Honey uses in medicine

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• Cancer Prevention - Honey is thought to be anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, immune-boosting, and a healer of chronic ulcers and wounds, which are all areas involved in carcinogenesis (the beginning/creation of cancer).
• Heart Disease Prevention - lowers total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and triglycerides
• Athletic Performance - natural sugars give endurance and support speed
• Gastrointestinal Disorders and Ulcers - Honey is easily digested and counteracts stomach acidity.
• Cough Suppressant and Throat Pain - According to the Mayo Clinic, honey soothes the throat when mixed with tea or warm lemon-water. They also discovered that when two teaspoons of honey were given to children (older than one-year-old) before bedtime, nighttime cough was reduced.
• Eyesight - mixing 2 teaspoons of honey with carrot juice is suggested to improve eyesight that has been affected by long hours at a computer.
• Weight Loss - 1 teaspoon honey to about 2 teaspoons of lemon or lime juice every morning is said to speed up the metabolism or helps after large, greasy meals. It is also believed to help with cellulite.
• Impotence, Premature Ejaculation, and Involuntary Loss of Semen - Although it is not proven on humans and was used in an experiment on rats, honey was found to potentially increase testosterone and antioxidants. Recipe suggested: crushed onion fried in butter, mixed with 1 teaspoon of honey when stomach is empty over a couple of hours, or 1/2 teaspoon of ginger juice with a half-boiled egg and honey in the evening.
• Bladder Infection - 1 teaspoon honey with 2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar once a day. The honey is for it antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal abilities and apple cider vinegar for the hostile environment (increased acidity) it creates, that bacteria does not thrive in. Also try 1 teaspoon of honey with 2 pinches of salt daily or 1 teaspoon honey and 2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon in 1 cup of warm water (cinnamon destroys bacteria in the bladder).
• Bronchial Asthma - An inhalation treatment made from honey and distilled water/saline solution. You must see a doctor for the inhalation method. With the inhaler, you can take 120 grams of honey three times a day before meals.
• Diarrhea - To prevent diarrhea when going on a trip,1 teaspoon honey with 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar in a glass of water, one half hour before meals on days before the trip.
• Nausea - 1 teaspoon honey with 1 teaspoon lemon juice, drink slow or 1 Tablespoon crushed fennel seeds steeped in 1 cup boiling water for 10 minutes, adding honey for taste.
• Blood Sugar Regulation - Honey contains both fructose and glucose. Fructose helps glucose to be delivered to the liver. Glycogen is formed and used by organs such as the heart, red blood cells, brain, and kidneys. It allows organs to function better and for glucose to be removed, causing blood sugar to be lowered.
• Skin Wounds - When honey is mixed with water, it makes hydrogen peroxide, which is a mild antiseptic. It can be applied to cuts and wounds.
• Skin Growth - Raw honey applied to the skin can be used to promote new skin growth.
• Skin Health and Beauty - Honey contains mild Alpha Hydroxy Acids that encourage exfoliation of old skin cells, minimize lines and wrinkles, balance oily skin, increase elasticity, and stimulate the production of collagen. Apply honey to your face, as you would a facial mask. Leave on for approximately 15-20 minutes. Rinse off. Your face will feel soft and smooth! You can also add your own ingredients to the honey to enhance the exfoliation effect!
• Honey also improves blood circulation, reduces free radicals, and can reverse previous damage from free radicals.
• Finally, it holds moisture in the skin, so a honey mask will benefit the appearance of your facial skin.

***WARNING! I would like to mention, NEVER feed honey to an infant or child under the age of one-year-old. This is due to the risk of Botulism. These infants and children do not have an immune system that is developed enough to fight against the infection.

Additionally, the above recipes are suggestions. These recipes and directions should not replace seeing a doctor if you believe you have an illness. If you are diabetic, consult your doctor before using honey in your diet.

Raw honey vs processed honey

The Shocking Differences Between Raw Honey and Processed Golden Honey

by Karen Foster — There are well over 30 commercial producers of honey that have no traces of pollen and lack beneficial vitamins and enzymes among a host of other natural constituents which are removed due to pasteurization and processing. Most golden honey you see at your local grocery is dead and far from the health promoting powerhouse of its raw unpasteurized counterpart. Processed honey is not honey at all and if you desire any kind of health benefits, you must stick to the real stuff.

In the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration says that any product that’s been ultra-filtered and no longer contains pollen isn’t honey. However, the FDA isn’t checking honey sold in the U.S. to see if it contains pollen.

Ultra filtering is a high-tech procedure where honey is heated, sometimes watered down and then forced at high pressure through extremely small filters to remove pollen, which is the only foolproof sign identifying the source of the honey. It is a spin-off of a technique refined by the Chinese, who have illegally dumped tons of their honey — some containing illegal antibiotics — on the U.S. market for years.

