Benefits: prevent constipation, nourish the skin, health and longevity

Drawbacks: drinking honey water on an empty stomach is prone to increase the acidity of the body, and for a long time it will be too much gastric acid and get gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer. It is recommended to drink honey water 1.5-2 hours after meals.

Note: If you have a bad stomach, it is best to drink it with 30 degrees of water, otherwise it is easy to cause diarrhea, gastroenteritis

There is a saying in traditional Chinese medicine: "Salt water at night, honey soup at night". It means: drink salt water every morning on an empty stomach, and drink honey water every night before going to bed.

The reason for this is: drinking salt water in the morning can dilute a sleep up very viscous blood, and a little anti-inflammatory effect, moist stomach and bowel movements; evening drinking honey water helps beauty and supplement a variety of trace elements. Therefore, a more scientific approach is to leave the honey water to drink at night, and get up in the morning to drink light salt water.

Of course, there are some people who have a hard time with their bowels, so drinking honey water early in the morning will help with the bowel movement, but it's still a matter of personal health.

My personal recommendation is to drink a cup of hot milk with a spoonful of honey every night before going to bed.

Because milk is high in potassium and honey is rich in magnesium. And studies have shown that potassium plays an important role in the conduction of nerve impulses, blood coagulation process, it can ease the mood, inhibit pain, prevent infection and reduce blood loss during menstruation; magnesium on the central nervous system of the brain has a calming effect on the brain to regulate the psychological, eliminate nervousness, reduce stress. Therefore, it is very helpful to women. In addition, milk and honey are rich in B vitamins, which have the effect of soothing and sleeping.

Nutritional analysis shows that honey contains about 35% glucose, 40% fructose, both of which can be absorbed and utilized directly by the body without digestion. Honey also contains a variety of inorganic salts similar to human serum concentration, but also contains a certain amount of vitamin B1, B2, B6 and iron, calcium, copper, manganese, phosphorus, potassium and so on. Honey contains amylase, lipase, converting enzyme, etc., which is the most enzyme-containing food. Enzymes are facilitators that help the body in digestion, absorption and a series of material metabolism and chemical changes. Honey smells fragrant and delicious, from the nutritional and health care value, not only is the nourishment, life extension products, but also a cure for the good medicine.

Honey has been used medicinally for thousands of years in China, and is effective. Ming Dynasty physician Li Shizhen pointed out that: "honey into the medicine of the function of five: clearing heat; tonic also; moist and dry also; detoxification also; pain also. Raw is cool, so it can clear heat. Cooked is warm, so it can tonify the center. Sweet and peaceful, so it can detoxify. Soft and moist, so it can moisturize dryness. Slow can remove the urgent, so it can stop the pain of heart and abdominal muscle trauma, and can be to the center, so it can harmonize all the medicines, but with licorice the same function."

In clinical practice, honey can not only treat gastritis, but also in the honey plus certain drugs to treat ulcer disease. Such as every morning with warm water 6 grams of honey, fasting or 15 grams of Salvia divinorum, 6 grams of wood, hot licorice 6 grams of decoction of honey, can be treated with gastroduodenal ulcers as well as a variety of gastroparesis. Why does honey have this healing effect? The original honey is a potential alkaline food, it contains manganese and other inorganic salts, has to promote the digestion of food and assimilation, thereby reducing the burden on the stomach and intestines and relieve the symptoms.

If you use 30 grams of honey, 15 grams of fried jujube nut powder, and take it in 2 times, it has a very good effect of tranquilizing the heart and mind, and can cure panic, insomnia, forgetfulness, and dreamy. If you add 9 grams of schizandra and 9 grams of cypress seed, you can also enhance memory and improve intelligence.

If high blood pressure, liver disease, heart disease patients, morning and evening on an empty stomach drink 1 cup of honey water, the above diseases have a certain effect. If you use danshen, shouwu 15 grams each, water decoction of juice, punch honey 1 tablespoon of internal service, the effect is better. With 30 grams of honey, 3 grams of salt, add cool water and mix well, every morning and evening to serve 1 time, there is a good laxative effect, especially suitable for the elderly, frail, constipated patients after the disease.

When there is respiratory pathology, the emergence of yin deficiency and lung dryness, coughing without phlegm, can be used for winter flowers 10 grams, 15 grams of lily, 15 grams of bamboo, decoction of water to take the juice, mixing 2 tablespoons of honey to drink. Can also be put in the hollow pear in the amount of honey, stewed in water, can be eliminated due to the dry climate caused by the dry throat, itchy feeling, and is conducive to the airways in the accumulation of phlegm successfully coughed up. Therefore, the respiratory system after the disease is cured, if you can often drink honey, not only to prevent the recurrence of old diseases, there is a strong function.

For growing children, honey is often their favorite food, honey contains iron and folic acid, often eat can prevent and correct anemia in children.

In addition, honey also has a moisturizing effect on the skin, because honey is rich in nutrients and diverse, and easy to be absorbed and used by the human body, for the skin to have a moisturizing effect, especially in the winter when the climate is dry, eat more honey to prevent skin cracking. A lot of high-level cosmetics, is refined from honey, it can be seen that it has a good protective effect on the skin. If you can take long-term internal and external external coating, help beauty, but also can benefit from life extension.