(A) skin care and beauty
When fresh honey is applied to the skin, it can moisten and nourish the skin, making the skin delicate, smooth and elastic.
Usage:
1, honey mask: diluted with honey and 2-3 times of water, applied to face every day. You can also use cereal, protein and honey as facial mask, and massage your face for 10 minute when using it, so that the nutrients of honey can penetrate into skin cells.
2, glycerin honey mask: take one part of honey, half of glycerin and three parts of water, add a proper amount of flour to make a mask, apply it to the face for about 20 minutes each time, and then wash it with water to make the skin smooth and delicate.
3, egg honey film: a fresh egg, a spoonful of honey, mix them evenly, brush on the face with a soft brush and massage. After natural air drying, rinse with clear water. Once a week, it has the effects of moistening skin, removing wrinkles, benefiting face and beautifying face.
4. When the skin is dry in winter, you can mix a little honey on the skin to prevent chapping, or you can use honey instead of anti-cracking cream.
(2) Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, promoting tissue regeneration
High-quality honey will not rot for several years at room temperature, which shows that it has a strong antiseptic effect. Experiments have proved that honey has a strong inhibitory effect on gram-positive bacteria such as streptococcus, staphylococcus and diphtheria.
Usage: When treating a wound, apply honey to the affected part to reduce exudation, relieve pain, promote wound healing and prevent infection.
(3) promoting digestion
Studies have proved that honey can regulate gastrointestinal function and make gastric acid secretion normal. Animal experiments have confirmed that honey can enhance intestinal peristalsis and significantly shorten defecation time.
Usage: Honey has a good effect on colitis and habitual constipation without any side effects. Honey can make stomachache and burning sensation disappear, and the values of red blood cells and hemoglobin increase. People with gastroduodenal ulcer often take honey, which also has auxiliary effect.
(4) improve immunity
Honey contains a variety of enzymes and minerals, which can improve human immunity after synergistic action. Experimental studies have proved that feeding honey to mice can improve their immune function.
Usage: Honey is often used to treat colds and laryngitis abroad. The method is to add 2 spoonfuls of honey and 1/4 spoonfuls of fresh lemon juice to a glass of water and take 3-4 cups a day.
(5) promoting longevity
Scholars in the former Soviet Union investigated more than 200 people over 100 years old, among whom 143 was a beekeeper, which confirmed that their longevity was related to eating honey frequently. The mechanism of honey promoting longevity is very complicated, which is a comprehensive conditioning of the human body, rather than simply acting on an organ.
(6) improve sleep
Honey can relieve nervous tension, promote sleep and have a certain analgesic effect. Glucose, vitamins, magnesium, phosphorus and calcium in honey can regulate the nervous system and promote sleep.
Usage: For neurasthenia, a spoonful of honey before going to bed every night can improve sleep. The calming effect of apple honey collected from apple flowers is more prominent.
(vii) Liver protection
The protective effect of honey on liver can provide energy preparation for liver metabolism, stimulate liver tissue regeneration and repair damage.
Usage: People with chronic hepatitis and poor liver function can often eat honey to improve liver function.
(8) fatigue resistance
Fructose and glucose in honey can be quickly absorbed and utilized to improve blood condition. When people are tired, taking honey 15 minutes can obviously eliminate fatigue symptoms.
Usage: For mental workers and people who stay up late, taking honey water can make them energetic. It is helpful for athletes to take honey 0/5 minutes before the competition/kloc-to improve their physical fitness.
(9) Promote children's growth and development.
Large-scale clinical experiments by researchers at the University of Tokyo show that compared with children who eat sugar, children who eat honey have faster growth in weight, height, chest circumference and subcutaneous fat, brighter skin and fewer diseases such as dysentery, bronchitis, conjunctivitis and stomatitis.
Usage: Sick children can eat more honey. Preschool children with rickets can take honey 30-50g, 2-3 times a day, which can improve the symptoms of rickets. Children with colds, drinking a cup of honey water twice a day, can promote the recovery of colds. Children with poor sleep should drink a cup of warm honey water 30 minutes before going to bed, and they can sleep peacefully soon after going to bed. Babies under one year old are not suitable for taking honey.
⑽ Protect the cardiovascular system.
Honey can dilate coronary artery, nourish myocardium, improve myocardial function and regulate blood pressure.
Usage: Patients with heart disease can improve their condition by taking 50-140g of honey every day for 1-2 months. People with high blood pressure drink a cup of honey water every morning and evening, which is also good for their health. People with arteriosclerosis often eat honey, which can protect blood vessels and lower blood pressure.
(1 1) moistening lung and relieving cough
Honey can moisten the lungs and has a certain cough relieving effect. It is often used as an adjuvant treatment for tuberculosis and tracheitis.
