The correct way to take honey. First, the method of consumption, fresh honey can be taken directly, can also be formulated into aqueous solution to take, but never available boiling water or high temperature steaming, because of high temperature after the active ingredients such as enzymes and other active substances are destroyed bee. Honey is best taken after dilution with warm or cool water below 40 degrees. Second, take time: generally 1 to 1.5 hours before meals, or 2 to 3 hours after meals is more appropriate. Neurasthenia should be taken every day before bedtime. Third, the dose: as a treatment or adjuvant therapy, adults 100 grams a day, not more than 200 grams, divided into morning, noon and night three times, children's consumption of 30 grams of the best, but should depend on the age. Used for treatment, to two months for a course of treatment; as health care taking amount can be reduced as appropriate, generally 10 to 50 grams per day. In addition, diabetic patients are best not to take. At present, the market honey is divided into pure honey and blended honey, general beekeeping garden bee products stores directly sold for mature pure honey, stores sell blended honey, there is also pure honey, selling more than poor quality adulterated honey on the street, the price is cheap, the quality is difficult to guarantee. Some unscrupulous people even add some chemical raw materials, containing a large number of heavy metals and pathogenic bacteria, do not be greedy for cheap, fooled and victimized. Honey is different - which is good Honey according to the flower species have date flower, acacia flower, thorn flower, etc.. The color of the honey can be divided into dark and light. According to the crowd points by the elderly honey, children's honey. The different types of flowers have different aromas and tastes; the different colors are mainly due to the different types of flowers, light colored honey is fragrant, while the deep honey is heavy. But its main nutrients are basically the same. Nowadays, the market has developed honey suitable for the elderly, children and calcium supplements according to different groups of people. The choice of honey should be based on the target group. Elderly people are suitable to choose old age honey, calcium-rich honey, date honey. For children, children's honey and calcium-rich honey are suitable. Infants and young children are suitable for the selection of breastfeeding honey, ordinary people can choose acacia honey, pure honey and so on. China Bee Products Association Honey Specialized Committee provides. The benefits of honey, honey taste sweet and flat, "Shennong Materia Medica": "the Lord of the heart and abdominal evil, all shock spasm, and the five organs of the insufficient, beneficial gas tonic, pain detoxification, in addition to all the diseases, and a hundred medicines, served for a long time to strengthen the spirit of the light body, do not starve, not the old," it can be seen that it is a collection of the treatment of the disease of the two major functions of the strong. Summarize its role as: heat. Liang therapeutic Materia Medica" said "if you feel hot, limbs and not, that is, take a bowl of honey syrup, very good", because honey has a yin effect, it is used for false heat is appropriate. Recently used for rhinitis, sinusitis and corneal ulcers and facial ulcers. Tonic center. Honey can nourish the spleen qi, the ancient saying that its long service can brighten the ears and eyes, face such as flowers, strong will, light body, not hungry and not old, suitable for the hand of the weak body and post-disease recuperation. Therefore, the "Drugs" has: honey picking the essence of flowers, sweet taste, the main tonic, nourishing the five organs said. Detoxification. Can cure all kinds of dermatitis and vaginal trichomoniasis, and antidote aconite poisoning, antidote alcohol poisoning, modern scientific research believes that its 〈containing caffeic acid〉 has an anticancer effect. According to Russian reports honey is a good oral disinfectant. As honey can both detoxification and tonic, the ancients used to make a variety of poultices. The U.S. has used honey against a variety of fruit juices as a clarifying agent, the effect is ideal, and can maintain all the nutritional value. Moistening. Can cure dry lung cough. With ginger is better. Zhang Xichun that the nature of its "cool and smooth, for the clearing of the lungs to moisten the lungs, phlegm and cough of the key products"; the elderly loss of fluid knot, can be used in this water to run down. Pain Relief. Honey has the effect of relieving pain, Dr. Wei Changchun often used this with the plum stomach pills and other pills to treat pain biliary ascariasis, cholecystitis, cholelithiasis and so on. Honey can also be applied externally to treat burns, frostbite and various traumas. However, it should be noted that where phlegm-dampness is more prevalent, epigastric distension or intestinal weakness and diarrhea, honey should be used with caution. Modern pharmacological research has proved that honey has detoxification, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, moisturizing, antiseptic, protective wounds, promote cell regeneration and exudate absorption of many functions. How to consume honey 1, not with boiling water or high-temperature steaming honey, because unreasonable heating, will make the honey in the nutrients seriously damaged, honey in the enzyme inactivation, darkening color, aroma volatilization, taste change, eaten with an unpleasant sour taste. High temperature makes honey unique flavor and taste is damaged and volatile, antibacterial effect decline, nutrients are destroyed, therefore, honey is best to use 40 ℃ below the warm water or cool water diluted to eat, especially in the hot summer, with cold water rinse honey diet, can eliminate summer heat, is a very good cool health care drink. 