Chinese medicine often uses honey, especially in Chinese patent medicine preparations. Maybe some traditional honey pills, such as big honey pills, small honey pills and some big honey pills, are all made of honey.
Honey honey has the functions of invigorating spleen, invigorating qi, harmonizing middle warmer, moistening lung, relieving cough, and relaxing bowels, and can be used for regulating symptoms caused by spleen and stomach weakness, such as listlessness, weakness of limbs, anorexia, loose stool, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, tenderness, watery vomiting, etc.
In addition, honey can also be used to treat chronic cough caused by lung deficiency and dry throat caused by lung dryness. In addition, honey also has the function of moistening intestines and relaxing bowels, which can be used for intestinal constipation caused by deficiency of both qi and blood and insufficient body fluid, especially for constipation symptoms of people with weak constitution, and has the functions of benefiting qi and moistening intestines and relaxing bowels. In addition, honey also has the function of detoxification, which can be used externally to treat sores and scalds, and orally to treat aconite and aconite poisoning.
Babies under three can't drink honey. The hazards of drinking honey for babies under three years old are as follows: 1. Botulinum infection: Because the baby's gastrointestinal function is weak, if the honey contains botulinum, it may cause intestinal infection and even systemic septicemia. Because Botox itself is resistant to high temperature, it is not easy to sterilize, so honey often contains Botox, so it is not recommended to give your baby honey water.
2, affect the normal diet: because of the high sugar content of honey, if you drink honey water often, it may affect the normal diet. Honey is high in calories, rich in glucose and good in taste. After drinking honey water regularly, you may be unwilling to accept ordinary white water, which leads to reluctance to drink white water. Drinking honey water often, consuming more calories, other dietary intake may be reduced, leading to unbalanced diet and malnutrition; 3, affecting tooth development: 3-year-old baby is in the period of tooth development, drinking too much honey water may affect the normal development of teeth, should try to drink less or not.
? Contraindications of honey Honey is very rich in nutrients, including a lot of glucose and fructose. After intake, it can provide energy for human metabolism and relax the bowels.
However, it should be noted that people with weak spleen and stomach had better not drink too much honey, so as not to stimulate the gastric mucosa and lead to stomach pain and bloating. And people with diarrhea are not advised to drink honey, otherwise it may aggravate the symptoms. Diabetic patients and babies can't drink honey, so as not to raise blood sugar and affect physical development.