Honey is a useful natural product that is used both for treatment and simply as an additional supplement to a balanced diet. Known methods of treating various diseases using this nutritious and healing agent, and there are various types of it, each of which has its own characteristics and specifics of use. For example, boiled honey (the beneficial properties of which are numerous) is known as a treatment for a number of diseases, and it is often prescribed as a stimulating recovery supplement.
Properties and applications of honey
Fireweed honey (the beneficial properties of this product have long been known) got its name due to the fact that it is obtained from nectar from a plant called fireweed or in other words Ivan tea. This plant is a grass with narrow leaves and lilac flowers, it is widespread in the non-black soil zone, can grow in continuous thickets in forest regions, along roads and canals.
It can be noted that phytotherapists and other specialists in this field in many cases of treatment of complex diseases use fireweed honey. Useful properties of this medicinal product can be presented in the following list:
- anti-inflammatory;
- bactericidal;
- restoring and enhancing immunity;
- enveloping.
This type of honey is used to get rid of the following diseases:
- inflammation of the lungs, throat, and nose;
- with wounds, ulcers and other skin lesions;
- diseases of the stomach;
- nervous disorders.
Healing recipes with honey
Boiled honey (the beneficial properties discussed above) are often used in combination with decoctions of herbs, for example, with angina, the following remedy is prescribed. It is necessary to prepare a decoction from the composition of such herbs: honeyfish, plantain and sage in one part, and wormwood - half part, this mixture (1 spoon) is poured with boiled hot water (200 ml). Insist should be about 2 hours, add to the resulting drink 2 tablespoons of honey. Take half a glass each time before eating.
For wounds and ulcerative lesions of the skin, it is recommended to make lotions and baths from the infusion of eucalyptus leaves (50 g) in hot water (0.5 l). This solution should be held in a water bath for about 15 minutes, then strain and add 2 large tablespoons of honey.
For the treatment of gastric ulcers, you can use a decoction of swamp dried mash (1 tablespoon of grass per glass of water), which must be infused in a water bath for about 15 minutes. Add a spoonful of honey to the filtered liquid, take 2 large spoons half an hour before meals.
How to choose honey?
In order to find out how to distinguish cypress honey from other types or from a falsified product, you can use the following information:
- Real honey, collected from cypress flowers, is transparent with a faint green hue. Its crystallization is slow, and when heated, this product acquires a yellow color.
- A high-quality mature product does not foam, and if you lower a spoon into honey and twist, the mass should be wound in the form of a tape.
- The presence of impurities in honey can be determined using reagents. So, is there chalk in the product, you can find out by sprinkling the surface of the mass with acid (citric or acetic). In the case of a reaction (foam formation), it can be argued that calcium is present in the composition of the product.
- To find out if honey was diluted with sugar, you can do a little experiment. To do this, you need to prepare a solution of honey in boiled or distilled water (1: 2) and carefully examine it for the presence of sediment and impurities. Then you can add diluted silver nitrate (a few drops), while the turbidity of the solution confirms the presence of sucrose in the honey.
Boiled honey (product photo is given in the article) has excellent healing properties. Using this product, various diseases can be healed, and at the same time it is recommended to use it as a nutritional supplement to the diet.