Usage: People who are weak and cough often eat honey. Honey can be used for adjuvant treatment of rhinitis, sinusitis, bronchitis, pharyngitis and asthma. Among them, loquat honey has outstanding antitussive effect.
(12) promotes calcium absorption.
Experts from the Human Nutrition Center of the US Department of Agriculture found that honey can prevent osteoporosis caused by calcium loss in middle-aged and elderly women. This is because boron in honey can increase estrogen activity and prevent calcium loss.
Usage: A spoonful of honey and a proper amount of calcium supplement can increase the absorption rate of calcium.
Eight wonderful uses
1, eliminate fatigue, especially after staying up late.
Of all natural foods, honey requires the highest energy for brain neurons. Fructose and glucose in honey can be quickly absorbed and utilized by human body, improving the nutritional status of blood.
Usage: a cup of honey water at noon.
2. eliminate the accumulated food after a full meal
Honey can promote the normal secretion of gastric acid, enhance intestinal peristalsis, and significantly shorten the defecation time.
Usage: Take 25g honey on an empty stomach every morning and evening.
Step 3 moisten the lungs
Honey has anti-inflammatory, expectorant, lung moistening and cough relieving effects, and loquat honey has the best cough relieving effect.
Usage: One Sydney, sliced with honey, several times a day.
4. Hangover
Honey contains a kind of fructose that most fruits don't have, which can promote the decomposition and absorption of alcohol, help to sober up quickly and relieve headaches after drinking.
Usage: Eat 50 grams of honey or some biscuits and bread coated with honey before drinking, and then drink honey water after drinking.
5. Let the excited nerves sleep.
Glucose, vitamins, magnesium, phosphorus and calcium in honey can regulate nervous system function, relieve nervous tension and promote sleep. Moreover, honey has no side effects such as depression, fatigue and distraction that other drugs have. The sedative effect of apple honey is the most prominent.
Usage: a spoonful of honey before going to bed every night.
Step 6 treat accidental wounds
The acidity of honey after sugar removal is equivalent to vinegar, which can make bacteria unable to survive in the wound. Even if there are no germs, the swelling and pain of the wound will be greatly reduced under its action, which can eliminate dead muscles and accelerate wound healing.
Usage: Wash the wound with 10% ~ 15% honey juice, and apply it with pure honey for dressing.
Step 7 soothe the skin
Honey is the most ideal skin care product. It can provide nutrition for skin, make it elastic, kill or inhibit bacteria attached to skin surface, eliminate pigmentation of skin and promote epithelial tissue regeneration.
Usage: add a spoonful of honey to a spoonful of grape juice, add flour and stir well to form a grape juice honey mask.
8. Protect your heart
Honey can nourish myocardium, improve its metabolic function, increase hemoglobin, relax cardiovascular system, prevent blood agglutination and ensure normal blood circulation of coronary vessels.
Usage: Drink a cup of honey water every morning and evening.
food therapy
Milk+honey is the most nutritious breakfast.
According to reports, German nutritionist Professor Gusra pointed out that the reason why honey has become an essential product for breakfast is related to its nutritional value. Clinical experiments of German Nutrition Society show that honey contains glucose, fructose, protein, enzymes, vitamins and various minerals. Regular eating can improve people's immunity and prevent anemia, neurosis, liver disease, heart disease and gastrointestinal diseases.
Eating honey and milk together can have the best complementary effect. Honey, as a monosaccharide, contains high heat energy and can be directly absorbed by the human body; Although milk has high nutritional value, it has low heat energy, and drinking it alone is not enough to maintain normal life activities of human body. With milk and honey for breakfast, the human body can not only absorb enough heat energy, but also supplement healthy substances such as vitamins, amino acids and minerals in a more comprehensive way, making people feel energetic all morning. Moreover, both milk and honey contain minerals such as iron, which can treat anemia. Their molecular structures do not resist each other, but can combine well, effectively increase the number of hemoglobin, and produce enzymes to decompose harmful bacteria in the body, enhance immunity and activate cells.
Beauty function
Modern research shows that oral or topical honey can effectively improve nutritional status, promote skin metabolism, enhance skin vitality and antibacterial ability, reduce pigmentation, prevent skin dryness, make skin soft, fair and delicate, reduce wrinkles, prevent acne and other skin diseases, and play an ideal role in skin care.
Direct consumption: honey has a strong antioxidant effect. Taking 20-30 grams of natural mature honey every morning and evening with warm water can strengthen the body, maintain beauty and make ladies healthier and more beautiful.