2, the consumption time of honey is very delicate, generally are 1-1.5 hours before meals or 2-3 hours after meals to eat more appropriate. However, for patients with gastrointestinal diseases, the time of consumption should be determined according to the condition, in order to facilitate the play of its medical role. If honey is consumed one and a half hours before a meal, it can inhibit the secretion of gastric acid; if honey is consumed immediately after eating, it will stimulate the secretion of gastric acid; warm honey water solution can make gastric juice diluted and reduce the acidity of gastric juice, while cold honey water solution can increase the acidity of gastric juice, and stimulate the movement of intestinal tract, with the use of light diarrhea. Therefore, excessive gastric acid or hypertrophic gastritis, especially gastric and duodenal ulcer soup patients, it is appropriate to consume warm honey water 1 hour and a half before meals, not only can inhibit the secretion of gastric acid, but also can make the gastric acid to reduce, thereby reducing the stimulation of the gastric mucosa, is conducive to the healing of the ulcer surface; and lack of gastric acid or atrophic gastritis, it is appropriate to consume cold honey water and eat immediately after the patient. Neurasthenia in the daily consumption of honey before going to bed, can promote sleep, because honey has the role of tranquility and improve sleep. Consumption of honey precautions 1, should not be eaten with tofu. Tofu is sweet, salty, cold, can clear heat and blood. Eating with honey can easily lead to diarrhea. At the same time, honey in a variety of enzymes, tofu in a variety of minerals, vegetable proteins, organic acids, etc., the two are not conducive to the body's biochemical reactions. 2, should not eat with leeks. Leek is rich in vitamin C, easy to be oxidized by the minerals in the honey copper, iron and other ions and lose their role. In addition, honey can be laxative, leeks are rich in fiber and diarrhea, easy to cause diarrhea. Life, we often have to eat honey, but how to select, store and eat honey to ensure that it has a healing effect on the body? How to select natural high quality honey Often people fake honey. Some people stir together sugar, starch, flour and other ingredients to create fake honey. Other beekeepers place diluted sugar in front of their hives and the bees come to pick up the diluted sugar instead of the nectar, resulting in low quality honey. Therefore, you have to be extra careful when buying honey from individual beekeepers. You can tell if the honey is real or fake by grinding a drop of honey between two fingers. The real honey is absorbed by the skin, while the fake honey rolls around in small droplets. However, low-quality honey can only be identified by sending it to a specialized laboratory. You can't put honey in boiling hot tea. Honey over 40 degrees Celsius will lose a lot of useful substances, and some of the vitamins and antibacterial substances contained in it will also be damaged. In addition, drinking hot tea with honey can cause excessive sweating and increase the heart rate, which is not suitable for patients with cardiovascular disease. Honey Normalizes Stomach Acid Honey raises the acidity of the stomach when it is too low and lowers the acidity when it is too high. When you have low acidity gastritis, it is advisable to put a tablespoon of honey in a glass of cool water and drink it before meals; when you have high acidity gastritis, it is advisable to melt honey in warm water and drink it one and a half or two hours after meals. Honey helps with weight loss If you drink half a glass of water with a teaspoon of honey before a meal, the sugar content in your blood will increase, which means that your appetite will be reduced and you won't be able to gobble up your meals. Honey is a good tonic for anemia Not all varieties of honey raise the amount of hemoglobin, so people with anemia are better off consuming darker varieties like buckwheat blossom honey, which contains more than five times more iron than translucent-colored ones. Honey has a calming and sleeping effect If you add some honey to a glass of warm water or warm milk and drink it before going to bed, you will fall asleep quickly and sleep soundly throughout the night. Pine leaf honey baths are very effective in treating insomnia and preventing colds. Put a small bag of pine needles in the bath, add half a cup of honey to the bath water and wash for 20 minutes. Honey contains bacterial cysts that are dangerous to the health of small children. The digestive systems of older children and adults can neutralize these pathogens, while the organisms of small children still lack this resistance. Some adults should not consume honey. For example, diabetics and people who are allergic to honey should not consume honey. By the way, these people can develop itchy rashes, lumps on the skin and even vomit after consuming honey. There are two ways to consume honey: one is to take it with cold water, so that the vitamin C oxidase in honey will not be destroyed, and in the summer, it also has the effect of eliminating summer heat and detoxifying the body; and the other is to take it with lukewarm water, which can help to replenish the middle and benefit the qi, and will not destroy the various nutrients. However, in our daily life, many people are accustomed to taking honey with higher temperature or boiling water, which is unscientific. This is unscientific, as it destroys some of the substances and vitamins in the honey and produces an excessive amount of hydroxymethylglyceral, which destroys the nutrients in the honey. In addition to hot water to take honey will also make the sweet taste of honey is changed, produce a sour taste.