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Honey is the main product of bees. It is a sweet, viscous, transparent or translucent liquid. Honey mainly comes from nectar, followed by nectar and honey dew. Nectar is the nectar secreted by plant flowers, manna is the excrement of aphids and leafhoppers, and nectar is the nectar secreted by plant flowers. Bees suck nectaries of plants, sap of trees or sweet juice secreted by honey tubes of aphids and leafhoppers with tongue straws, mix saliva with bee mouthparts, temporarily store it in honey bags, return home, spit it out in the nest room and brew it repeatedly.
Honey is that bees suck nectar from the floral organs and nectaries of nectariferous plants with tongue straws, bring it back to the hive, spit it into the hive from the honey sac, and then repeatedly inhale and spit it out by bees, and store the nectar secreted by the honey sac mixed with invertase in the nest. Under the action of enzyme, the polysaccharide in nectar is decomposed into glucose and fructose, and the water content is reduced to about 20%, which basically forms mature honey. Up to now, people can get the finished raw honey by centrifugal action of honey shaker. From the perspective of food science, honey belongs to plant food.
Physical properties of honey: pure and high-quality fresh and mature honey is a viscous, transparent or translucent colloidal liquid with sweet taste and rich fragrance. Inferior honey is often bitter, astringent, sour or smelly. When the temperature is lower than 10℃ or the storage time is too long, it is easy to transform into crystals of different degrees. Different types of honey sources have different physical characteristics.
The main components of honey
Honey has been enduring for thousands of years, which is related to its unique nutritional components. The main components of honey are:
(1) About 65-80% of glucose and fructose can be directly absorbed by human body;
(2) Various amino acids, including 8 essential amino acids that cannot be synthesized by human body, account for about 0.3%;
⑶ About 0.06% of more than 20 minerals, almost equivalent to the content in human serum;
⑷ More than 20 vitamins promote human growth and metabolism;
5] A variety of active enzymes.
Health care function of honey
In Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen described honey as "clearing away heat, tonifying middle energizer, detoxifying and relieving pain". Modern Chinese medicine believes that honey can mainly prevent and treat:
(1) Gastrointestinal diseases: constipation, duodenal ulcer, colitis, infantile dysentery, etc.
⑵ Nervous system diseases: insomnia and headache.
(3) Infectious wounds, burns and frostbite.
(4) beauty.
Honey and obesity
Sugar is mainly sucrose. Eating too much sugar from food will lead to excess fat and make people fat. The components of honey are different from sugar, mainly fructose and glucose, and also contain protein, amino acids, vitamins, inorganic salts and organic acids. Fructose and glucose are monosaccharides directly absorbed by human body, which can quickly recover and relieve fatigue. Moreover, honey contains more B vitamins, which can convert body fat into energy and release it. So although honey is sweeter than sugar, it won't make people fat. As early as in Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, which was written before the public, it was recorded that honey was "long and strong, but not old." The so-called "intellectual fit" is to lose weight.
How to take honey
(1) Honey in the mouth can treat pharyngolaryngitis, and it has a miraculous effect on getting angry after staying up late.
⑵ When taken in various beverages and foods, the fragrance is elegant and the taste is sweet, but the temperature should not exceed 60 degrees.
(3) Taking concentrated honey after drinking can accelerate the decomposition of alcohol, eliminate headache after drinking and reduce the damage of alcohol to the liver.
(4) coating lips with honey can prevent the corners of the mouth from rotting; Using honey as a mask can make the skin delicate, smooth and elastic.
The dishes cooked and baked with honey instead of white sugar have good flavor, color and nutrition. In particular, jujube nectar is used in roast chicken and roast duck with golden color and unique flavor. Just try it.
[6] Taking honey half an hour before meals can stimulate gastric acid secretion, so it is advisable to take it before meals because of atrophic gastritis (lack of gastric acid). On the other hand, taking honey two to three hours after meals can inhibit the secretion of gastric acid. If you have hypertrophic gastritis (hyperacidity), you should take it after meals.
A complete collection of various honey effects
(1) Baihua honey is collected among hundreds of flowers, collecting the essence of flowers and the complete works of flowers. Sweet and moist, nutritious and nourishing, it has the effects of clearing away heat, nourishing the middle energizer, detoxifying and moistening dryness, and astringing honey. It is a traditional honey variety.
