Honey is made by worker bees collecting flowers and honey in their nests. There are three kinds of honey in spring, summer and winter, and the quality of honey in winter is the best. Wild honey, such as trees and caves, is also called wild honey, also called stone honey or rock honey, which has the best quality, but the output is limited, so most of the honey seen in the market is collected by artificial beekeeping. The benefits of honey to human health have long been recognized. Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica lists honey as the top grade beneficial to people. The ancient Greeks believed that honey was a "godsend", while the Vedas in India said that honey could prolong life. Tao Hongjing, a famous doctor in the Liang Dynasty in China, said: "Taoist pills are mostly honey, and those who cultivate immortals only eat honey, that is, they can live forever." Although this statement is somewhat exaggerated, it fully illustrates the role of honey in nutrition and medical care.
Nutritional analysis shows that honey contains about 35% glucose and 40% fructose, both of which can be directly absorbed and utilized by human body without digestion. Honey also contains a variety of inorganic salts with concentrations similar to human serum, and also contains a certain amount of vitamins B 1, B2, B6, iron, calcium, copper, manganese, phosphorus and potassium. Honey contains amylase, lipase, invertase and so on, which is the most enzyme in food. Enzymes are promoters that help human digestion, absorption and a series of substance metabolism and chemical changes. Honey tastes fragrant and delicious. From the perspective of nutrition and health care value, honey is not only a good product for nourishing and prolonging life, but also a good medicine for treating diseases.
Honey, as a medicine, has a history of thousands of years in China, and its curative effect is very good. Li Shizhen, a medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, pointed out: "Honey has five functions as medicine: clearing heat; Buzhong also; Wet and dry; Detoxification also; Relieve the pain. Born cold, it can clear away heat. Maturity is warm, so it can be made up. Sweet and peaceful, so you can detoxify. Soft and moist, so it can moisten dryness. It can slow down the urgency, so it can stop the pain of myocardial trauma and cause the middle, so it can reconcile various drugs and work together with licorice. "
Clinically, honey can not only treat gastritis, but also add some drugs to honey to treat ulcers. If you take 6 grams of honey with warm boiled water every morning, you can take it on an empty stomach or take it with Salvia Miltiorrhiza 15 grams, Radix Aucklandiae 6 grams and Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata 6 grams, and take it with honey after decoction, which can treat gastroduodenal ulcer and various stomachaches. Why does honey have this effect? It turns out that honey is a potential alkaline food, which contains inorganic salts such as manganese, which can promote the digestion and assimilation of food, thus reducing the gastrointestinal burden and relieving symptoms.
If honey is 30g, fried jujube kernel15g is taken twice, it has a good sedative effect and can cure palpitation, insomnia, forgetfulness and dreaminess. If you add 9 grams of Schisandra chinensis and 9 grams of Platycladus orientalis leaves, you can also enhance your memory and improve your intelligence.
If patients with hypertension, liver disease and heart disease drink 1 cup of honey water on an empty stomach in the morning and evening, it will have certain curative effect on the above diseases. If Salvia Miltiorrhiza Radix and Polygoni Multiflori Radix 15g are used, the decoction is taken and honey 1 tablespoon is taken orally, the effect is better. Use 30g of honey and 3g of refined salt, mix well with cold boiled water, and take/kloc-0 each time in the morning and evening, which has a good laxative effect, especially suitable for the elderly, the infirm and patients with constipation after illness.
Those with respiratory diseases, lung dryness due to yin deficiency, and chronic cough without phlegm can use Farfara Flos 10g, Lily 15g, Polygonatum odoratum 15g, decoct with water to get juice, and add 2 tablespoons of honey to drink. You can also put a proper amount of honey in hollow Sydney and stew it in water, which can eliminate the feeling of dry and itchy throat caused by dry climate and is conducive to the smooth cough of phlegm accumulated in trachea. Therefore, after the respiratory disease is cured, if you can drink honey regularly, you can not only prevent the recurrence of the old disease, but also keep fit.
