One of the most valuable varieties among bee product lovers is forest honey. A large variety of melliferous plants allows you to get a product with unique taste and medicinal qualities.
What is forest honey
Even in ancient times, people used honey collected by wild bees in the forest. Then flight-control began to develop, when these beneficial insects began to be bred in the hollows of trees. Honey obtained in this way became known as bead. It is unique in that human intervention in the activity of a bee in this case is completely excluded. Today there are only a few apiaries in the country. Most often, hives are simply exposed for the whole summer in the forest, cleaning up after the end of the season. Honey collected from herbs is significantly different from usual in many respects. It has a unique aroma and a wide range of colors - from light golden to dark brown. Raspberries, hawthorn, fireweed, strawberries, clover, linden, mountain ash, bird cherry and other useful plants give forest honey unique healing properties that have not yet been fully studied. No wonder it is called the elite.
Composition
Due to the variety of melliferous plants involved in the creation of this product, it includes a whole vitamin group: A, E, P, B1, B2, C, K. In addition, it differs in a solid microelement base. The structure of honey contains phosphorus, carotene, which provide the body's ability to cope with various diseases. Easily digestible fructose and sucrose give a lot of strength to combat them. More than a hundred active compounds contains forest honey.
Beneficial features
The range of therapeutic actions of this product is quite wide and is due to its rich composition. Honey from forest herbs has healing properties. It is able to have antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and even analgesic effects. Daily use of such a product helps to increase hemoglobin, cleanse the body of toxins, strengthen immunity, accelerate wound healing, improve liver and gall bladder function, in addition, the heart muscle is nourished and a positive effect on all systems is observed.
In its composition, forest honey is very similar to blood plasma, therefore it is absorbed almost completely, and all minerals and vitamins enter the body. By normalizing metabolic processes and restoring the hormonal background, this product helps to reduce excess weight. An essential indicator of its quality is environmental cleanliness - honey collected far from civilization does not contain harmful components and various impurities. It is the most valuable in quality of all existing varieties.
Use in traditional medicine
Even the Zemstvo doctors prescribed forest honey for their patients from a wide variety of diseases. The useful properties of this product give it extraordinary healing powers:
- Helps with rheumatism, joint diseases, osteochondrosis.
- It is a preventive and therapeutic agent against atherosclerosis.
- The presence of the hormone estradiol in honey helps to avoid disorders in the genital area (both male and female).
- High anti-inflammatory activity makes this product indispensable in the treatment of colds.
- It has a detrimental effect on pathogenic bacteria. Moreover, the latter have no addiction to forest honey, so the product can be used constantly.
- Normalizes the composition of blood, strengthens the walls of blood vessels. With the regular use of this variety, memory, attention, and performance are improved.
- Forest honey, whose beneficial properties and contraindications were known to our ancestors, is also a biological stimulant. It has the ability to slow down the aging process of the human body, prolonging youth.
- The antitumor activity of the product allows its use in the treatment and prevention of cancer.
Sweet medicine for children
Forest honey is no less effective treatment during outbreaks of flu and other viral diseases than any other. It is especially relevant for children - after all, tastier and sweeter drugs do not exist. It is very useful for colds vitamin mixture, prepared as follows: one teaspoon of honey, lemon juice, chopped walnuts and finely chopped dried fruit, mix thoroughly and give a little half an hour before meals. An effective cough remedy is black radish. Its juice, mixed with forest honey, enhances the effect of the latter. This leads to a very quick cessation of seizures.
Drops prepared from onion juice, to which forest honey is added, help well from a runny nose. The beneficial properties and contraindications of these products are known to everyone since childhood. Treating a cold with their help is an old grandmother's way. For its preparation, 3 teaspoons of onion juice diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 2 is taken on a teaspoon of honey.
Outdoor application
Beauty treatments with forest honey belong to the category of elite and are quite expensive. But using it at home is no less effective, so you should not give yourself such pleasure. Most often, forest honey is used as a face mask for cosmetic purposes. Useful properties, a photo of the product and some recipes for treatment with it can be found in this article. But in skin care, honey is also indispensable. A mask made from it is applied to the cleansed face and left for about twenty minutes. The skin becomes velvety, soft, improves its color.
Honey compresses have a therapeutic effect in joint and muscle pain.
Contraindications
Despite the huge range of beneficial effects that forest honey possesses, its medicinal properties and contraindications must be taken into account when using it. So, people suffering from diabetes mellitus, overweight and individual intolerance to bee products, it is not recommended to take it.