As the saying goes, a good medicine tastes bitter and is good for the disease. But honey is a special case. It is good for health and can cure many diseases, but it is sweet but not bitter. Before the invention of sucrose, honey was the most important sweetener and tonic, and honey and other bee products were most closely related to traditional Chinese medicine. For a long time, honey has been the main medicine in many prescriptions, and royal jelly, propolis and beeswax are rare medicines.

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Honey contains natural antibacterial and antiviral active ingredients, which can not only prevent corrosion, but also bond powder and reduce the side effects and toxicity of drugs. Therefore, most of the ancient Chinese patent medicines used honey as auxiliary materials, and many pills were honey pills.

Honey tonifies deficiency and nourishes essence: Chinese medicine believes that sweet taste has the function of tonifying deficiency, so-called sweetness can tonify deficiency. Honey is mainly fructose and glucose. Sugar can provide energy for human beings. Compared with starch or fatty foods, it is easier to be absorbed, which is conducive to reducing the burden on the digestive system. Honey contains a lot of vitamins and active substances, and its nutrition is also very comprehensive. It is an ideal food for nourishing the body, mainly nourishing the spleen and stomach in the five internal organs.

Honey supplements deficiency and moistens dryness: honey has the characteristics of moistening dryness and nourishing, and can keep the body moist after taking it. Mainly nourishing yin, it can treat dry stool, dry skin, dry throat or dry cough and hemoptysis. Honey is suitable for constipation such as heat accumulation, yin deficiency or blood deficiency, but it is not ideal for constipation caused by damp heat or other reasons. Fortunately, it is food itself, and eating it does no harm at all.

Complement and harmony of honey: another function of sweetness is harmony. Harmony has two meanings, relaxation and neutralization. Relieving means that the sweet taste can relieve the body's symptoms such as urgency, irritation, pain and spasm; Neutralization means that honey can neutralize the toxic and side effects of other drugs and solve all kinds of drug poisoning and food poisoning.

Honey can diminish inflammation and detoxify: because honey contains a variety of anti-inflammatory and vitamin components, it also contains active components that promote body repair, which is conducive to the healing of body wounds, so it also has a good auxiliary effect on a variety of chronic inflammatory diseases. Honey not only contains many natural detoxification substances, but also has strong liver protection and liver protection components, which is also an important reason why honey can detoxify. Choose the kind of honey according to your own constitution: choose the right kind of honey according to your own constitution. For patients with deficiency of qi and blood or deficiency of spleen and stomach, jujube honey, longan honey, litchi honey and osmanthus honey can be selected; Yin deficiency and blood heat, optional Sophora japonica honey; If the body is cold and wet, you can choose linden honey, Vitex negundo and rape nectar; Liver disease can be selected from Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis honey and Chinese milk vetch honey.