Honey is often their favorite food for growing children. Honey contains iron and folic acid, which can prevent and correct anemia in children.
In addition, honey also has moisturizing and whitening effects. Because honey is rich in nutrients, it is easy to be absorbed and utilized by the human body, and it has a moisturizing effect on the skin. Especially when the climate is dry in winter, eating more honey can prevent chapped skin. Many advanced cosmetics are extracted from honey, which shows that honey has a good protective effect on the skin. If it can be taken orally and externally for a long time, it will help to beautify and prolong life.
Second, homemade honey mask
Honey cucumber mask (whitening and wrinkle removing)
Take fresh cucumber juice, add appropriate amount of milk powder and honey, mix a few drops of essential balm evenly, then apply it on the face, wash it after 20-30 minutes, or wash the cucumber, slice it and stick it directly on the face, which has the functions of moistening skin, whitening skin and removing wrinkles.
Honey angelica dahurica mask (freckle removing and whitening)
1. Take Radix Angelicae Dahuricae10g and Rhizoma Typhonii10g and grind them into fine powder. Add water and honey and apply it to your face. After 20 minutes, wash them. They have the functions of wrinkle removal, freckle removal and whitening. They are suitable for patients with facial pigmentation or yellowish brown spots.
2. Material: 6 grams of Angelica dahurica; Egg yolk1; 1 tbsp honey; Cucumber juice 1 teaspoon; 3 tablespoons olive oil.
Exercise:
1. First, put the powder of Radix Angelicae Dahuricae into a bowl, add the egg yolk and stir well.
2. Add honey and cucumber juice, mix well and apply on your face. After about 20 minutes, rinse with water.
3. After washing your face, apply olive oil to your face with a cotton pad for about 5 minutes.
Then cover your face with a hot towel. At this point, the cotton pad does not need to be removed.
5. After the towel cools, take off the towel and cotton pad and wash your face.
Honey pearl powder mask
Prepare a small clean bottle, pour half a bottle of pearl powder, then slowly pour in honey, while stirring, so that honey and pearl powder are fully mixed, and be careful not to pour too much honey to make it paste. So the mask is ready.
Wash your face with warm water before use, then dip a small cotton swab into the prepared mask and apply it evenly, not too thick, just a thin layer. Wash it off after 1-2 hours to make your face smooth and shiny.
Red wine honey mask (whitening and nourishing)
Wine acid in red wine is fruit acid, which can promote the metabolism of keratin, dilute pigment and make skin whiter and smoother. Honey has moisturizing and nourishing effects.
Methods: Add 2-3 spoonfuls of honey to a small glass of red wine to adjust it to a sticky state, then evenly apply it to the face, and wash it with warm water after eight minutes of drying.
Note: people with alcohol allergy should use it with caution!
Honey Shuang Ren Mask (Freckle Removing)
Wax gourd kernel contains fatty oleic acid, citrulline and other ingredients, which can dilute spots. Peach kernel is rich in vitamin E and vitamin B6, which not only helps the skin to resist oxidation, but also reduces the damage of ultraviolet rays. The moisturizing and nourishing effects of honey make the mask more effective.
Methods: The seeds of winter melon seeds and peach kernels were dried and ground into small pieces, then mixed with appropriate amount of honey to form a thick paste, applied to the spots every night before going to bed, and washed the next morning. After three weeks of application, the spots will gradually fade away, so pay attention to sun protection during treatment.
Honey glycerin mask (hydrating)
A spoonful of honey and a spoonful of glycerin are mixed with two spoonfuls of water, and it becomes a mask. When in use, gently apply the mask to face and neck to form a film, and carefully remove the mask after 20-25 minutes. This mask can be used for normal and dry aging skin, 1-2 times a week, 30-45 days as a course of treatment.
