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 When we saw the variety of honey and other gifts of the apiary, presented by beekeepers for tasting, there was no limit to our surprise. And when they began to try all twenty-six varieties presented to our court and determine what kind of honey it was - linden, buckwheat, spring herbs, it was really impossible to find your way. Each had its own unique aroma, color and, of course, taste.
While we were eating honey, beekeepers told a lot of useful and instructive things about this elixir of health and longevity. They can talk for hours about the bees that have been working incessantly for millions of years; about the danger that awaits these workers in the current ecology and, of course, about the medicinal properties of honey, propolis, wax, pollen, milk, drone homogenate. Each of the beekeeping products has its own purpose, its own healing properties. And with regard to bee honey, its nutritional value and healing power cannot be compared with anything else.
The medicinal properties of honey, as the beekeepers told us, largely depend on the plants from which the little toiling bees collected nectar. What herbs do you treat when you have the flu or cough? Linden, raspberries, strawberries... Therefore, for colds and honey, you need lime or mixed - forest herbs, linden-raspberry or linden-cornflower, linden-phacelia ...
Tasting honey, we determined which one - and wrote down our findings in the questionnaires. In addition, among this variety, it was necessary to determine where the honey was not real (to complicate the task, the beekeepers brought such), because in the markets you can come across fakes.
"So how can you tell if honey is real?" - we asked the beekeepers. It turns out you need to trust your taste, and not a chemical pencil, as some think. Often the best meadow honey will react to chemical pencils, and today's artful counterfeit can stand the test. But best of all, get "your" beekeeper. A person feels the taste of natural honey with the root of the tongue, not with its tip. After all, it is not without reason that it is considered: a good honey is the one who tears the throat.
Did you know that honey cannot be heated to temperatures exceeding 40 degrees? Therefore, you should not add it to a glass of hot tea, as it loses its medicinal properties. You just need to drink a spoonful of real honey with hot tea - these are the best medicines in the cold autumn-winter period. And so that the aromatic substances of honey do not evaporate and so that it does not absorb foreign odors, it is recommended to store it in a hermetically sealed container. Preferably in a cool, dark place, but not in the refrigerator. Because at sub-zero temperatures in honey are destroyed amino acids and vitamins.
Honey has a bactericidal effect, improves metabolism, normalizes bowel function, prevents sclerosis, activates the formation of erythrocytes, helps with insomnia, stimulates the defenses. To relieve psychological and physical fatigue, it is recommended to drink a glass of warm (but not hot) water with 20-25 g of honey dissolved in it. For colds, three teaspoons of honey a day are used for medicinal purposes. For those who are engaged in hard physical work, go to training, the daily dose of natural honey can reach up to 1.5 g per kilogram of weight. Care should be taken to use honey for people suffering diabetes mellitus (the doctor should determine the dose). If you have an increased sensitivity to honey, then you need to determine which type of honey you cannot tolerate, and in the future, simply avoid it.
Novikova A.
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