Honey is a sweet substance that bees collect nectar or secretions from plants and store in the hive spleen after sufficient brewing. What does honey contain? Honey contains the following various components: about 15 kinds of minerals, 20 kinds of amino acids, glucose, fructose, vitamin B complex, rich in vitamin C, 13 kinds of organic acids, inorganic acid 3 kinds, a variety of active enzymes, acetylcholine and so on. I. Honey and gastroenterology. Honey is a traditional gastrointestinal disease health food, it can lubricate the stomach and intestines, regulate gastrointestinal function, gastric and duodenal ulcers, habitual constipation has a better therapeutic effect. Second, honey and respiratory diseases. Honey can clear the lungs and phlegm, moisten the throat and cough. It has a good effect on respiratory diseases. Honey and milk drinking, but also to prevent and reduce the symptoms of colds. Third, honey and heart disease. Honey can nourish the heart muscle, dilate arterial blood vessels. It has a certain curative effect on heart disease. Folk prescription, there are honey and pomegranate juice mixing drinking, treatment and prevention of heart disease. Honey and liver disease. Honey can promote the storage of hepatic glycogen, and hepatic glycogen can promote the decomposition of toxins by the liver, so honey has a better effect on liver diseases. V. Honey and nervous system disorders. Honey is a good sedative and tranquilizer, so honey has a good effect on insomnia and nervous exhaustion. Sixth, honey and burns. Honey on mild burns have a good role in promoting healing, can reduce the dryness of the wound, anti-inflammatory and antibacterial. The benefits of honey for women The famous doctor Li Shizhen said: "the original honey blood function is good, often eat face like peach blossom", which is the menstrual blood loss of women, is a great tonic, but also a very good beauty food. Benefits of Honey for Men It can protect the liver and strengthen the body; when drunk, you can also drink raw honey to wake up. Benefits of Honey for the Elderly Prof. Fangzhu, an expert in bee therapy, said, "Honey is the milk of the elderly, and taking it regularly will help you live a long and healthy life." In addition, honey is a treasure in the kitchen; on the one hand, it can be used to prepare various kinds of cakes and dishes to increase the deliciousness; on the other hand, it can be used as an emergency medicine, such as boiling oil burns, stove fire burns, chopper cuts, you can use honey to apply first, which has the effect of relieving pain, disinfecting, and removing swollenness. Honey is good for the growth of school children. The Gifu City Beekeepers' Association of Japan proved in experiments on schoolchildren that pure natural honey can eliminate roundworms. Drinking Honey Before Drinking and Not Getting Headaches After Drinking Researchers at the National Headache Research Foundation have finally found the best way to relieve headaches after drinking large amounts of alcohol, and that is by drinking honey. According to Dr. Merle Damon, who was in charge of the study, "Honey contains a type of fructose not found in most fruits, which promotes the breakdown and absorption of alcohol." The researchers also noted that other ways to sober up quickly include drinking a hot beverage made from a mixture of honey, lemon, and tea, but overall, honey had the most dramatic effect. Honey contains more than 70% monosaccharides (glucose and fructose), which do not need to be digested and can be absorbed immediately after drinking, entering the bloodstream after about 20 minutes. Honey is a great tonic for the weak, those with poor gastrointestinal function, women in labor, and young children, and it is also a great drink for those who are tired after exercise, late at night, or at work. Detoxification of the four masters - fungus, pig's blood, green beans, honey In addition to water, the most effective and inexpensive detoxification food is fungus. Besides water, the most effective and inexpensive detoxifying foods are fungus, pig's blood, green beans and honey. Fungus grows in the shade of the damp environment, Chinese medicine believes that the most Yin Qi, there is a qi and blood, cool blood moisturizing effect, from its characteristics in the cool, black color can enter the blood, so it can clear the blood of heat and toxicity. In addition, fungus, pig's blood has a strong effect of intestinal slippery, "intestinal scavenger", often eat can be most of the toxins in the intestines out of the body. Mung beans are sweet and cold, with heat detoxification, diuretic and thirst-quenching effect. Therefore, every summer, people are accustomed to boiling mung bean soup to drink. Some people also use mung bean skin to do pillow core, it has fire and eyesight and lower blood pressure. Honey is cool and can clear heat when used raw, warm and can replenish the middle qi when eaten cooked, and the taste is sweet and soft with the function of moistening the lungs and detoxifying the toxin. (Compendium of Materia Medica) summarizes the effects of honey as clearing heat, tonifying the middle chi, detoxifying, moistening dryness and relieving pain, which is quite comprehensive. Therefore, the Indian people regard honey as "a good medicine to make people happy and keep youth". Honey has been regarded as an excellent food since ancient times, but due to the popularity of sugar, people did not often eat it. With the increase of international exchanges, the habit of preferring honey instead of white sugar in Western cuisine is gradually accepted by the Chinese people. Honey in the end how much effect, eat what