Honey Tomato Mask (Whitening and Wrinkling)
Mash tomatoes to get juice, add proper amount of honey and a little flour to make paste, and apply it on the face for 20-30 minutes. Long-term use has the effects of moistening, whitening, softening skin, removing spots and wrinkles, and treating skin acne.
Honey lemon mask (sunscreen)
One raw egg, one spoonful of honey, half a lemon and a proper amount of flour, mix and stir into a paste, put it on your face to sleep, and wash it with warm water the next day. Insist on using it, and the sunscreen effect is remarkable.
Honey sauce
Honey can replenish nutrients to the skin and keep the skin elastic, so it is also called "nutritional dressing". Add honey to flour or wheat flour, stir it into paste, wash it and apply it to your face, and wash it off with warm water for about 30 minutes. Because honey has an odor, you can add a few drops of lemon juice to reduce the taste.
Honey Yogurt Mask (astringent pores)
1, honey and yogurt are mixed together according to the ratio of 1: 1, applied to the face, 15 minutes later, washed off with clear water. This mask is astringent.
2, yogurt, honey, lemon juice 100 mg each, add 5 capsules of vitamin E and mix well, apply it to the face and keep it 15 minutes, then wash it with water. This method can promote the shedding of dead cells and the regeneration of new cells on the skin surface, thus achieving the purpose of bodybuilding.
Third, honey facial beauty method
Take high-quality natural honey that is fresh, pure, light in color and difficult to crystallize, and put it in a small-mouth beauty glass container (it must be put in the refrigerator storage room in hot summer).
Every time you wash your face, first wash your face with warm water, then pour a proper amount of honey into your palm, rub your palms together (if you feel too thick, dip your fingertips in a little water and mix them evenly), and then massage your face in circles with your hands, focusing on the following parts: at the crow's feet around your eyes, massage in circles with your fingertips; Lift your forehead for vertical massage; Massage the nose wing and both sides of the nose wing in circles, and massage the edge of the nose wing up and down; Massage the neck from bottom to top; Massage up and down on both sides of the ear; Massage around the mouth in figure 8 or inverted figure 8. After massage, wash with warm water and apply nutritious skin care products.
Honey cleansing is not only simple and convenient, but also has a remarkable cosmetic effect. If you persist for more than 1 week, you can obviously feel that your face is white and delicate, naturally ruddy, full of luster and wrinkles are reduced. After use, the skin does not feel tight, comfortable and natural, and the effect is particularly obvious after long-term use. Honey cleansing can also prevent and treat skin allergy and dry skin. At the same time, it is best to take royal jelly honey orally every morning and evening.
Fourth, honey diet
Honey is a natural nutrient, which contains good sugar, vitamins and minerals, and can burn human energy. As long as you add a little honey to three meals a day, you can avoid the accumulation of fat in the human body.
Honey has excellent sterilization effect and detoxification effect, which helps to discharge the waste accumulated in the body, improve the metabolic function of the whole body, and make the excess fat accumulated in the body burn as energy because it cannot be consumed well. If the sugar in honey can be transported from the stomach to the blood, it will become energy and quickly eliminate fatigue. With the increase of blood sugar level, the feeling of fasting disappears.
First, honey and white vinegar to lose weight:
The ratio of honey to white vinegar should be 1: 4 when the daily diet remains unchanged. The specific method is as follows:
1, 20 minutes before breakfast on an empty stomach.
2. Drink immediately after lunch and dinner.
Note: When choosing white vinegar, rice, sorghum and soybean should be used as raw materials. And try to avoid chemicals. At the same time, it is recommended not to use fruit vinegar, because fruit vinegar is health vinegar, so it is better to lose weight. The ratio of honey to white vinegar can be adjusted according to personal needs.
B, drink water before breakfast and add honey, and eat a small amount of porridge for lunch and dinner. Most people feel relaxed and happy after eating honey for two days. After five days, you can eat noodles that are easy to digest, and then slowly return to your original diet. Honey can eliminate the garbage in the body and restore the original metabolic function of the human body.
