What are the health benefits of drinking honey in the morning?
Drinking honey on an empty stomach every morning is good for the body. The first is to eat honey to protect the health and longevity of the honey is the worker bees picking nectar in the hive brewed. The best quality honey is made from wild honey, also known as rock honey, which is produced in limited quantities by artificial bees, and is also known as "wild honey". The health benefits of honey have long been recognized. The Divine Husbandman's Classic of the Materia Medica classifies honey as a good for human beings, and the ancient Greeks regarded honey as a "heavenly gift", while India's Vedas say that honey can benefit longevity and prolong life. China's Liang dynasty famous doctor Tao Hongjing said: "Taoist pills, more honey, people who cultivate immortality, single food honey, said to be able to live long." This statement is exaggerated, but still fully explains the role of honey in nutrition and medical care. Nutritional analysis shows that honey contains about 35% glucose, 40% fructose, these two kinds of sugar can not be digested and directly absorbed by the body. Honey also contains a variety of inorganic salts similar to human serum concentration, but also contains a certain amount of vitamins 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 has an aromatic and delicious odor, and from the point of view of nutritional and health care value, it is not only a nourishing and life-extending product, but also a good medicine for curing diseases. Honey has been used medicinally in China for thousands of years with good efficacy. 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. Slow can go anxious, 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, and licorice with 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 sorrel, 6 grams of hot licorice, decoction of honey, can be treated with gastroduodenal ulcers as well as a variety of gastroparesis. Why does honey have this healing effect? It turns out that 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 symptoms. If you use 30 grams of honey, 15 grams of fried jujube nut powder, and take it in 2 times, it has a 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, it 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 degree of efficacy. If you use danshen, shouwu 15 grams each, water decoction of the juice, punch honey 1 tablespoon of internal service, the effect is even better. With 30 grams of honey, 3 grams of refined 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, the frail, constipated patients after the disease. When there is respiratory pathology, yin deficiency and lung dryness, cough 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, mixed with honey 2 tablespoons 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, respiratory diseases cured, such as can often drink honey, not only can prevent the recurrence of old diseases, there is a strong function. For the growth period of 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 has the role of moisturizing white skin, because honey is rich in nutrients and diversified, but also easy to be absorbed and used by the human body, for the skin has 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.