⑵ Winter honey comes from nectar, a unique Chinese medicine tree species in Lingnan in winter, so it is commonly known as "winter honey". Light amber color, easy crystallization, excellent texture, sweet and slightly bitter taste. In addition to clearing away heat, invigorating the middle energizer, detoxifying and moistening dryness, honey also has the effects of sweating and relieving exterior syndrome, expelling wind and removing dampness, and has a good auxiliary effect on colds, fever, sore throat and rheumatic joint pain. It is a honey variety with Chinese medicine characteristics and is deeply loved by people in Southeast Asia.
(3) Longan honey is a unique honey variety in South China, which has the aroma of longan. This product is beneficial to the heart and spleen with longan, invigorating qi and nourishing blood, nourishing blood and calming the nerves, stimulating appetite and strengthening the spleen, clearing away heat and moistening dryness, caring skin and nourishing the middle energizer. Especially suitable for women.
(4) The south is rich in litchi honey, and litchi is known as the "king of fruits". Litchi honey is collected from the nectar of litchi stamens, which is sweet and slightly sour. It has the special effects of promoting fluid production, nourishing blood, regulating qi, tonifying middle energizer and moistening dryness, which not only moistens honey, but also has the dryness and heat of litchi. It is a unique honey seed in Lingnan and a special honey for distant relatives and friends to be Lingnan people.
5] linden honey is a unique honey variety in Northeast China. Honey is light amber in color, rich in fragrance and easy to crystallize. This product has the effects of nourishing stomach, tonifying deficiency, clearing away heat, invigorating middle warmer, detoxifying and moistening dryness, and has a certain sedative effect. It is deeply loved by Europeans and is a rare forest honey seed.
Milk vetch honey, also known as safflower honey or grass seed honey, is the main honey variety in southern China in spring. It has a natural fresh and pleasant grass fragrance, sweet but not greasy, fresh and clean, sweet, and the color is light amber. This product has the special effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, dispelling pathogenic wind, improving eyesight, nourishing the middle warmer, moistening dryness, reducing swelling and promoting diuresis. It has a certain auxiliary effect on wind phlegm cough, sore throat and fire hemorrhoids. It is a good health care product for people with exuberant deficiency fire.
Once, Sophora japonica honey was a kind of spring honey. The water is white and transparent, the texture is sticky, and it is not easy to crystallize; There is a faint scent of Sophora japonica, sweet and fresh, and the fragrance is palatable. This product has the effects of eliminating dampness and diuresis, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and can maintain the normal resistance of capillaries and lower blood pressure, and can be used for preventing apoplexy. At the same time, it also has the effects of clearing heat, tonifying middle warmer, detoxifying and moistening dryness. It is the top grade of honey, which is more suitable for the health care of cardiovascular patients.
(8) The rare honey seeds of osmanthus fragrans are collected from wild osmanthus fragrans nectar that blooms and secretes honey in winter in the deep mountain forest. The fragrance is rich and moist, pure and elegant, the taste is fresh and clean, sweet but not greasy, the color is white and transparent, and the crystallization is delicate. Known as the "king of honey". Osmanthus fragrans is also a valuable Chinese herbal medicine. According to the dictionary of traditional Chinese medicine, osmanthus fragrans "dispel wind and remove dampness, cure joint pain ..." Its effective component stevioside has been proved to have good nutrition and health care effects. Sweet-scented osmanthus honey also has the functions of clearing away heat, tonifying middle energizer, detoxifying and moistening dryness, and is deeply loved by people at home and abroad. In ancient times, it was a tribute to the palace.
(9) Coptis chinensis honey is the nectar of Coptis chinensis collected from Chinese herbal medicine nature reserve. It inherits the medicinal properties of Rhizoma Coptidis and the characteristics of honey, which not only has the health and nutritional value of natural honey, but also has the medicinal effect of this precious Chinese medicine. Coptis chinensis honey is yellowish in color and has a special fragrance; Sweet and bitter, sweet but not greasy. It can be said that the good medicine is not bitter, but the effect is still the same. This product has the unique effects of clearing away heat, eliminating dampness, purging fire, detoxicating, resisting bacteria and diminishing inflammation, and has the effects of calming the heart, cooling and removing fire. It is especially suitable for dietotherapy and health care for people with excessive alcohol and tobacco, strong heart and upset.