They purchased more than 60 jars, jugs and plastic bears of honey in 10 states and the District of Columbia.

The contents were analyzed for pollen by Vaughn Bryant, a professor at Texas A&M University and one of the nation’s premier melissopalynologists, or investigators of pollen in honey.

Bryant, who is director of the Palynology Research Laboratory, found that among the containers of honey provided by Food Safety News, 76 percent or more had the pollen removed including stores such as Walgreens, Costco, Walmart, Sam’s Club, TOP Food, Safeway, Giant Eagle, QFC, Kroger, Metro Market, Harris Teeter, A&P, Stop & Shop and King Soopers.

Why Remove the Pollen?

We can only assume to prevent the majority of the public from obtaining all the benefits found in raw honey. Removal of all pollen from honey “makes no sense” and is completely contrary to marketing the highest quality product possible, Mark Jensen, president of the American Honey Producers Association, told Food Safety News.

“I don’t know of any U.S. producer that would want to do that. Elimination of all pollen can only be achieved by ultra-filtering and this filtration process does nothing but cost money and diminish the quality of the honey,” Jensen said.

“In my judgment, it is pretty safe to assume that any ultra-filtered honey on store shelves is Chinese honey and it’s even safer to assume that it entered the country uninspected and in violation of federal law,” he added.

What’s Wrong With Chinese Honey?

Chinese honey has long had a poor reputation in the U.S., where — in 2001 — the Federal Trade Commission imposed stiff import tariffs or taxes to stop the Chinese from flooding the marketplace with dirt-cheap, heavily subsidized honey, which was forcing American beekeepers out of business.

To avoid the dumping tariffs, the Chinese quickly began transshipping honey to several other countries, then laundering it by switching the color of the shipping drums, the documents and labels to indicate a bogus but tariff-free country of origin for the honey.

Most U.S. honey buyers knew about the Chinese actions because of the sudden availability of lower cost honey, and little was said.

The FDA — either because of lack of interest or resources — devoted little effort to inspecting imported honey. Nevertheless, the agency had occasionally either been told of, or had stumbled upon, Chinese honey contaminated with chloramphenicol and other illegal animal antibiotics which are dangerous, even fatal, to a very small percentage of the population.

Mostly, the adulteration went undetected.

What’s Are Differences Between Raw Unpasteurized Honey and Pasteurized Processed Golden Honey?

The processing of honey often removes many of the phytonutrients found in raw honey as it exists in the hive. Raw honey, for example, contains small amounts of the same resins found in propolis. Propolis, sometimes called “bee glue,” is actually a complex mixture of resins and other substances that honeybees use to seal the hive and make it safe from bacteria and other micro-organisms. Honeybees make propolis by combining plant resins with their own secretions. However, substances like road tar have also been found in propolis.

Bee keepers sometimes use special screens around the inside of the hive boxes to trap propolis, since bees will spread this substance around the honeycomb and seal cracks with the anti-bacterial, anti-viral, and anti-fungal resins. The resins found in propolis only represent a small part of the phytonutrients found in propolis and honey, however. Other phytonutrients found both in honey and propolis have been shown to possess cancer-preventing and anti-tumor properties. These substances include caffeic acid methyl caffeate, phenylethyl caffeate, and phenylethyl dimethylcaffeate. Researchers have discovered that these substances prevent colon cancer in animals by shutting down activity of two enzymes, phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C andlipoxygenase. When raw honey is extensively processed and heated, the benefits of these phytonutrients are largely eliminated.

2 WAYS TO SPOT ARTIFICIAL HONEY

1. The Shelf Life Test
Pure honey will crystallize over time. Imitation honey will remain looking like syrup, no matter how long it is stored.

2. Light a Fire 
Dip the tip of a matchstick in “honey”, and then strike it to light. Natural honey will light the match easily and the flame will burn off the honey. Fake honey will not light because of the moisture it contains.

How Can You Tell The Difference Between Pure Honey and Artificial Honey?

Inverted sugar solutions and glucose syrups or corn are often used for making fake honey, mixing with it, or replacing it entirely.

Another method for falsification of honey is feeding bees with sugar products.

The “innocent” method of honey falsification is the addition of water (honey containing more than 25% water, is considered to be falsified)

Worldwide, adulterated honey is deemed, counterfeiting ranks second among the food industry – the extra virgin olive oil.

