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The Health Benefits of Honey

Honey is truly nature's medicine. The word honey comes from a Hebrew word meaning "enchant." It has long been used as a natural sweetener but it has many healing properties as well.

Honey has over 181 components. The main components of honey are the simple sugars, gructose and glucose. Other ingredients are water, pollen, orgain acids, enzymes and proteins. This pollen makes honey a good treatment for hay fever. These tiny grains may have a desensitizing effect. (Honey used for this purpose must be honey harvested in the area the allergy sufferer lives in.)

The natural sugars in honey provide a healthy pick-me-up. Simple sugars are digested quickly and easily. Honey has a whopping 64 calories per tablespoon. (Sugar has only 46 calories.) Darker honey provides more health benefits than light honey.

Honey has many healing benefits.
Some of these are listed below:

  • restores energy;
  • calming effect;
  • disinfects and heals minor wounds;
  • increases physical stamina and strengthens people who have been ill;
  • helps sleep;
  • relieves indigestion;
  • can be used to treat cardiovascular disease;
  • may help respiratory problems;
  • a drop of honey in each eye helps keep eyes healthy;
  • helps heal chapped lips;
  • helps skin problems such as skin ulcers, psoriasis, eczema,and dandruff;
  • daily honey intake raises blood levels of protective antioxidants;
  • antibacterial properties and helps reduce inflammation;
  • increases good bacteria in the colon;
  • reduces toxic metabolites in the intesting;
  • helps prevent constipation;
  • helps reduce cholesterol and blood pressure;

    Some people worry that honey contains pollutants from our environment. Bees do act as a biological filter. But there is only a slight trace of pollution in honey. Why? If a bee comes into contact with high levels of pollution it will die before bringing the pollutants back to the hive.

    ***Note of caution: Don't give unpasteurized honey to infants younger than one year. About 10% of honey contains a type of bacteria that immature immune systems can't fight.

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