| Delicious Raw Honey, what are the benefits of raw | | | | anti-oxidants needed in our daily diets; they are a |
| honey and what else can you use it for? | | | | great way of helping to mop up all those free radicals |
| A particularly useful way to use it as a substitute for | | | | which are so harmful to our health. |
| sugar or sugar substitutes in home baking, cooking | | | | A good raw honey also contains all the enzymes |
| and canning recipes. This is a very healthy sugar | | | | which help to ensure our foods are digested properly. |
| substitute and one that can be adapted very easily | | | | This plays a big part in helping to keep our immune |
| when home canning your fruits and pickles. | | | | systems working correctly and is very beneficial to |
| Many a beekeeper will have such an amazing honey | | | | sufferers of irritable bowel syndrome, arthritis and |
| harvest that even when having eaten, sold and even | | | | can be helpful when trying to lose weight. |
| given away much of their honey, they will still have | | | | Your skin will benefit from this honey too, this is |
| some left over and will use it for a huge variety of | | | | wonderful for healing and tightening the skin because |
| uses. | | | | it heals skin infections and protects and moisturizes |
| When you buy cough, cold and flu remedies from | | | | keeping it soft and supple. |
| over a shop counter you are very often wasting | | | | Try using it on burns and scalds too for fast |
| their money. A far more effective home remedy is | | | | effective healing. Honey is also perhaps one of the |
| warm water with raw honey and fresh lemon juice. | | | | most understated acne cures there are. |
| Most good athletes swear by the use of honey and | | | | Is Raw Honey Useful as Medicinal Honey? |
| water to stimulate and boost their sporting | | | | Hippocrates cured most of his patients with honey. |
| performances. They will do their utmost to avoid | | | | He dedicated most of his life healing children who |
| drinking chemical sports drinks which will boost | | | | were ill. They literally thrived on the nutrition of the |
| performance for a little while although nowhere near | | | | honey given to them by him. He was the writer of |
| the period that honey will. This is because honey will | | | | the Hippocratic Oath and what he didn't know about |
| release slowly and effectively for a long period of | | | | honey is hardly worth a mention. |
| time its energy boosting compounds. | | | | Perhaps the most famous modern doctor today in |
| Honey is not just for sweetening foods and drinks, it | | | | the field of honey is Dr Peter Molam. A very clever |
| is actually a nutrition packed source of food and an | | | | man who works at the Waikato Honey Research |
| ancient form of medicine which has been proved by | | | | Unit in New Zealand. He has spent more than thirty |
| modern-day scientists to be very beneficial to our | | | | years researching and proving scientifically the |
| health. | | | | benefits of honey as a healer. |
| There are many pretty jars or cans of honey in | | | | Let's also give the Researchers at the Hebrew |
| shops looking pretty on shop shelves. Try to stay | | | | University of Jerusalem a well deserved mention, |
| clear of those pretty jars dressed up to entice you. | | | | they have proved that taking two to three ounces |
| These pretty jars are often not real, pure raw | | | | of healing honey a day wipes out the toughest of |
| honey; they have been processed and blended with | | | | stomach ulcers. |
| plenty of sugar or corn syrup. These will cause you | | | | Honey can actually stop a stomach ulcer from |
| far more harm than good. | | | | forming and is brilliant at healing one if present. |
| The Best Honey to Buy | | | | Stomach ulcers are caused by bad bacteria, not as |
| Buy your raw honey from your local beekeeper or | | | | always believed stress! Just eat two to five |
| local farmers markets. Raw honey, especially local | | | | teaspoons of good raw honey every day. |
| raw honey, actually de-sensitizes us to the pollen | | | | It is quite capable of curing most bacterial ailments |
| spores' blowing around because of the pollen spores | | | | due to its ability to eat away at and destroy any bad |
| it contains. This can prevent the onset of hay fever | | | | bacteria but will leave good bacteria alone. |
| symptoms which are a great source of misery to | | | | How many people realize it is able to eliminate MRSA |
| many. | | | | the dreaded flesh-eating disease! E-Coli is yet another |
| If you buy your honey from a shop you should really | | | | disease that doesn't stand a chance once honey gets |
| check the labels out. It is best not to buy anything | | | | to work. |
| that states it has been blended with other | | | | Hospitals use honey too, it is applied to all kinds of |
| ingredients. | | | | slow to heal skin infections such as severe nappy |
| Really raw honey will contain Propolis too, this is | | | | rash, bedsores and for unfortunate victims of severe |
| wonderful, and it is the most natural antibiotic | | | | burns with results that even amazed them. Even |
| substance you can possibly find. | | | | after major operations honey is now one the |
| Honey farmers who produce Organic Raw Honey can | | | | preferred dressings in many of today's hospitals. |
| only label and sell their honey if their bees have not | | | | Is there a more versatile medicinal or food source |
| been subjected to any kind of pollution such as | | | | than raw honey? It can be used when cooking and |
| pesticides which are believed to be the main | | | | baking helping to produce some fantastic recipes, can |
| perpetrators of our honey bee losses. | | | | be mixed with fruits to naturally sweeten a delicious |
| Is Raw Honey Good For You? | | | | smoothie, spread on toast and eaten straight from |
| This honey contains far more anti-oxidants than | | | | the can or the jar. |
| some fruits and vegetables and every vitamin and | | | | There is no use by date for Honey, it can be stored |
| mineral including water we need to sustain life. Eating | | | | forever, just store it at room temperature. It is |
| raw honey also stimulates B-lymphocytes and | | | | important to choose the right container and should |
| T-lymphocytes making them multiply which makes it | | | | always have a tightly sealed lid to stop it from |
| really good for you. | | | | absorbing any moisture around and keeping insects |
| This honey also contains those all important | | | | and ants at bay. |