⑽ Chinese gallnut honey Chinese medicine honey seed. Galla chinensis nectar collected from astringent intestines to stop diarrhea is slightly dark in color, sweet in taste and slightly fragrant with traditional Chinese medicine. This product has the effects of detoxification, antidiarrheal, sterilization and astringency, and has a good auxiliary treatment effect on deficiency of both lung and kidney, deficiency of both spleen and kidney, shortness of breath and phlegm-fire blocking the lung. It is especially suitable for patients with physical weakness, lung deficiency, kidney deficiency, chronic diarrhea and dysentery, hemorrhoids and hematochezia.
⑾ Pogostemon cablin honey is brewed by bees from the nectar of Pogostemon cablin, a rare wild Chinese medicine. Honey is amber, with a unique smell and the aroma of traditional Chinese medicine. Because the ingredients and medicinal properties of Pogostemon cablin honey are inherited from the Chinese herbal medicine Pogostemon cablin, this product is not only generally suitable for nutrition and health care, but also has a good auxiliary role in relieving summer heat and dampness, gastrointestinal discomfort, nausea and vomiting, clearing heat and detoxifying. It is an ideal dietotherapy health product for people with poor gastrointestinal function, dyspepsia and weak constitution.
⑿ Orange honey is collected from the nectar of citrus, with light yellow color, rich orange blossom aroma, sweet and slightly sour taste, fresh and clean, and refreshing. This product has the effects of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, sobering up and diuresis, reducing qi after eating, benefiting stomach heat and toxic substances, and relieving restlessness and sobering up. At the same time, it also has the effects of beauty beauty, resolving phlegm and resolving hard mass, nourishing the middle energizer and moistening dryness. This product is suitable for patients with spleen and stomach dryness, abdominal distension and gastrointestinal diseases.
[13] Salvia Miltiorrhiza honey is a pure natural honey brewed by bees from the flowers of Salvia Miltiorrhiza, which has the effect of "promoting blood production and eliminating pathogenic blood". It is suitable for women with irregular menstruation and menstrual abdominal pain. In addition, Salvia Miltiorrhiza honey can also "cool blood and reduce swelling, clear heart and remove troubles".
[14] Astragalus membranaceus honey Astragalus membranaceus is one of the essential drugs for treating qi deficiency. Astragalus honey is collected from natural Astragalus flowers, which has the effects of benefiting middle warmer, consolidating exterior, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, thus playing the roles of ascending middle warmer, diuresis, relieving nephritis, lowering blood pressure and strengthening body. It can replenish qi and consolidate exterior, and is suitable for patients with qi deficiency and hyperhidrosis.
⒂ Platycodon grandiflorum honey Platycodon grandiflorum is the main medicine for treating sore throat, which has the effects of dispersing lung qi, eliminating pathogenic factors, resolving phlegm and expelling pus. Platycodon grandiflorum honey comes from natural platycodon grandiflorum nectar, which not only has the effects of clearing away heat, nourishing the middle warmer and moistening dryness, but also is a good food therapy and health care product suitable for exogenous cough, chest tightness and excessive phlegm.
[16] loquat honey is brewed by diligent bees collecting nectar from flowering loquat. Sweet and catchy, the top grade in honey juice. Loquat honey has the effect of "mainly treating cough due to lung heat, vomiting due to stomach heat, hot annoyance and thirst", and has the health care effects of clearing away lung heat and resolving phlegm, relieving cough and asthma, and is an ideal choice for patients with cold, cough and excessive phlegm.
⒄ Codonopsis pilosula honey is a precious Chinese herbal medicine-Codonopsis pilosula nectar brewed by bees, with a sweet taste and amber color. In addition to the characteristics of honey, it is more conducive to invigorating the middle energizer, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. It has auxiliary effects on spleen and stomach weakness, deficiency of both qi and blood, mental fatigue, metrorrhagia and anemia in women, and is suitable for people with physical weakness, stomach cold, chronic gastritis and anemia.