Other cosmetic uses of honey
1. Use honey as a nutritional seasoning.
Add honey to flour, make it into paste, apply it to your face when you wash your face, and wash it with warm water after 30 minutes. Honey is not irritating to the skin, and it is very effective in maintaining the skin.
2, honey can eliminate acne
After washing your face, dip a cotton swab in a small amount of honey and apply it directly to the acne. Use it before going to bed. Very effective.
Honey contains a lot of vitamins, amino acids and various active substances, which can regulate endocrine, inhibit sebaceous glands from secreting excessive fat, improve fatty acid metabolism, improve blood circulation, enhance capillary function and promote blood to transport nutrients to the skin layer. Honey also has a good antibacterial and bactericidal effect, which can effectively inhibit and kill bacteria in hair follicles. Therefore, honey will not only promote the production of acne, but also prevent acne and make the skin smooth and moist.
Step 3 make ice bath essence with honey
Soap contains alkalinity, which will wash off skin fat and add a little honey to remedy it.
4. Massage your body with honey
The viscosity of honey can prevent skin moisture from evaporating. Apply honey to the neck, back, forehead and other parts. Being skinned by the sun and gently massaging can improve immediately. Add olive oil or baby oil to honey, gently massage on the face, honey can penetrate into the skin. Unconsciously, due to the nourishment of honey, it will not only change from rough to delicate, but also be full of luster.
Step 5 Moisturize your skin before taking a bath
Maintain with honey before bathing. Before taking a bath, apply honey all over your body, especially on the soles of your feet and knees. A little more elbows and other parts. /kloc-after 0/0 minutes, soak in the bathtub and wash it again with soap or shower gel. After taking a shower, you will feel that you are covered with cream.
6, honey beauty elements
Mix a spoonful of honey with half a cup of milk. After washing your hair, massage your head with this mixture. After washing 15 minutes, the hair will become smooth.
7. Honey Beauty Liquid
A, take honey and dilute it with 2 times of water, smear it on your face every day, and then gently massage it with your hands, which can make your skin smooth and tender, reduce wrinkles, keep it natural and rosy, and prevent new wrinkles.
B, 50 grams of honey, an egg white, stirred and put in a bottle for sealed use, which can be used for about a week. Store it in the refrigerator in summer, pour a little on the palm of your hand, evenly spread it on your face, let it stand for half an hour and wash it with water, which can tighten facial skin, eliminate wrinkles, increase nutrition and clean and whiten skin. Once in the morning and once in the evening for one month, the facial skin is smooth, delicate and fair, and the effect is better after long-term use.
8. Homemade honey cream
A, cook apples, mash them, add honey and cream to make a moisturizing mask cream and apply it to your face. Long-term use can make the skin clean as jade.
B, 30 grams of honey, one tablespoon of lemon juice, half a tablespoon of sweet almonds, two egg whites, and a proper amount of starch can be made into ointment, which can moisturize the skin and increase elasticity.
Six, honey to treat colds
What we commonly call "cold" or "cold" refers to the infection of nose, pharynx and larynx (upper respiratory tract infection), which is the most common respiratory infectious disease and can be divided into two categories: viral and bacterial due to different pathogens. Viruses account for more than 90% of the incidence of upper respiratory diseases, and are generally spread through droplets containing viruses or contaminated instruments; Bacterial infection can be directly infected or secondary to viral infection, and hemolytic streptococcus is the most common. The clinical manifestations are fever, aversion to cold, headache, stuffy nose, runny nose, cough, sore throat and hoarseness. Its treatment policy is to relieve the disease quickly, shorten the course of disease and prevent complications. Bee products and their formulas have a good preventive effect on this.
1, honey ginger cold drink
Formula: appropriate amount of honey and ginger juice.
Usage: Mix honey and ginger juice at the ratio of 1: 1.
Indications: Common cold.
