured tissues and increase the weight of animals. This is a special tonic, which can make the body strong.

2. Antibacterial effect: The antibacterial activity of honey comes from:

A. osmotic pressure. Honey is a supersaturated sugar solution, about 70% of which is fructose and glucose, and the water content is usually only 15-2 1%. Honey can inhibit the growth and activity of Helicobacter pylori, and has anti-oral streptococci, 2 1 bacteria, two kinds of molds, Leishmania parasites and diarrhea bacteria.

B. acidity. The pH value of honey is generally 3.2-4.5, and such a low pH value has an inhibitory effect on general bacteria.

C. generation of hydrogen peroxide. During honey brewing, the hypopharyngeal gland secretes glucose oxidase, which oxidizes glucose into gluconic acid and produces H2O2.

D. other bacteriostatic substances. Such as flavonoids and phenolic acids (caffeic acid, ferulic acid), terpenoids, benzyl alcohol, syringic acid, etc. After the biological activity of honey was removed by Bogdanov heating, the sample was separated into four substances: acidic, alkaline, nonpolar and volatile. The results show that the antibacterial strength is acidic > alkaline = nonpolar.