⒅ Motherwort honey comes from the pollution-free medicinal motherwort producing area in the southwest plateau of China. This product has the effects of removing blood stasis, promoting tissue regeneration, regulating menstruation and promoting blood circulation. It is suitable for women with irregular menstruation, menorrhagia, prenatal and postpartum, and fully reflects the care for women. For men, especially patients with hypertension, coronary heart disease and nephropathy, motherwort honey is also an ideal health food for health care and adjuvant therapy.
Lycium barbarum honey comes from the main producing area of Lycium barbarum, a valuable Chinese medicine, and is brewed by bees collecting Lycium barbarum nectar. This product not only has the traditional nutritional and health care value of honey, but also is the essence of Lycium barbarum, and has the effects of tonifying kidney, replenishing essence, nourishing liver, improving eyesight, moistening lung and relieving cough. This product is suitable for people with deficiency of both qi and blood, hypertension, physical weakness, decreased vision, anemia, chronic hepatitis, toxic or metabolic liver disease, liver dysfunction caused by biliary system, etc. It is especially suitable for men with kidney deficiency, lumbago, nocturnal emission and busy work.
⒇ The nectar of this dish is light amber, slightly turbid, with the aroma of rape flowers, slightly spicy, and the spicy taste is reduced after long storage, and the taste is sweet and moist; Easy to crystallize, milky white after crystallization, fine or oily crystals. Warm in nature, it has the functions of promoting blood circulation, breaking qi, reducing swelling, dispersing stagnation and enriching blood.
Identify the quality of honey
At present, the market is often full of fake honey, mainly made of high fructose corn syrup, which is very light in color and extremely clear and transparent. But compared with honey, it has a single nutrition and no vitamins, amino acids, minerals and active enzymes. Consumers should choose specialty stores to buy products with guaranteed quality. Consumers can simply identify the quality of honey by the following methods:
⑴ Taste and smell: Consumers can taste and smell it when buying to see if honey has oily or peculiar smell. Generally, honey with good quality tastes sweet and has a faint smell consistent with floral fragrance. If the aroma is too strong, it may be mixed with essence, while the honey with poor quality is bitter, astringent, sour and even smelly.
⑵ Identification of water content: Good quality honey has less water content and high viscosity; Stir the honey with a sterilized glass rod, and the honey will be filiform and extremely long. Honey with high water content feels very thin.
Honey with crystals
Honey crystallization is a purely physical phenomenon, not a chemical change, so it has no effect on its nutritional components and edible value, and crystallized honey is more convenient to store and transport. Crystallized honey often makes consumers mistake it for "molasses". Although destroying the crystal nucleus by high temperature heating can prevent honey from crystallizing, I don't know that the nutritional components of honey have been destroyed and there are no active substances!
But there is indeed honey mixed with white sugar on the market. The difference is that sugar crystals are hard and difficult to melt by hand, while honey crystals are easy to melt by hand.
Light honey and dark honey
The color of honey is directly related to the types of honey sources collected by bees, and the color of honey brewed by nectar from different honey sources is obviously different. Some people think that the lighter the color, the better the quality of honey. It is true that acacia honey and some light-colored honey are fragrant and of good quality, but longan honey, dangshen honey and jujube honey are also excellent honey. According to nutrition experts, the content of protein and iron in dark honey is about 50% higher than that in light honey. No wonder the British and Germans have a soft spot for black honey.
Identification method of true and false honey
One: Smell the single-flower honey, which has the unique flower fragrance of this plant, the mixed honey has the natural flower fragrance, and the fake honey has some sucrose flavor and some spice flavor.
Two: Vision
1. Look at the concentration of honey, put a chopstick in the honey and lift it vertically. High-concentration honey drips slowly, which is sticky and can be pulled, and can be shrunk into honey pills after being broken. False honey or low concentration honey is the opposite. Even if the silk can be stretched, the broken silk has no elasticity and will not shrink into honey beads.
It is wise to drop a drop of honey in the newspaper. High concentration of pure honey is hemispherical, so it is difficult to soak in newspapers, and low concentration of honey or fake honey is easy to soak in newspapers.