Direct application: honey is applied to the skin surface. Glucose, fructose, protein, amino acids, vitamins and minerals in honey directly act on epidermis and dermis, providing nutrition for cells and promoting cell division and growth. The usual application method is: dilute honey with 2-3 times of water, apply it to your face every day, and massage properly. You can also dip gauze in honey, gently wipe your face until it feels slightly hot, and then wash it with water.
Honey and olive oil mask: Mix 100g honey and 50g olive oil, heat to 40℃, and stir to make them fully and evenly mixed. When in use, the mixed paste is applied to the gauze, covered on the face, taken off and washed after 20 minutes, 2-3 times a week. This mask can prevent skin aging, eliminate wrinkles, moisturize and remove spots, and is especially suitable for dry skin.
Honey and milk mask: Take honey 10g, fresh milk 10ml, and egg yolk 1, mix them evenly, make them into paste, then apply them to the face, and wash them off after 20min, once a day. This mask can nourish the skin, prevent facial wrinkles and make the skin white and tender.
Honey bath beauty method: 500 grams of honey, fresh chrysanthemum 100 grams (25 grams of dried chrysanthemum). First, put the chrysanthemum in water to boil, remove the residue after boiling, and add the juice and honey to the bath water. After soaking the whole body for about 20 minutes, wash it with clear water, and bathe the skin every 3-5 days 1 time, which can make the skin smooth and delicate, and has the functions of beauty and fragrance.
Honey and ginger can effectively remove age spots.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the generation of senile plaque has a certain relationship with the poor circulation of qi and blood. Ginger has the effects of sweating, relieving exterior syndrome, warming lung, stopping vomiting, relieving cough and detoxifying, and its pungent and warm effect can promote blood circulation. Modern medical research also shows that gingerol, an irritating component contained in ginger, has a strong antioxidant effect, which can quickly remove free radicals and inhibit the production of lipid peroxide in the body, thus preventing or reducing the deposition of lipofuscin, and its antioxidant effect is stronger than that of vitamin E, the most commonly used antioxidant at present.
Honey has the functions of nourishing the middle energizer, moistening dryness and detoxifying, and can promote qi and blood metabolism and maintain the normal operation of qi and blood. Modern medical research also shows that honey also contains a lot of antioxidants, vitamin C and flavonoids, which have a strong "lethality" to free radicals. However, ginger has the function of dispersing stagnation, which is not suitable for the elderly and infirm who have been treating exterior deficiency and spontaneous sweating for a long time, otherwise it is easy to consume gas and hurt yin. The nourishing effect of honey can avoid the adverse reaction of excessive sweating after taking ginger, which leads to excessive damage of human vaginal fluid. The two are "complementary and mutually beneficial".
Dietary remedies: Old people can take 10- 15g fresh ginger slices, soak them in 200-300ml boiling water for 5- 10 minutes, and when the water temperature is cooled to below 60℃, add10/5g honey and drink them evenly. It should be noted that when adding honey, the water temperature should not be too high, otherwise it will destroy vitamin C and reduce its antioxidant capacity. Long-term use can not only prevent the growth of senile plaque to a certain extent, but also make the already existing senile plaque gradually shallow and narrow.
Therapeutic value
Honey brewed by China bees and Italian bees in hives. Also known as eating honey, honey, white honey, honey, sand honey, bee sugar. It is produced in most parts of China. Wild honey was commonly used in ancient times, and wild bees made honey among rocks, which were called stone honey and cliff honey. Now artificial beekeeping is used to make honey. It can be harvested in spring, summer and autumn. Generally, it needs to be diluted with water, heated and filtered while it is hot, and the filtrate is concentrated to a certain proportion. Eat it raw, or use it on a small fire until it drops into beads.
[Attribute] Sweet in taste and flat in nature. This product can tonify the middle energizer, moisten the lung, relieve cough, moisten the intestine and detoxify.
[Reference] contains a large amount of glucose and fructose, a small amount of sucrose, protein, citric acid, malic acid, succinic acid, formic acid, acetic acid, vitamin B 1, B2, B6, C, K, pantothenic acid, nicotinic acid, carotene, amylase, invertase, lipase and trace amounts of magnesium, sulfur, phosphorus, calcium, potassium.
It is a good nutrient. It has a strong inhibitory effect on Escherichia coli, Shigella dysenteriae, Typhoid Bacillus, Paratyphoid Bacillus, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus and so on.
[Usage] Used for spleen and stomach weakness, asthenia, anorexia, epigastric pain, or diarrhea and abdominal pain; Cough due to lung dryness, scanty phlegm or dry cough; Dry intestines and constipation; Ulcer is toxic due to heat.
[Usage] Boiled water is used to dissolve drinks, pastes, beverages, etc.
【 Precautions 】 People with intestinal slippery diarrhea should avoid raw food.
