RAW honey is one of the most vital things you can keep on hand in your home. Not only as a food but also as an amazing addition to your medicine cabinet.
(*Make sure to buy RAW organic honey. Generic store bought honey goes through processing and that manufacturing destroys nutrients and enzymes. Additionally, some of it has been found to be often not honey at all, but corn syrup, which is unhealthy to say the very least.)
Here are some ideas of what honey is, does and can help with:
• Antibacterial
• Anti fungal
• Alkalizes body’s pH
• Provides minerals, vitamins, antioxidants
• Strengthens immunity
• Reduces fatigue
• Helps to relieve a sore throat (hot toddy of honey, apple cider vinegar, water, lemon and cinnamon is delicious and effective)
• Helps with indigestion
• Helps quell acid reflux
• Destroys bacteria causing acne (use as a face mask 15 min. a day)
• Can heal scarring (non keloid) (use as a mask on scars 15 minutes a day)
• When mixed with hot water helps to digest fat stores in the body
• Promotes the growth of good intestinal bacteria
• Reduces inflammation and pain
• Helps heal bed sores
• Soothes burns, disinfects wounds
• For hangovers (Mix 15ml of raw honey with 80ml of orange juice and 70ml of organic yogurt)
• Reduces ulcers and other gastrointestinal disorders
• Helps with eczema (topically)
• Helps to flush parasites from liver and colon
• Helps with anxiety
• Helps with dandruff
• Reduces metabolic stress
• Helps with hiccups
• Soften hard water (Just add honey to bath water)
• Relieves morning sickness
• Reduces hay fever. (1 tablespoon of honey in the morning)
• Helps with tension headaches (Simply sip on a ½ glass of warm water with a couple of added teaspoons of honey)
• Promotes restoration of eyesight (Mix 2 teaspoons of honey with carrot juice and consume regularly)
• Helps prevent heart disease
• Contains phytonutrients, (anti-cancer)
• Helps prevent low white blood cell count
• Counters pollen allergies (Take a teaspoon of raw local honey a couple of times a day starting a few months prior to allergy season)
• Honey helps build stamina in athletes
• Honey and cinnamon can help with Arthritis
• Reduce toothaches (Make a paste of honey and cinnamon and apply on the aching tooth)
• Helps with pink eye (Place a teaspoon of honey with a cup of water and heat just enough to melt the honey. Let cool and use an eyedropper drip the mixture in the infected eye)
• Leg cramps (Take 2 tbsp. of apple cider vinegar and 1 tbsp. of honey each evening before bed)
• Reduces cholesterol (Mix two tablespoons of honey and three tablespoons of cinnamon in 16 ounces of tea)
• Helps with bad breath (Mix one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon in hot water)
And I bet you thought it was just for tea!
Author: Sarah Barendse
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