3. Take a glass of water and add a little honey. Real honey will sink to the bottom of the cup quickly and will not melt easily. When stirring slowly with chopsticks, there will be repeated phenomena of filar silk. If it is fake honey, it will soon dissolve in water.
4. Looking at crystallization, the crystallization of honey is related to the plant species and temperature. Generally, pure natural honey is easy to crystallize at 13- 14 degrees Celsius. Honey that can be completely crystallized generally has low water content, high concentration and is not easy to deteriorate, so it is a high-quality honey. Crystallized pure honey is twisted by hand, which feels delicate and has no sense of sand. False honey is not easy to crystallize, or some of it is precipitated. The precipitate is hard and not easy to crush.
Three: pure natural honey, sweet and slightly sour, soft and delicate, refreshing and soft, slightly spicy in the throat and long aftertaste. Although adulterated honey tastes sweet, it has a weak throat feeling and a short aftertaste when mixed with sugar or spices.
In a word, there may be some errors in identifying honey by only one method. A kind of honey can be identified by many methods at the same time. Under normal circumstances, honey can be judged to be true or false.
Honey sold in the market can be divided into dozens of categories, with different origins and different colors. How can I buy real honey? Here we teach you the method of identification.
Viewpoint: All kinds of honey have fixed colors. For example, linden honey is light amber, clear and transparent, sunflower honey is amber, and the color of mixed nectar is not fixed, generally yellow-red.
Smell: Real honey is sweet, fake honey is odorless, and honey mixed with spices has an abnormal smell.
Taste: high-quality honey is sweet and has a long aftertaste. Adulterated honey has no floral fragrance, some fake honey has the taste of boiled sugar, and the fine products have the taste of white sugar water.
Chemical examination: the color of the iodine solution of honey mixed with starch will turn blue, and the honey mixed with maltose will appear white floc when the concentration of ethanol is increased. Honey mixed with other impurities is inserted into honey with red-hot iron wire, and there is a sticky substance on the iron wire.
Cryopreservation crystallization test: Honey will become solid after being stored for a period of time at 4 to 14 degrees Celsius, which is a physical phenomenon of honey. Real honey crystal sticks to one eye with chopsticks, which is very soft and can't stick to fake honey. Real honey is pinched by hand, and the crystallization melts quickly, while fake honey has the feeling of pinching hands, and it melts slowly or does not dissolve. The real honey crystal has a low bite, while the fake honey crystal is crisp and loud. Pour out the honey and let it solidify a little. If it is true, it will form a hexagonal structure like a honeycomb, but it is not.
royal jelly
Royal jelly is a milky white or yellowish paste secreted by royal jelly glands after young worker bees eat pollen and honey. It is used to feed queen bees and bee larvae. Only royal jelly produced, processed, stored and transported at low temperature can be called fresh royal jelly. Only fresh royal jelly can retain active substances and nutritional value.
bee pollen
Pollen is a germ cell produced by the anther of the stamen, the male organ of a plant, which contains nutrients needed for the new life of the plant. Bee pollen is an irregular oblate mass formed by bees adding nectar and saliva to pollen grains collected from plant stamens.
Beauty and skin care routine
Honey and white vinegar to lose weight:
The ratio of honey to white vinegar should be 1: 4 when the daily diet remains unchanged. The specific method is as follows:
1, drink on an empty stomach 20 minutes before breakfast;
2. Drink immediately after lunch and dinner. (Note: When choosing white vinegar, it should be processed from rice, sorghum and soybean. And try to avoid chemicals. At the same time, it is recommended not to use fruit vinegar, because fruit vinegar is health vinegar, so it is better to lose weight. The ratio of honey to white vinegar can be adjusted according to personal needs. )
3, drink water before breakfast can add honey, eat a small amount of porridge for lunch and dinner. Most people feel relaxed and happy after eating honey for two days. After five days, you can eat noodles that are easy to digest, and then slowly return to your original diet. Honey can eliminate the garbage in the body and restore the original metabolic function of the human body.
