Fragrant linden honey. Beneficial features

About 1000 honey plants grow in Russia . Lipa is the first on this list. Rather, not the tree itself, but its flowers, the nectar of which the bees so love to collect and turn it into linden honey, whose beneficial properties will help in the fight against many ailments. The duration of linden flowering is only two weeks (at the very beginning of July). In the same summer period, other melliferous plants bloom everywhere in forests and forest-steppes: meadow cornflower, field thistle, fireweed, motherwort, clover, raspberry, lemon klopovnik, cyanosis blue, and in the Far East, such as shporotsvetnik, two-color lespedia are added to these plants , angelica daursky, Amur saussurea. Therefore, after collecting the main tricks from the linden, the bees, while continuing to carry nectar from it, also collect flower nectar, and flower-linden honey ripens in the combs. Also at this time buckwheat is blooming - another important summer honey plant. This is shown in honeycombs with buckwheat-linden honey.

This product receives useful properties from linden flowers - a proven medicinal cold remedy. Linden honey and color have a powerful diaphoretic effect, which in folk medicine is used to treat and prevent colds and infectious diseases with fever. Monofleur linden honey - one that is taken only from flowering linden - is characterized by a pleasant aroma, a specific and sharp taste, light yellow or amber yellow. Fresh, only pumped out linden honey looks liquid and transparent-watery, with time it thickens and can acquire a fat-like shape or crystallize into small or large crystals.

This is not only a delicacy, but also a natural medicine. Linden honey is famous for its vivid taste and nutritional value (36% glucose and up to 40% fructose), the content of trace elements necessary for health. He absorbed the fragrant phytoncides of flowering linden, which immediately fills the air of the room where there is linden honey. The beneficial properties of the aroma along with the non-volatile antimicrobial substances of honey are used in the treatment of inflammation of the vocal cords and various types of tonsillitis (laryngitis, pharyngitis, tonsillitis), such serious respiratory diseases as tracheitis, bronchitis and bronchial asthma, tuberculosis. When using honey with herbal teas from medicinal plants, expectoration of viscous sputum is facilitated, as a result of which the lungs are cleansed, and swelling of the mucous membrane is removed. And linden honey has a beneficial effect on the treatment of other diseases. Useful properties of the product strengthen the immune system and cardiac muscle, resist inflammatory processes in the gastrointestinal tract, kidneys, cleanse the liver of toxins, exhibit choleretic effect, and have a mild laxative effect. Linden honey can cure purulent wounds, burns, cervical erosion. It helps women to preserve the beauty of the skin and hair. Ladies are happy to include this component in the classic recipes for home cosmetics.