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 What is honey? This is the most complex biological product. It contains a whole complex of biochemical substances. They are necessary for the human body, since they have a beneficial effect on the vital activity of all organs, maintain health and significantly increase the duration of an active life.
This valuable product is produced by bees. Little workers fly from flower to flower, collect nectar and process it in their goiter. The obtained juice is put into honeycombs. The process of converting nectar into honey continues in them. The nectar itself is a plant excretion. But honey is already a natural product. It directly depends on the composition of the nectar. In quantitative terms, to obtain 1 kg of mature honey, bees need to collect 3-4 kg of plant secretions.
The great value of honey is that it is easily digested by the stomach. It contains a large amount of a mixture glucose and fructose, which is a source of energy. This valuable product also contains many acids and amino acids, vitamins, enzymes, bactericidal substances, maltose, sucrose, polysaccharides. All this is extremely necessary for the human body.
Honey is different, and it gets its name from the plants from which the nectar was collected. At the same time, healing properties are characteristic of all types of honey. For example, linden honey has a calming effect. It is great for insomnia and is very effective in treating bronchitis.
Mint honey has an analgesic effect. It also improves digestion and is used for gallbladder dyskinesias. But clover honey is good as a diuretic and expectorant. It is also very effective for diarrhea. Acacia honey is most often used as an antiseptic. Coniferous honey has a calming effect on the nervous system and also has a laxative and diuretic effect.
But honey in combs is of the greatest biological value. The fact is that along with honey, those vitaminscontained in wax. Mainly it is vitamin A. When wax is chewed, teeth are cleaned and disinfected, and the oral cavity is healed. The wax is not swallowed, but spit out.
This medicinal product is also effective for cardiovascular diseases. It normalizes blood composition, increases hemoglobin, dilates blood vessels, and improves coronary circulation. When applied externally, honey strengthens the skin, tones it, smoothes and soothes it. It is good for boils, abscesses and carbuncles. Its healing properties extend even to gynecological diseases. This is erosion of the cervix, Trichomonas colpitis, inflammatory processes.
When eating honey, one must not forget that it is still more of a medicine than an ordinary food product. Therefore, you need to limit yourself with its use. An adult should eat no more than 150 g of honey per day. The child should be given no more than 30 g per day. With regular use of honey, it is necessary to exclude from the diet sweets and sugar. In the event that honey is prescribed for medicinal purposes, it should be consumed strictly in accordance with the recommendations of the attending physician.
Shakin P.A.
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