The time for taking honey is generally 1 ~ 1.5 hours before meals or 2-3 hours after meals. However, for patients with gastrointestinal diseases, the eating time should be determined according to the condition in order to play its medical role. Patients with gastric acid deficiency or atrophic gastritis should eat immediately after taking cold honey water. People with neurasthenia can take honey before going to bed every day to promote sleep.
Making honey water:
Ingredients: honey: 10g-20g, boiling water: 120ml- 150ml.
Steps:
1, honey, cups and boiled water need to be prepared.
2. Pour 1-2 tablespoons of honey (about 10-20g) into the cup.
3. Cool the boiling water to 60-80 degrees and pour it into the cup. Control the boiling water at 120ml- 150ml, and brew according to your own taste.
4. Stir well with a spoon and drink.
The best time to drink honey water:
1, get up and drink in the morning
Drinking a cup of honey water every morning can form a habit, moisten the intestines and relax the bowels, and can also quickly eliminate hunger and fatigue of the human body.
Specific practice: After getting up in the morning, scoop a spoonful of cold boiled water or 30-degree warm boiled water.
Step 2 drink after meals
Honey can regulate gastrointestinal function and make gastric acid secretion normal. After eating, especially after satiety, the digestive function of the stomach is easy to decline and the peristalsis of the large intestine is weakened.
3. Drink at three or four in the afternoon
At three or four o'clock every afternoon, people are most likely to be tired and hungry. This time period is just between lunch and dinner. At this time, you can soak a cup of warm honey water and replenish sugar and energy in time, so that you can be more energetic and reduce the amount of dinner.
Step 4 drink before going to bed
It is a common saying in Chinese medicine to have a glass of normal saline on an empty stomach in the morning and a glass of honey water before going to bed at night. Glucose and vitamins in honey can relieve nervous tension, promote sleep and relieve mood, and there are no side effects.
Taboos for drinking honey water
1, it is not advisable to drink honey water on an empty stomach.
Honey belongs to sweets, sweets will increase the secretion of gastric acid, and hyperacidity is harmful to gastric mucosa. Drinking honey water on an empty stomach for a long time is easy to increase the acidity in the body. After a long time, you will have too much stomach acid and get gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer. So it is best not to drink honey water on an empty stomach. It is recommended to drink after meals.
2. Don't brew honey with boiling water.
Drink honey with warm water, and the water temperature should not exceed 60℃. If high-temperature boiling water rushes into honey, it will not only destroy its rich nutrients, but also lead to changes in its natural color, fragrance and taste.
3, taboo excessive consumption
Normal adults should eat about 20 ~ 25g of honey every day. Because glucose and fructose in honey are monosaccharides, they can be directly absorbed into the blood by the human body. If you eat a lot of honey at a time, your blood sugar can rise rapidly. Long-term excessive consumption of honey will lead to insufficient insulin secretion and easily lead to diabetes.
4. Avoid using metal cups to flush honey water.
Because honey is a weakly acidic liquid, it is easy to oxidize when it comes into contact with metals, and free metal elements such as iron, lead, zinc and aluminum are precipitated. , make the color of honey black, and the nutrients are destroyed.
5. Honey should not be eaten with leeks.
Leek is rich in vitamin C, which is easily oxidized by copper and iron in honey and loses its function. In addition, honey can relieve constipation, and leek is rich in cellulose to induce diarrhea, which is easy to cause diarrhea.
6. Honey should not be eaten with tofu.
Tofu is sweet, salty and cold, which can clear away heat and disperse blood. Eating with honey is easy to have diarrhea. At the same time, many enzymes in honey and many minerals, plant proteins and organic acids in tofu are not conducive to the biochemical reaction of human body.