Health Benefits of Raw Honey

bwallace23350 · June 14, 2016, 04:47:43 PM

What are they?

BeeMaster2 · June 14, 2016, 06:07:38 PM

I take a teaspoon full every time I feel a sore throat coming on. It stops it cold but I will have to do it again the next couple of days to keep it under control until my immune system kills it

It is unbelievable for infected wounds. It told my daughter to put it on a badly infected burn and the next day we were astonished to see all of the infection gone.
There is a whole book on the Benefits of pollen honey and propolis.
I will try to find it for you.
Jim

bwallace23350 · June 14, 2016, 06:11:10 PM

Thanks

BeeMaster2 · June 14, 2016, 06:14:44 PM

Try: Basic Health Publications, Users Guide to Propolis, Royal Jelly, Honey and Bee Pollen.
By c. Leigh Broadhurst PH.D.
I think it will answer all of your questions.
Jim

flyboy · June 14, 2016, 07:05:49 PM

This link http://apitherapy.com/bee-products/ is for the guy who taught our apitherapy course. He has the medicinal uses for around 17 or 18 bee products . Just click on the item that you want to know the medicinal uses for.

divemaster1963 · June 14, 2016, 07:58:48 PM

I have couple doctors that buy mine and say they take a teaspoon 30 mins before bed to make them sleep better and deeper. They say there is a natural melatonin in honey. I have a little girl in the neighborhood that has syriosic very badly and here doctor told her parents to find a beekeeper and get honey. I keep them supplied with honey. They were told to give her a teaspoon in morning and one at night. Then in evening apply some honey to the skin with coconut oil mixed in then give her a bath before bed. It has been working great for her. At first I was worried about the honey on skin then they told me that they don't let her outside when it's on.

. I have a durmatoligist the use it for scrare treatments also.

John

cao · June 14, 2016, 09:00:29 PM

Beside some of the uses already stated above, I take a spoonful to get rid of hiccups.

KeyLargoBees · June 15, 2016, 09:05:40 AM

Now thats interesting Cao my sister is afflicted with chronic hiccups and they will last for hours sometimes...I will clue her into this and have her try it.

bwallace23350 · June 15, 2016, 09:24:25 AM

Why not honey on the skin with sun? Thanks everyone for the tips. Based off of this I dosed my mom with a spoonful of honey yesterday because of her cold and she appears to be doing better.

GSF · June 15, 2016, 09:42:18 AM

Honey was used greatly during the civil war by the confederate doctors. They applied it to wounds and burns. I had a burn that went 3 or 4 days and would not scab over. I dried it off, applied honey on the wound that night and the next morning I woke up with a scab.

Two of my honey customers(patients)(lol) use it religiously for their allergies. Honey and cinnamon cured one of a migraine brought on by allergies. The other was having to go to the doctor weekly for a scheduled allergy shot. He started taking one to two tablespoons a day and hasn't been back for a shot in a year or so. btw, both of these cures was discovered somewhat by accident. They are both friends of mine and the first pint of honey was a gift to them. What a heck of a gift :)

bwallace23350 · June 15, 2016, 09:57:21 AM

I can vouch for the allergy part. I used to have to take allergy medicine all spring and summer even up till I was about 25. I started taking local honey, as a sweetener in my green tea and oatmeal, and never have taken allergy medcine since.

BeeMaster2 · June 15, 2016, 01:12:02 PM

I have several customers that were able to quit taking allergy medicine after using honey on a regular basis. I have a friend that depends on bee stings just to keep her from being bed ridden. She has been doing it for 25 years now. If she does not get her stings every other day, she ends up back in bed. My son is also a big user of bee stings to remove back pain.
Jim

flyboy · June 15, 2016, 01:57:23 PM

Here is a vid in German (which I do not understand) which shows honey massage. It does an incredible job of cleaning the skin to a fairly deep level. There is also a bit on breathing hive air for PPL with respiratory issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS5REPbbW_Q

Colobee · June 17, 2016, 12:54:11 PM

Well, I'm not sure I can add much, other than that I've been taking honey with my coffee daily for decades & I'm still alive...

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As mentioned - it's phenomenal on infected cuts & especially burns. It will burn like acid on a deep cut! I don't know if it is helping keep my blood pressure down, or if that's the beekeeping, or if it's just hereditary.

I read one account from the Civil War of an officer/casualty being shipped home in a coffin full honey - the body preserved for some weeks or perhaps months... I don't recall exactly.

Hops Brewster · June 17, 2016, 05:17:28 PM

Quote from: bwallace23350 on June 15, 2016, 09:24:25 AM
Why not honey on the skin with sun? Thanks everyone for the tips. Based off of this I dosed my mom with a spoonful of honey yesterday because of her cold and she appears to be doing better.

bwallace, I don't think the trouble with having honey on the skin outdoors is because of the sun, but because bees are outdoors too.

JasonP · June 17, 2016, 08:46:22 PM

I had a work mate come to me for some honey for her horse! I thought that it must have been for the feed or something. Apparently the horse had run through a barbed wire fence and cut it self open, the vet had stitched it up however it was all infected. She wanted to put the honey on the wound. I caught up with her a little while later and she said the she and the vet couldn't believe it, not only had the infection gone the wound was barely visible. How's that for a natural antibiotic!

PhilK · June 17, 2016, 09:21:09 PM

Quote from: JasonP on June 17, 2016, 08:46:22 PM
I had a work mate come to me for some honey for her horse! I thought that it must have been for the feed or something. Apparently the horse had run through a barbed wire fence and cut it self open, the vet had stitched it up however it was all infected. She wanted to put the honey on the wound. I caught up with her a little while later and she said the she and the vet couldn't believe it, not only had the infection gone the wound was barely visible. How's that for a natural antibiotic!

I'm a vet and when I was working with large animals I was a huge fan of honey for wounds. I still use it in small animals now. The antibiotic properties aren't as strong as most veterinary medicines, but what's fascinating about honey is that it actually promotes wound healing. Granulation tissue is needed to close wounds and honey promotes it's growth (so do maggots, interestingly)!

Wombat2 · June 18, 2016, 03:00:28 AM

Honey is very hydroscopic and osmotic ie. It attracts or draws water to itself and only with it poisons, bacteria and dead tissue so cleaning the wound as well as adding nutrients for the growing tissue

bwallace23350 · June 18, 2016, 09:11:01 AM

That is super interesting. I will be trying that, not on animals but on myself. I am always getting scraped up.

Colobee · June 19, 2016, 11:46:18 AM

I've had a few folks want honey to mix ~ 1:1 with Apple Cider vinegar as a daily tonic - reportedly "good for almost anything that ails ya"...