Artificial honey is a food with many shortcomings, representing a solution of invert sugar syrup, which comes from refined sugar, which often add other ingredients, generally summarized as: glucose syrup, dyes, flavors and enhancer flavors. Such a synthetic preparation can be achieved in domestic conditions, but you need to know it is not healthy. Artificial honey contains a physical mixture of glucose and fructose focused elements that have separated from the previous combination, that of sucrose (sugar). It is known that both are in high concentrations, even more dangerous than the original form, crystalline carbohydrates entering the category of very rapid absorption substances.

Artificial inverted sugar, also called artificial honey, is a syrup, soluble in water, with sweet taste, resulted from the hydrolysis of sucrose. It is widely used in food industry as sweetener, attracting criticism from many nutritionists and doctors.

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Benefit of honey

The following are the benefits that just a teaspoon of honey a day brings with it:

• Weight management: A Spoon of honey taken with warm water in the morning is traditionally known to be useful in weight management.
• Sugar substitute:Honey is a healthier substitute to sugar when looking to reduce weight as it has lesser calories  than sugar and contains vitamins, minerals and antioxidants which are good for health.
• Source of energy:Honey is known to be a good source of energy as it’s natural sugar and carbohydrates are easily digested by the body.
• Aids Digestion:Honey when used in your diet is known to aid in digestion.
• Cough and cold:Honey is known to help in cough and throat irritation.
• Beautiful Skin:Honey is known to be useful for the skin because of its moisturizing and nourishing properties

Milk and Honey Recipe for Good Health

How about taking a glass of sour milk and honey at the start of each day?

Bifidobacteria is a group of good, friendly bacteria which are essential for life and good health and particularly important to the health and proper function of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. One way to increase the Bifidobacteria populations in the intestine is by consuming foods containing prebiotics -- nutrients that stimulate the growth of probiotic Acidophillus and Bifidus bacteria. Research conducted at Michigan State University has shown that honey, a natural sweetenercomprising vitamins, enzymes, minerals, and antioxidants, contains a number of fermentable carbohydrates including a variety of oligosaccharides that can function as prebiotics and enhance the growth, activity and viability of bifidobacteria in milk, and fermented dairy products such as yoghurts.

Honey is known as a compound made up of fructose sugar molecules linked together in long chains -- fructooligosaccharide (FOS), which can also be found in other plants such as Jerusalem artichoke tubers, onions, leeks, barley, rye, oats. FOS are also available as a nutritional supplement and the food industry is jumping on the band wagon by adding FOS such as honey to yoghurts, and combining milk and honey to form healthy food. Benefits of FOS are numerous. They help carry moisture through the digestive system and therefore promoting healthy bowel movements. Growth of the beneficial bacteria encourages the production of short chain fatty acids, lowering pH, inhibiting unhealthy bacteria land detoxifying carcinogens in the diet. FOS also helps to lower blood sugar and cholesterol levels by reducing absorption of carbohydrates and fats into the blood stream, nourishes the cells in the gut which is important for digestive well-being and the prevention of constipation. Improving digestion is key to establishing good health. When in good health, we get rid of wastes and toxins through regular bowel movements and eliminate the build up of unhealthy micro-organisms and internal toxins, providing a strong and intact intestinal barrier to prevent the leaking of undigested food fragments into the blood stream.As more research becomes available and we learn more about bacteria and how they affect our health, the more important both probiotic and prebiotic products will become and the more of these home remedies such as milk and honey you will see on the supermarket shelves.

Honey also has a major role to play as a carrier of foods containing relatively high levels of vitamins and minerals, and has been shown to help the body absorb minerals such as calcium. Elderly people have higher risk for fractures from osteoporosis or low bone mass. One of the ways to avoid this is to consume adequate calcium, and make sure that it is absorbed. And researchers at Purdue University has shown in its preliminary findings that honey added to milk could enhance calcium uptake.

Many facial cleansing and skin moisturising products have also included milk and honey as part of their ingredients to claim beauty benefits such skin hydration, smoothness, purification, anti-aging,and revitalization. A warm glass of milk with a teaspoon of honey is also known to be a good remedy for sleeplessness. 

Honey Raspberry Ice Cream

Ingredients :

1 quart raspberries
1/3 cup  yogaa Organic Honey
2 cups heavy cream
1 cup half and half
1 tsp lemon juice
1- 1 ½ cups sugar(depending on how sweet your berries are)
3 egg yolks
¼ tsp salt

