What does honey do?

According to textual research, there was a record of "honey" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions four thousand years ago, which shows that the ancients had already used honey. Li Shizhen, a great doctor in the Ming Dynasty, has already recorded that honey is used as medicine in Compendium of Materia Medica, such as "invigorating qi, tonifying middle energizer, relieving pain and detoxicating, removing all kinds of drugs, strengthening the body and prolonging life after taking it for a long time ..." I won't say much about the pharmacological effects of honey, so let's talk about its edible and health-care functions.

Eating honey has many advantages over eating sugar: 1. People who often eat sugar will damage their teeth, while people who eat honey will not only damage their teeth, but also have a sterilization effect on their mouths. Honey is easier to digest and absorb than sucrose. The main components of honey are glucose, fructose and monosaccharide, which is convenient for human body to absorb directly. Honey also contains a large number of enzymes from the digestive tract of bees, such as amylase and invertase, which can help the human body digest and absorb nutrients in honey. Therefore, the elderly and infants with weak digestive ability, as well as those who have just recovered from illness, can get rich nutrition by eating honey. In addition, honey has a high calorie, which can quickly relieve and eliminate fatigue for people with high physical labor intensity or strenuous exercise. Honey can also lubricate the stomach and treat digestive system diseases, which is a good medicine for constipation. 3. Honey contains protein, which can not only increase human nutrition, but also become an important source of baby food when the cheese in baby's milk can't be digested and absorbed. Therefore, replacing sucrose with honey is extremely beneficial to the digestion and nutrition of artificially breastfed babies. Although honey contains a small amount of minerals, it is indispensable for human body, especially for infants: because human milk and milk contain little iron, eating honey can supplement it. Honey has bactericidal ability and can be used to treat trauma and respiratory diseases, such as skin rupture and bleeding from open wounds. Applying honey can stop bleeding and diminish inflammation. Honey aqueous solution can treat rhinitis and sinusitis, and can also promote calcification of tuberculosis focus. Typhoid bacteria, dysentery bacteria and enteritis bacteria harmful to human body cannot survive in honey. 6. Honey has the functions of calming the nerves, increasing intelligence and improving sleep, which is helpful for treating nervous system diseases and cardiovascular diseases, such as lowering blood pressure and treating anemia.

Since ancient times, people have regarded honey as a tonic, which is a natural green health care product in modern language. It has the reputation of "public tonic" and "milk for the elderly".