Other cosmetic uses of honey
1, honey washes your face. Take fresh, pure, light-colored and hard-to-crystallize high-quality natural honey and put it in a small glass container for beauty treatment (it must be stored in the refrigerator in summer). Every time you wash your face, first wash your face with warm water, then pour a proper amount of honey into your palm, rub your hands together (if it feels too thick, you can dip your fingertips in a small amount of water to mix), and then massage your face in circles with your hands, focusing on the following parts: at the corner of crow's feet, massage by hand. Lift the forehead line for vertical massage; Circular massage on both sides of the nose, massage up and down the edge of the nose; Massage the neck from bottom to top; Massage up and down on both sides of the ear; Massage around the mouth in figure 8 or inverted figure 8. After massage, wash with warm water and apply skin care products. Stick to 1 week or more, and you can obviously feel that your face is white, tender, naturally ruddy, full of luster and wrinkles are reduced. After use, the skin does not feel tight, comfortable and natural, and the effect is particularly obvious after long-term use. Honey cleansing can also prevent skin allergy and dryness.
2. Use honey as a nutritional seasoning. Add honey to flour, make it into paste, apply it to your face when you wash your face, and wash it with warm water after 30 minutes. Honey is not irritating to the skin, and it is very effective in maintaining the skin.
3, honey can eliminate acne. After washing your face, dip a cotton swab in a small amount of honey and apply it directly to the acne. Use it before going to bed. Very effective. Honey contains a lot of vitamins, amino acids and various active substances, which can regulate endocrine, inhibit sebaceous glands from secreting excessive fat, improve fatty acid metabolism, improve blood circulation, enhance capillary function and promote blood to transport nutrients to the skin layer. Honey also has a good antibacterial and bactericidal effect, which can effectively inhibit and kill bacteria in hair follicles. Therefore, honey will not only promote the production of acne, but also prevent acne and make the skin smooth and moist.
4. Massage your body with honey. The viscosity of honey can prevent skin moisture from evaporating. Apply honey to the neck, back, forehead and other parts. Being skinned by the sun and gently massaging can improve immediately. Add olive oil or baby oil to honey, gently massage on the face, honey can penetrate into the skin. Unconsciously, due to the nourishment of honey, it will not only change from rough to delicate, but also be full of luster.
5. Moisturize before bathing. Maintain with honey before bathing. Before taking a bath, apply honey all over your body, especially on the soles of your feet and knees. A little more elbows and other parts. /kloc-after 0/0 minutes, soak in the bathtub and wash it again with soap or shower gel. After taking a shower, you will feel that you are covered with cream.
6, honey hairdressing elements. Mix a spoonful of honey with half a cup of milk. After washing your hair, massage your head with this mixture. After washing 15 minutes, the hair will become smooth.
7, honey beauty liquid. A, take honey and dilute it with 2 times of water, smear it on your face every day, and then gently massage it with your hands, which can make your skin smooth and tender, reduce wrinkles, keep it natural and rosy, and prevent new wrinkles. B, 50 grams of honey, an egg white, stirred and put in a bottle for sealed use, which can be used for about a week. Store it in the refrigerator in summer, pour a little on the palm of your hand, evenly spread it on your face, let it stand for half an hour and wash it with water, which can tighten facial skin, eliminate wrinkles, increase nutrition and clean and whiten skin. Once in the morning and once in the evening for one month, the facial skin is smooth, delicate and fair, and the effect is better after long-term use.
8, homemade honey cream. A, cook apples, mash them, add honey and cream to make a moisturizing mask cream and apply it to your face. Long-term use can make the skin clean as jade. B, 30 grams of honey, one tablespoon of lemon juice, half a tablespoon of sweet almonds, two egg whites, and a proper amount of starch can be made into ointment, which can moisturize the skin and increase elasticity.
9, improve the skin. Apply honey to the neck, back, forehead and other parts. Massage gently in the sun after molting can improve immediately. Add olive oil or baby oil to honey, gently massage on the face, honey can penetrate into the skin. Unconsciously, due to the nourishment of honey, it will not only change from rough to delicate, but also be full of luster.
10, increasing flexibility. 30 grams of honey, one tablespoon of lemon juice, half a tablespoon of sweet almonds, two egg whites, and a proper amount of starch are made into ointment, which can be rubbed in the morning and evening to moisturize the skin and increase elasticity.