Directions : 
In a bowl, add the yolks, sugar and honey and whisk together- set aside. Using a double boiler over medium-low heat, add the half and half, cream, raspberries and salt. (Again, I used a saucepan and it worked well.) Whisk regularly the mixture, heating until the temperature reaches about 145F. The mixture should begin to turn purple.
Once the cream mixture has reached the desired temperature, slowly add about half of the mixture to the eggs and sugar while whisking vigorously. This will prevent the eggs from curdling. Once the eggs and cream have been thoroughly integrated, pour the egg mix back into the remaining cream.
Whisk constantly and slowly as the mix rises in temperature. Once the temperature reaches 165-170F — or when the mix evenly coats the back of a spoon — remove from heat and add the lemon juice. Whisk them in completely and run through a sieve (if you wish) to remove any raspberries seeds. Move to a new container to cool. The mix can be placed in the freezer for 2 to 3 hours or, preferably, into the refrigerator overnight.
Churn according to your ice cream maker’s instructions. After churning, place in freezer to firm up. I recommend placing a seal of plastic wrap tightly against the ice cream after making it to prevent a skin from forming on the ice cream’s surface. (I didn’t do this and it turned out but I have heard this method is common.) Serve once firm enough.

Honey energy drink

serves 2 people
150ml (¼ pint)  yogaa orange juice
150ml (¼ pint) natural yoghurt
30ml (2tbsp) Oganic  honey

Place all the ingredients in a liquidizer and blend until smooth. Pour into two tall glasses.

A Few Quick Serving Ideas

Ingredients :

• Use yogaa Organic honey in place of table sugar as a sweetener in your tea / coffee/ milk.
• Drizzle apple slices with Lion Kashmir honey and sprinkle with cinnamon.
• To enjoy sweetened yogurt without excess sugar, mix a little Lion Kashmir honey into plain yogurt.
• A delicious sandwich that is enjoyed by kids of all ages is a combination of peanut (or almond) butter, with bananas and Lion Kashmir honey.
• To beat the heat add a little Organic honey in cold fruit juice, it’s both refreshing and healthy.

Two Minute Smoothe

This makes 1 glass. Measurements are a guideline - you may need more liquid to make up a full glass, depending on the size and juiciness of the fruits and vegetables.
Ingredients :

• 1 large mango peeled and stoned, flesh in scoops
• 1 banana, peeled and in chunks
• 300ml/1/2pt milk
• 1 tbsp organic honey

Place all ingredients in a blender and whizz smooth. Pour into a tall glass.

Homemade Honey Ice Cream

Ingredients :

• 4 large egg yolks
• 2/3 cup yogaa organic honey
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 3 cups half-and-half
• Optional infusions, inclusions* (add-ins) or swirls (see "Four Ways To Customize," below)

*Infusions are flavors that are infused into the milk or cream; then the flavoring element (cinnamon stick, ginger, etc.) is removed. Inclusions is the industry term for what many of us call "mix-ins." Of course, "inclusions" simply means "other things that are included" in the ice cream—nuts, chocolate chips, pieces of fruit, whatever. Sliced almonds are a tasty topping for honey ice cream. Make a special "sticky almond" topping by soaking the almonds in some honey.

Directions : 
Whisk together eggs, honey and salt in medium bowl; set aside. In a medium saucepan, bring half-and-half to a full simmer with any infusions. Remove from heat. If infusing, cover and let steep 2 hours; strain into another medium saucepan and bring to a simmer again.

• Slowly add 1 cup of the simmering cream mix to the egg-honey mixture while whisking (to avoid scrambling the eggs); then return the egg and cream mixture to the saucepan.
• Again bring to a simmer over medium-low heat, stirring constantly until the custard thickens enough to coat a spoon and the thermometer reads 170°F to 175°F, about 4 minutes (do not boil).
• Strain into a clean bowl and allow steam to escape before covering and chilling until cold (at least 3 hours and up to 1 day).
• Process custard in ice cream maker according to manufacturer’s instructions; add soft add-in ingredients half way through freezing or chunky ingredients during the last 2 to 5 minutes.
• Transfer to a bowl or tub, add any desired swirls and serve, or cover and freeze until firm—at least 3 hours and up to 3 days.

Four Ways to Customize Honey Ice Cream

• Switch your dairy: Replace up to 1 cup of the half-and-half with heavy cream, plain yogurt, buttermilk or sour cream.
• Infusions: Infuse the cream base with 1 to 2 tablespoons of your favorite herbs (such as lavender or mint), spices (crushed cinnamon sticks or cloves), botanicals (grated citrus rind or chopped ginger root), a split and scraped vanilla bean or a few saffron threads.
• Inclusions (Add-ins): Halfway through the churning process, add up to 1 cup of fruit or vegetable purée, soft cream cheese or blue cheese. Or, during the last 2 to 5 minutes, add 1/2 cup to 1 cup of juicy berries, chunks of ripe fruit, nuts, bits of pure honeycomb or chocolate pieces.
• Swirls: Immediately after churning and before serving (or packing in freezer tubs), swirl in whatever creamy, thick confection that tempts, such as caramel or chocolate sauce.