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Age-old Remedies - Honey - Medicine in the Food Cupboard


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Medicine in the Food Cupboard

Today, many people are battling to maintain themselves and families
on limited incomes. But there is a simple product in the pantry which is a
medicine and cosmetic as well as a food.

Honey is mankind's oldest food and medicine but has been overpowered
by heavy advertising by the drug companies which now take $600 million per
year from the New Zealand economy. Honey is a universal medicine and the
other bee products of royal jelly, propolis, bee pollen, wax and venom have
specific uses that we will not cover here today.

Here are 22 tips from the world of apitherapy (medicine from bees) to
cut your doctors' bill. There are 750 different kinds of honey but any will
do for the following uses, although runny honey is the easiest.

Apply freely over burns. It cools, removes pain and aids fast healing
without scarring. Apart from being a salve and antibiotic, bacteria cannot
live in honey.


Bed Wetting

A teaspoon of honey before bed, aids water retention and calms fears
in children.


Sleeplessness

A dessert spoon of honey in a mug of hot milk aids sleep and works
wonders!


Hyperactivity

Honey is a mild sedative with minerals, vitamins, amino acids etc.
Replace all white sugar with honey. White sugar is highly stimulating with
no food qualities!


Nasal Congestion

Place a dessertspoon of honey in a basin of hot water and inhale
fumes after covering your head with a towel over the basin. Very effective.


Wounds or Grazes

Cover wound with honey and a bandage. Excellent healer.


For Fatigue

Dissolve a dessertspoon of honey in warm water or quarter honey
balance of water in a jug and keep in the fridge. Honey is primarily
fructose and glucose and so it is quickly absorbed by the digestive system.
(Honey is a unique natural stabilizer - ancient Greek athletes took honey
for stamina before competing and as a reviver after competition.)


Facial Deep Cleanser

Mix honey with oatmeal approx. 50/50 till thick and apply as a
face-pack. Leave on for half an hour then wash off. Great as a deep cleanser
for acne etc.


Poor Digestion

Mix honey with apple cider vinegar approx. 50/50 and dilute to taste
with water - aids digestion. (Also reputed to be wonderful for the joints.


Hair Conditioner

Mix honey with equal quantity of Olive Oil and cover head with a warm
towel for half and hour then shampoo off. Feeds hair and scalp. Hair will
never look or feel better!


Sore Throats

Let a teaspoon of honey melt in the back of the mouth and trickle
down the throat. Eases inflamed raw tissues.


For Stress

Honey in water is a stabilizer - calms highs and raises lows. Use
approx. 25 percent honey to water.


Anaemia

Honey is the best blood enricher by raising corpuscle content. The
darker the honey the more minerals it contains.


Food Preservative

Cakes with honey replacing sugar stay fresher longer due to natural
antibiotics. Reduce liquids by approx. one-fifth to allow for moisture in
honey.


Heart patients

These people are well advised to replace white sugar (sucrose) with
honey, natural fructose and glucose.


Hayfever

Chewing the tops of comb honey stimulates the immune system due to
minute amounts of pollen. During the season chew for 20 minutes a teaspoon
of bee cappings (tops) five to six times per day. Highly effective and
useful for asthma suffers as well.


Baby's Bottle

Four teaspoons of honey to a baby's bottle of water is an excellent
pacifier and multivitamin additive. If baby's motions are too liquid then
reduce by half a teaspoon; if too solid increase by half a teaspoon.


Teething

Honey rubbed on a baby's gums is a mild sedative and anaesthetic.


Osteoporosis

English research has shown that a teaspoon of honey per day aids
calcium utilisation and prevents osteoporosis. Essential from age 50
onwards.


Long Life

One common fact worldwide is that the most long-lived people are
regular users of honey. An interesting fact yet to be explained is that
beekeepers suffer less from cancer and arthritis than any other occupational
group worldwide.


Migraine

Use a dessertspoon of honey dissolved in half a glass of warm water.
Sip at start of attack. If necessary repeat in 20 minutes. Always effective
(so tip goes) as migraine is stress related.


Conjunctivitis (pus in the eye)

Honey dissolved in equal quantity of warm water. Apply when cooled as
lotion or eye bath.


COUGH MIXTURE
6 ozs liquid honey
2 ozs glycerine
Juice of 2 lemons
Mix well. Bottle and cork firmly. Use as required


Keep honey in first aid cupboard for emergency bums etc and another
in the kitchen cupboard.

Those interested in a more scientific explanation can refer to Kaye
M. Russell's 1983 MSc thesis, Waikato University, "Antibiotic qualities of
NZ honeys" - a NZ explanation of knowledge long-buried and available through
the public library on request.



Article kindly supplied by J.P. Welten, Maroa Apiaries, Taupo.

MarkJ www.thehoneyhouse.net