In some areas, there are a large number of highly toxic honey plants, such as Tripterygium wilfordii, Tripterygium hypoglaucum, Macleaya cordata and chestnut. Honey brewed by bees with pollen can cause poisoning. This kind of honey mainly contains toxic alkaloids, and has an abnormal taste such as bitterness, numbness and astringency. Oral administration of 200~300ml generally leads to low fever, dizziness, numbness of limbs, nausea and vomiting after 24 hours, which leads to an increase in body temperature, and some even die of circulatory and respiratory center paralysis. Although this situation is rare, it should be noticed.
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1, Mi Shao Yao Tang: 9g of Radix Paeoniae Alba and 9 g of Radix Glycyrrhizae, decocted to obtain juice; Add 30g honey and dissolve.
This prescription takes honey and licorice to tonify the spleen and stomach, and relieves pain urgently, while white peony converges yin and softens the liver to relieve pain. It is used for acute pain in upper abdomen caused by spleen deficiency and hyperactivity of liver and spleen, and it is easy to get hungry when eating less.
2, honey purslane plantain soup: 50g purslane, 30g plantain, water decoction to get juice; Add 30g honey and dissolve.
This prescription uses purslane to clear heat and detoxify, plantain to clear heat and promote diuresis, and honey has the function of detoxifying and treating dysentery. Used for damp-heat diarrhea, anorexia, abdominal pain and short urine.
3, Stemona honey cream: Stemona 30g, decoct soup to take juice, concentrate; Add 60g honey, fry with low fire until it becomes paste, and let it cool for later use. 65438 +0 spoon each time, taken with boiling water.
Stemona is the main medicine for moistening lung and relieving cough. Xu Shiquan's prescription for acute cough and Qian Jin Fang Yao's prescription for chronic cough are all decocted in thick juice. Adding honey for moistening lung and relieving cough, and decocting into ointment, the curative effect is better. For chronic cough due to lung deficiency, dry cough, dry throat or tuberculosis cough.
nutritive value
The nutritional composition of honey is extremely complicated. At present, more than 180 substances have been identified, mainly including the following parts.
1. sugar Different from ordinary sugar, glucose and fructose in honey can be directly absorbed and utilized by human intestinal wall cells without being digested by the human body, so it will not increase the burden on the stomach, which is particularly important for children, the elderly and people recovering from illness.
2. vitamins. Honey contains many vitamins, especially B vitamins. Every100g of honey contains 300-400 micrograms of B vitamins.
3. Organic acids. Honey contains many kinds of acids, and the organic acids mainly include gluconic acid, citric acid, lactic acid, acetic acid, butyric acid, formic acid and malic acid. Inorganic acids mainly include phosphoric acid and hydrochloric acid.
4. minerals. The mineral content in honey is not high, but there are many kinds, such as potassium, calcium, phosphorus, iron and copper.
5. enzymes. The number of enzymes contained in honey, that is, the level of enzyme value, is an important index to test the quality of honey, indicating the maturity and nutritional value of honey. Because honey contains enzymes, honey has special functions that other sugar foods do not have. These enzymes are added by bees in the process of honey making, and come from bee saliva, mainly sucrase, which can convert sucrose in nectar into glucose and fructose. In addition, there are amylase, glucoamylase, reductase, invertase, phosphatase, protease and so on.
Therefore, honey is considered to be one of the best health foods in the world: Shennong Herbal Classic lists honey as the top grade beneficial to people; The ancient Greeks believed that honey was a "godsend".
However, due to the different collected pollen, the therapeutic effect of honey is also different. Sophora japonica honey is generally drunk in spring, with high viscosity, fragrant smell, sweet taste and good quality. It is used for relaxing bowels, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Jujube nectar is suitable for drinking in autumn, and has the effects of nourishing the middle warmer, nourishing blood and calming the nerves, protecting the spleen and nourishing the stomach; Jinghua honey has the effect of cooling wind and relieving itching, and it will be helpful for some people who are prone to catch a cold to drink this honey; Sweet-scented osmanthus honey is known as the "king of honey", which has a good effect of nourishing the stomach. When mixed with milk, it can also moisturize and beautify the face.
Honey dietotherapy has a history of thousands of years in China. Honey is rich in nutrition, containing about 70% glucose and fructose, protein, inorganic salts, organic acids, multivitamins, and calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus and other substances.
In Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, it is said that honey "protects the five internal organs, tonifies the middle energizer, relieves pain and detoxifies, eliminates all diseases, and is used together with other medicines." Long-term use will strengthen the body and prolong life. " "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Harmony with nutrition, moistening viscera, dredging triple energizer and regulating spleen and stomach." Honey has a good effect on neurasthenia, hypertension, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, liver disease and constipation.