Honey is not cool or hot, honey is flat.

From the Chinese medicine point of view, honey is flat and sweet, has the effect of tonifying the spleen and stomach, lubricating the bowels, can relieve the dry mouth, dry nose, dry skin and dry stools and other problems, as well as the effect of tranquilizing the mind.

Honey can also nourish yin and moisturize dryness, suitable for patients with yin deficiency and fire. If you have dry nose and redness due to nasal allergy, you can improve it by taking honey. However, people with cold and damp physique, or those whose bodies are often edematous, consuming honey will, on the contrary, aggravate dampness and do more harm than good. So before consuming honey, you should consider your personal constitution.

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Eating honey precautions

1, less than a year old babies should not eat honey:

Honey is rich in nutrients, and it is a popular dietary delicacy. Many new mothers will also add some honey in the baby's complementary food to adjust the taste, increase the nutritional value. However, experts point out that honey is not suitable for infants and young children under 1 year old.

2, diabetics can not take honey:

per 100 grams of honey carbohydrate glucose about 35 grams, fructose about 40 grams, sucrose about 2 grams, dextrin about 1 gram.

Glucose and fructose are monosaccharides that can be absorbed directly into the bloodstream without digestion after entering the intestinal tract to raise blood sugar, sucrose and dextrin can be absorbed after a little hydrolysis, so honey's role in raising blood sugar is particularly obvious. From this point of view, diabetics can not take honey.

3, cirrhosis patients can not drink honey:

Generally speaking, hepatitis B patients are very suitable for drinking honey, because honey provides simple sugar does not need the liver to decompose and synthesize, which can reduce the burden on the liver, but patients with cirrhosis can not drink honey because it will aggravate the fibrosis of the liver.

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