The Therapeutic Power of Honey

When you visit the supermarket, you probably notice a whole rack or a number of racks dedicated to various types of honey. When we’re discussing honey as a healing cure, though, it’s important that raw honey is used. Raw honey has not been “sterilized” with high heat, and it has not had anything put into it.

Raw honey varies a lot, too. There’s wildflower honey, tupelo honey, organic honey, and clover honey. A good middle road is raw wildflower honey. It has a tendency to contain the healing attributes of a number of wildflowers, and whenever you’re attempting to kill germs, the more germ-fighting constituents, the better.

How Is Honey Used?
One of the great things about honey is just how good is tastes. Children (over 1 year of age) respond well to honey as a treatment solution. Here are some of honey’s healing purposes.

* Burns – Honey has been shown in various scientific studies to be an incredibly useful burn treatment. It has a variety of anti-bacterial ingredients that have yet to result in bacterial resistance, and its moist nature assists in keeping burned skin supple and minimizes moisture loss. If you use honey to treat minor burns, just spread honey over the burn and cover lightly with gauze. Honey doesn’t need to be chilled, but it feels good on a burn when it is cooled.

* Coughs and colds – Studies have shown that frequently eating raw honey aids in preventing colds. It also helps soothe coughs and sore throats. Its sticky consistency coats the throat, and has a cough-suppressing benefit. Its anti-bacterial properties help fight throat infections and upper respiratory infections. By gently heating raw honey and mixing in therapeutic herbs such as sliced ginger, steeping for a couple of hours, and straining out the herbs, you can create a healing cough syrup.

* Makeup – Honey is wonderful for dry skin due to its high moisture content, and its anti-bacterial qualities can help with skin infections like acne breakouts. Plain yogurt combined with honey makes a soothing cleanser or facial mask. Sugar mixed with raw honey and sweet almond oil makes a moisturizing exfoliator.

* Allergies – Interestingly enough, routinely consuming raw honey can prevent allergic symptoms, specifically those of hay fever. Because raw honey contains residual plant pollen and various other plant elements, the concept is that the lower levels of exposure – just like occurs with allergy injections – might minimize sensitivity to standard allergens.

* Wound treatment – Some fascinating studies have shown that honey is a wonderful wound healer, especially for diabetics who may have problems with minor injuries developing into ulcers. It could even minimize scarring damage and tends to be much less painful than conventional antiseptics.

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