Honey has a good health care function of "nourishing spleen and benefiting qi in spring, relieving summer heat and detoxifying in summer, moistening dryness and smoothing intestines in autumn, relieving cough and slowing down in winter", and is a nourishing agent with good quality and low price. But some people like to use hot water to make honey, which is wrong.

Honey contains not only a lot of glucose, formic acid, protein, vitamins and inorganic salts, but also enzymes. These enzymes are active, and their activities will gradually lose at high temperature, and a large number of hydroxyl formaldehyde sugars will be produced, which will destroy nutrients such as protein, vitamin C and formic acid in honey.

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The efficacy of honey:

1, improve sleep

Honey is a good medicine to help sleep because it is a sedative that can act on the whole body. You can take a spoonful of honey before going to bed, add a little Tilia amurensis flower, honey flower, passion flower and Valeriana officinalis (one of them can be taken alone or mixed), and make it with warm water at 35 degrees Celsius to make a good cup of sleeping and calming honey tea.

2, detoxification slimming beauty

Honey contains excellent sterilization and detoxification effects, which can make the waste left in the body excrete, improve the metabolic function of the whole body, and make the excess fat accumulated in the body as energy to be burned. If the sugar in honey can be transported from the stomach to the blood, it can be turned into energy, which can quickly eliminate fatigue. As the blood sugar level rises, the feeling of satiety increases, and the feeling of hunger disappears.

3. Anti-fatigue

Fructose and glucose in honey can be quickly absorbed and utilized, improving the blood condition. When people are tired, taking honey for 15 minutes can obviously eliminate fatigue symptoms. Mental workers and people who stay up late, taking honey water can make them energetic. Athletes taking honey 0/5 minutes before the competition can help improve their physical fitness.

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