Honey and diabetes
As we all know, diabetics should avoid sweets, which is also remembered by diabetics. Honey is famous for its sweetness, and it is generally considered that honey is a taboo food for diabetics. However, this is the view of an ancestor who did not study honey and diabetes enough. According to the research of Korea Bee Therapy Health Research Institute, the blood sugar of 25 diabetic patients and 25 normal people was measured according to time. Experimental results: As usual, diabetic patients taking white sugar, after taking sugar for a long time, the blood sugar level did not drop, and the blood sugar continued to be high. After taking honey 15 minutes, the blood sugar of diabetic patients increased sharply, and then began to decrease. After 1 hour, the blood sugar level returned to the level before honey, and returned to the normal level after 2 hours. The rising trend of blood sugar level of diabetic patients taking honey is similar to that of normal people. It can be seen that the glucose and fructose in honey will not cause the danger of high blood sugar level in patients with diabetes, but can also supply nutrition and energy.
The Diabetes Research Group of Beijing Hospital has also got a well-founded scientific answer in the screening of hypoglycemic Chinese medicines. Through the screening of 50 kinds of single traditional Chinese medicines, 35 kinds of traditional Chinese medicines have hypoglycemic effect, among which 1 1 has obvious hypoglycemic effect, and honey is one of them. Therefore, it can be said that honey (naturally mature honey, of course) is sweet but has the function of lowering blood sugar, and can be used for the prevention and treatment of diabetes (7). In fact, as early as the Han Dynasty, the holy doctor Zhang Zhongliang mentioned treating diabetes with honey. There is also a folk prescription of "treating diabetes with eggs and honey".
Modern research shows that honey does have preventive and therapeutic effects on diabetes. In the 1950s, there was a report of a single case of diabetes treated with honey. In the 1960s and 1970s, the observation and analysis of group cases appeared. In 1980s, the research on complications and the mechanism of honey action began. It is reported that the British Diabetes Monitoring and Management Center has used honey to treat diabetes for hundreds of thousands of times, and the cure rate is over 90%. To this end. The British medical community warned diabetics that eating honey is beneficial. Four professors from the Medical College of the University of Michigan published their research reports. They spent more than six years doing experiments on 587 patients, which proved the special effect of honey on hypoglycemia and diabetes. So, why does honey have the effect of treating diabetes? William Bo Tu, chairman of the British Diabetes Monitoring and Management Center, explained that according to his clinical data, an islet-like substance-"polypeptide -p" can be proposed from honey and royal jelly. This substance has been tested in animals and humans for nearly ten thousand times and has the same medicinal effect as insulin. He also stressed that the British Diabetes Monitoring and Management Center has written to the British House of Representatives, requesting that "polypeptide -p" be used to replace insulin widely used in China. An Indian scholar, Dr. Kehna, reported that the same "phthalein" was extracted from honey and royal jelly. And prove that this substance is as effective as insulin. Dr. Kenner also said, "In India, honey has been used to treat various diseases. As early as 1974. I found this antidiabetic extract, but it will take several years to be verified in laboratory tests (8). In addition, the study also shows that the liver plays an extremely important role in blood sugar balance, and it is an important organ to keep blood sugar constant, and it can adjust the concentration of blood sugar. The nutrients contained in honey have a good protective and nutritional effect on the liver, which can promote the liver to play a better role in maintaining the normal level of blood sugar in glucose metabolism.
To sum up, bee products have their unique advantages and characteristics in the prevention and treatment of diabetes: good therapeutic effect and high efficiency; It can treat both the symptoms and root causes, achieve a radical effect, and effectively prevent the occurrence and development of complications; Safe use, no toxic side effects, long-term use and no oral pain; The treatment method is simple and easy, and patients can accept and use it. Therefore, under the new trend of returning to nature, bee products will be more and more valued and favored by patients in treating diabetes.
How to use honey as a mask
Honey cucumber mask (whitening and wrinkle removing)
Take fresh cucumber juice, add appropriate amount of milk powder and honey, mix a few drops of essential balm evenly, then apply it on the face, wash it after 20-30 minutes, or wash the cucumber, slice it and stick it directly on the face, which has the functions of moistening skin, whitening skin and removing wrinkles.