good for the body? This reporter interviewed the Peking University Professor of Medicine, the Chinese Pharmacology Association Chairman Lin Zhibin. The role of honey has limitations The main component of honey is sugar, the sum of fructose and glucose accounted for 85% -95% of the honey sugar. Mineral content is generally 0.04%-0.06%, including iron, copper, potassium, sodium, tungsten, manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, lead, chromium, nickel and cobalt. In addition, honey also contains B vitamins, vitamin C, and niacin and pantothenic acid. Honey most of all serves as a nutritional supplement for the body. Although it is a bit more nutritious than white sugar, it contains nutrients that are more commonly found in other foods. In order to promote their products, some manufacturers exaggerate the effects of honey, using phrases such as "can enhance the human body's immunity" and "anti-tumor" to attract consumers, especially those with physical illnesses. However, these so-called functions have not been subjected to real and strict comparative experiments, and are all unscientific conclusions. It is perfectly fine for the average person to use honey instead of sugar, it is a very good source of sweetness, though one should not expect too much from it. Chronic patients, in particular, should stick to their original treatment. Honey is best for the elderly Generally speaking, there are no contraindications to consuming honey. Prof. Chi-Bin Lin mentioned that honey is most suitable for the elderly to consume, and it is very helpful in improving constipation and moisturizing the throat of the elderly. The most common way to consume honey is with water. Many sources say that honey should not be taken with boiling water, otherwise the nutrients will be completely destroyed. In response to this statement, Prof. Chih-Bin Lin said that the high temperature of boiling water may indeed destroy some of the active enzymes and vitamin C in honey, so you should try to avoid taking it with boiling water. In addition, breakfast honey smeared on bread or steamed bread is also a better way to eat, can completely retain the nutrition of honey. Some people buy back the honey, found that the bottom of the bottle has crystallization, suspected that the purchase of sugar-adulterated fake honey. In fact, the fructose in honey will precipitate and crystallize at lower temperatures, which is normal. However, the market does exist in the phenomenon of honey mixed with sugar, consumers buy or try to formalize the large stores to buy. Do not have to buy expensive honey Currently on the market honey varieties are very much, in addition to the previous common purple yunying honey, acacia honey, etc., there is a higher price of Chinese wolfberry honey, angelica honey. Should we buy these honey harvested from medicinal plants? Professor Lin Zhi Bin told reporters that, theoretically speaking, from different plants of honey, its composition and properties may indeed be different; but at present so many kinds of honey, their respective health effects have not been rigorously studied, and directly said that the honey from a certain medicinal herbs and the medicinal herbs have the same or similar role is not scientific. Therefore, when purchasing honey, you don't have to go for the high price. Children do not take royal jelly Talking about the more popular propolis, Professor Lin Zhi-bin believes that its role is exaggerated by the publicity of the business, is said to be able to treat many diseases, but there is no scientific experimental research data to prove. Moreover, propolis is difficult to dissolve in water, only 70% -80% dissolved in alcohol, to be made into a finished product is more difficult. Even if a person takes a certain amount of propolis extract, whether the gastrointestinal tract can be absorbed is also a problem. Professor Lin Zhibin on a variety of bee products are very in-depth research, he believes that all bee products, the real medicinal value of royal jelly, which has auxiliary therapeutic effects on liver disease, tumors, neurasthenia, insomnia and so on. However, Professor Lin Zhi-bin emphasized that parents should not buy royal jelly because they think it is good for their children to eat, because although the sex hormones contained in royal jelly will not have any effect on adults, but children taking it is likely to lead to precocious puberty. Therefore, it is fine for children to take some honey regularly and should not take royal jelly. Several simple ways to take honey 1, put in the mouth to take, can treat laryngitis, on the work of tired, after staying up all night after the rise of the fire has a miraculous effect. 2, mixed into a variety of drinks and food to take, the aroma is elegant, sweet taste, but pay attention to the temperature should not exceed 60 ℃. 3, after drinking alcohol, containing honey can accelerate the decomposition of alcohol, clear the pain after drinking, reduce alcohol damage to the liver. 4, with honey coated lips, can prevent rotting corners of the mouth, with honey as a mask, can make the skin smooth, delicate, elastic. 5, with honey instead of sugar, to barbecue dishes, flavor, color and nutrition are good. Especially roast chicken, roast duck with date honey its color golden, unique flavor. 6, half an hour before meals to take honey, can stimulate gastric acid secretion, so acute atrophic gastritis (lack of gastric acid), should be taken before meals. On the contrary, 2-3h after meals to take honey can inhibit the secretion of gastric acid, suffering from hypertrophic gastritis (excess stomach acid), it is appropriate to take after meals.