2. Lemon honey tea
Formula: honey 100g, lemon 1.
Usage: Juice lemon, dissolve it in 800 ml boiling water, and mix it with 100 g honey as the dosage of 1 day.
Indications: Influenza or common cold.
3. Fresh honey black tea
Formula: 60 grams of honey and appropriate amount of black tea.
Usage: 60 grams of honey, brewed with strong tea.
Indications: Influenza or common cold.
4. Garlic and honey drinks
Formula: appropriate amount of honey and garlic.
Usage: Peel garlic, wash it, grind it, add the same amount of honey and mix well; Twice a day, each time 1 spoon of garlic honey, take it with warm water.
Indications: Influenza.
5. Baiju honey tea
Formula: appropriate amount of honey propolis aqueous solution (purchased by local bee products company), chrysanthemum1g.
Usage: brew Chrysanthemum morifolium with 65,438+0 cups of boiling water, and when the water temperature drops to 40℃, add 65,438+05g honey and 5 ~ 65,438+00 drops of propolis aqueous solution to mix the tea.
Indications: Indications for colds.
6, honey milk herbal tea
Formula: honey 15g, milk 1 cup.
Usage: Boil fresh milk, add honey to drink when the temperature drops to 60℃, twice a day.
Indications: cold.
7. Uncaria honey tea
Formula: honey, Uncaria rhynchophylla 15g, green tea1g.
Usage: add 500 ml of water to Uncaria rhynchophylla, boil for 3 minutes, remove residue, and add honey and green tea; Take 1 dose every day, and take it warm for three times.
Indications: Influenza.
Description: Influenza is caused by virus, which is characterized by nasal congestion, sneezing, sore throat, hoarseness, cough, fever, headache, general pain and leukopenia in peripheral blood. , and there is a popular trend.
The common cold, that is, "cold", is mostly caused by viruses, and its general manifestations are milder than influenza, such as headache, toothache and fever.
Seven, honey and milk to alleviate and eliminate dysmenorrhea
Drinking a cup of hot milk with a spoonful of honey before going to bed every night can relieve or even eliminate the pain of dysmenorrhea. Because milk contains more potassium, honey is rich in magnesium. Studies have shown that potassium plays an important role in the conduction of nerve impulses and the coagulation of blood. It can relieve mood, inhibit pain, prevent infection and reduce menstrual blood loss. Magnesium has a sedative effect on the central nervous system of the brain, which can regulate psychology, eliminate tension and reduce stress.
Here's another thing:
Another way to deal with dysmenorrhea is to take vitamins. B vitamins, especially B6, have a significant effect on premenstrual tension, which can stabilize mood, help sleep, make people energetic and relieve abdominal pain. Bananas contain more B vitamins. JM with dysmenorrhea might as well eat more and try to see if it has any effect.
Eight, identify fake and shoddy honey
Fresh honey is a transparent and translucent viscous liquid at room temperature and can be crystallized at low temperature. It has a unique color, fragrance and taste, and there should be no impurities such as peculiar smell, dead bees and wax chips.
The main substances mixed in adulterated honey are sucrose, artificial invert sugar, maltose, starch, salt, urea, carboxymethyl cellulose and so on. Honey mixed with sucrose syrup is bright in color, light yellow, light in taste, thick in syrup and thin in taste; Honey directly mixed with sugar has low viscosity and light color, and undissolved sugar particles can be seen at the bottom. Honey mixed with artificially transformed sugar has a low viscosity and a sugary taste, and loses the fragrance of honey. Honey mixed with maltose is not only fragrant but also not sweet. Honey mixed with starch is usually made by boiling starch or rice soup into paste, adding sugar and then adding it to honey. This kind of honey is turbid and has a light honey taste, but it is still turbid after being diluted with water. Honey is diluted with salt, low viscosity and salty. If mixed with more salt, sodium chloride crystals can precipitate. Honey mixed with urea is thick, rare, sweet and salty. The honey mixed with carboxymethyl cellulose is dark yellow, viscous and almost saturated colloidal solution, with massive brittle suspension and white colloidal particles at the bottom, which has impure sweetness, sticky tongue and pungent smell.