Honey angelica dahurica mask (freckle removing and whitening)
1. Take Radix Angelicae Dahuricae10g and Rhizoma Typhonii10g, and grind them into fine powder. Add water and honey to adjust the amount and apply it to your face. After 20 minutes, wash them. They have the functions of wrinkle removal, freckle removal and whitening. They are suitable for patients with facial pigmentation or yellowish brown spots.
2. Material: 6 grams of Angelica dahurica; Egg yolk1; 1 tbsp honey; Cucumber juice 1 teaspoon; 3 tablespoons olive oil.
Exercise:
1. First, put the powder of Radix Angelicae Dahuricae into a bowl, add the egg yolk and stir well.
2. Add honey and cucumber juice, mix well and apply on your face. After about 20 minutes, rinse with water.
3. After washing your face, apply olive oil to your face with a cotton pad for about 5 minutes.
Then cover your face with a hot towel. At this point, the cotton pad does not need to be removed.
5. After the towel cools, take off the towel and cotton pad and wash your face.
Honey pearl powder mask
Prepare a small clean bottle, pour half a bottle of pearl powder, then slowly pour in honey, while stirring, so that honey and pearl powder are fully mixed, and be careful not to pour too much honey to make it paste. So the mask is ready.
Wash your face with warm water before use, then dip a small cotton swab into the prepared mask and apply it evenly, not too thick, just a thin layer. Wash it off after 1-2 hours to make your face smooth and shiny.
Red wine honey mask (whitening and nourishing)
Wine acid in red wine is fruit acid, which can promote the metabolism of keratin, dilute pigment and make skin whiter and smoother. Honey has moisturizing and nourishing effects.
Methods: Add 2-3 spoonfuls of honey to a small glass of red wine to adjust it to a sticky state, then evenly apply it to the face, and wash it with warm water after eight minutes of drying.
Note: people with alcohol allergy should use it with caution!
Honey Shuang Ren Mask (Freckle Removing)
Wax gourd kernel contains fatty oleic acid, citrulline and other ingredients, which can dilute spots. Peach kernel is rich in vitamin E and vitamin B6, which not only helps the skin to resist oxidation, but also reduces the damage of ultraviolet rays. The moisturizing and nourishing effects of honey make the mask more effective.
Methods: The seeds of winter melon seeds and peach kernels were dried and ground into small pieces, then mixed with appropriate amount of honey to form a thick paste, applied to the spots every night before going to bed, and washed the next morning. After three weeks of application, the spots will gradually fade away, so pay attention to sun protection during treatment.
Honey glycerin mask (hydrating)
A spoonful of honey and a spoonful of glycerin are mixed with two spoonfuls of water, and it becomes a mask. When in use, gently apply the mask to face and neck to form a film, and carefully remove the mask after 20-25 minutes. This mask can be used for normal and dry aging skin, 1-2 times a week, 30-45 days as a course of treatment.
Honey Tomato Mask (Whitening and Wrinkling)
Mash tomatoes to get juice, add proper amount of honey and a little flour to make paste, and apply it on the face for 20-30 minutes. Long-term use has the effects of moistening, whitening, softening skin, removing spots and wrinkles, and treating skin acne.
Honey lemon mask (sunscreen)
One raw egg, one spoonful of honey, half a lemon and a proper amount of flour, mix and stir into a paste, put it on your face to sleep, and wash it with warm water the next day. Insist on using it, and the sunscreen effect is remarkable.
Honey sauce
Honey can replenish nutrients to the skin and keep the skin elastic, so it is also called "nutritional dressing". Add honey to flour or wheat flour, stir it into paste, wash it and apply it to your face, and wash it off with warm water for about 30 minutes. Because honey has an odor, you can add a few drops of lemon juice to reduce the taste.
Honey Yogurt Mask (astringent pores)
1, honey and yogurt are mixed together according to the ratio of 1: 1, applied to the face, 15 minutes later, washed off with clear water. This mask is astringent.
2, yogurt, honey, lemon juice 100 mg each, add 5 capsules of vitamin E and mix well, apply it to the face and keep it 15 minutes, then wash it with water. This method can promote the shedding of dead cells and the regeneration of new cells on the skin surface, thus achieving the purpose of bodybuilding.