Honey water can be drunk with either cold or hot water, it really depends on the purpose of drinking honey water. The main components of honey water are carbohydrates, so if you only need the sweetness of honey water, you can drink it with cold or hot water. If you want to absorb some of the enzymes of honey you need to soak honey in cold water.

From the point of view of Chinese medicine, the nature of honey is cool and warm, if you use hot water to drink it into the hot, easy to cause the body of hot and humid, so it is not appropriate to use hot water to drink. If you just want to take the effect of tonifying the middle, you can take it with warm boiled water at about 40 degrees. If it is used for detoxification and laxity, it needs to be taken with cool water.

From a pharmacological point of view, heating honey above 67 degrees will destroy the nutrients and reduce its aroma, the nutritional value will be reduced.

Generally speaking, the benefits of drinking honey with cool water include laxative and higher nutritional value. Because honey has some heat-resistant active enzymes and vitamins, so with cool water and honey its active substances and vitamins are well preserved, so the nutritional value is relatively high, while the benefits of drinking honey with hot water include sterilization, prevent the appearance of diarrhea.