Honey contains many nutrients such as sugar, pollen, protein, amino acids, organic acids, enzymes, hormones, vitamins, etc. It is an advanced nutritional tonic.
Characteristics of high-quality honey:
(1) color: light color. A small amount of honey is put into a slender colorless transparent glass tube, which is white under scattered light, with uniform color from top to bottom and high transparency.
(2) Concentration and viscosity: high concentration and high viscosity. Touching the liquid level of honey with chopsticks feels good elasticity; When the honey is picked up, the honey juice on the chopstick head forms a whole with the liquid level.
The thin, long and very tense filaments with broken roots quickly shrink into beads, indicating that the viscosity and concentration of honey are very high.
(3) taste: the taste is positive. Take a little honey and put it on your tongue to taste, and you can feel the sweet and pure aroma.
(4) Water solubility: When honey is mixed with water, there is still no precipitation after one day.
(5) Heating: When a red-hot thick iron wire is inserted into honey, gas will be released.
Characteristics of inferior honey:
(1) color: observed under scattered light, the color is dark and the transparency is poor.
2) Concentration and viscosity: Both concentration and viscosity are small, and water stains will be left when dipped in filter paper.
Traces of; You can't stretch it when you pick it up, and you can't shrink it into beads after you break it.
(3) Taste: the taste is not heavy, the aroma is not strong, and it even has sour taste or wine taste.
(4) Bubbles: There are suspended bubbles in honey, and even many bubbles accumulate on the liquid surface.
(5) Heating: insert the red-hot iron wire into the honey to release smoke.
(6) Water solubility: It will precipitate when mixed with water.
Nine, how to easily identify fake honey?
Fake honey is usually made by mixing water, sucrose, maltose or starch. Here are some simple ways to identify fake honey:
Simple detection method:
Take 1 part of honey, put it in a glass, add 5-6 parts of cold boiled water, dilute and stir, let it stand 1 day, and observe. If there is sediment, it proves to be fake honey. Another method is to take a small amount of honey, put it on a clean glass slide, heat it with fire, stop heating after the water evaporates, and observe it after natural cooling. If the residue is soft, it means pure honey; If the residue is hard and brittle, it means honey mixed with sucrose.
Identification of honey mixed with starch;
Put 2 grams of honey into a test tube, add 20 ml of distilled water, heat it with an alcohol lamp and boil it. After cooling, add 2 drops of iodine. If it is blue or green, it means that honey is mixed with starch.
Identification of honey mixed with maltose;
Take 1 part honey, add 4 parts water, stir well, and gradually add alcohol. If white flocs appear, it means that maltose is mixed in honey; Or only cloudy without white floc, indicating that there is no maltose mixed in honey.
Identification of honey mixed with sucrose;
Honey mixed with sucrose such as white sugar or brown sugar tastes sweet, but has a short aftertaste and a poor smell. From the consistency point of view, insert a chopstick into honey and place it vertically. Pure honey drips slowly, sticky and has a hanging line. Honey mixed with sucrose has fast dripping speed, low viscosity and no thread hanging. Honey mixed with sucrose has a hard crystal plate, which is not easy to crush with finger friction, and has a sense of sand, which is not easy to dissolve in the mouth; However, pure honey crystals are soft, and there is no sense of sand when twisted by hand, and the crystals dissolve quickly when put into the mouth.
Identification of honey mixed with water;
The biggest feature of honey mixed with water is that it is thin, so it is easy to scoop it up or pour it down with a spoon; If you feel little resistance when stirring with a glass stick or wooden stick, insert the glass stick or wooden stick into the honey and lift it quickly, and the honey on the stick will flow down quickly, and the dripping honey will not retract upward.