What are the uses of honey and how to use it?
Honey is the most familiar bee product, which is brewed by bees after collecting nectar from plant flowers and returning to their nests. Its color, fragrance and quality vary with flower picking, season and region. It mainly contains more than 60 kinds of inorganic and organic substances needed by human body, including glucose, fructose, enzyme value, protein and 18 amino acids. "Shennong Herbal Classic" records: "Honey is sweet and non-toxic, mainly benefiting qi and tonifying middle energizer. Long-term use will strengthen the body and prolong life. " "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Honey is cool when it is born, so it can clear heat, and it is warm when it is ripe, so it can make up for it; Ganping can detoxify and soften, so it can moisten dryness. Its medicinal functions have five functions: clearing away heat, tonifying the middle energizer, detoxifying, moistening dryness and relieving pain ... "Honey is sweet and delicious, rich in nutrition, and can relieve fatigue, nourish yin and strengthen yang. Modern medicine has proved that it can treat organ diseases such as heart, liver, spleen, kidney, lung and intestine. External use can treat burns, frostbite and moisturize the skin. The series products are: plum blossom honey, osmanthus honey, litchi honey, longan honey, Baihua honey, mountain flower honey, dangshen honey, Lycium barbarum honey, motherwort honey, wild chrysanthemum honey (detoxification honey), Kuding honey and so on. Plum blossom and winter honey: Plum blossom and winter honey has a fragrant smell, and has curative effects on soothing the liver, relieving depression, hypertension, regulating the stomach and resolving phlegm, relieving cough and asthma, moistening the intestines, relaxing bowels, dry mouth and throat, moistening skin and caring skin. Sweet-scented osmanthus and winter honey: Compendium of Materia Medica records that sweet-scented osmanthus honey can "dispel cold, eliminate blood stasis and stop intestinal wind and blood diseases". It is effective in regulating blood pressure, myocardial weakness, gastric ulcer, hepatitis and irregular menstruation. Litchi honey: Litchi is known as the "queen of fruit" in Lingnan. Its honey is delicious, nutritious and moist without the heat of litchi. It is suitable for symptoms such as qi deficiency and blood deficiency, frequent urination, and dry skin. Longan honey: It has the unique fragrance of longan, which can tonify the heart and spleen and replenish qi, and is helpful for palpitation, insomnia and memory loss caused by blood deficiency of heart and spleen. Codonopsis pilosula honey: It is brewed with precious Chinese herbal medicine-Codonopsis pilosula nectar. The taste is sweet and the color is amber. In addition to the characteristics of honey, it is more conducive to invigorating the middle energizer, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and has auxiliary effects on spleen and stomach weakness, deficiency of both qi and blood, mental fatigue, women's bloody collapse and anemia. Suitable for people with physical weakness, stomach cold, chronic gastritis and anemia. Chinese medicine honey seed. Slightly dark in color, sweet in taste and slightly fragrant with traditional Chinese medicine. It has the functions of detoxification, antidiarrheal, sterilization and convergence, and has a good auxiliary effect on deficiency of both lung and kidney, deficiency of both spleen and kidney, shortness of breath and phlegm-fire blocking the lung. It is especially suitable for patients with lack of law, lung deficiency, kidney deficiency, chronic diarrhea and dysentery, hemorrhoids and hematochezia. Eucalyptus honey: a unique honey variety. This honey is light amber and has a strong fragrance. This product has the effects of nourishing stomach, tonifying deficiency, clearing away heat, invigorating middle warmer, detoxifying and moistening dryness, and also has a certain sedative effect. It is deeply loved by Europeans and is a rare forest honey seed. Motherwort honey: it comes from the pollution-free medicinal motherwort producing area in the southwest plateau of China. This product has the effects of removing blood stasis, promoting tissue regeneration, regulating menstruation and promoting blood circulation, and is suitable for women with irregular menstruation and menorrhagia before and after delivery, which fully reflects their care for women. For men, especially patients with hypertension, coronary heart disease and nephropathy, motherwort honey is also an ideal health food for health care and adjuvant therapy. Kuding nectar: it can clear away heat and dispel wind, relieve annoyance and quench thirst, and has a significant effect on acne and greasy. Wild chrysanthemum honey: (detoxification honey) expelling essence and detoxification, expelling wind and clearing heat, diuresis and protecting liver, clearing lung and resolving phlegm. Folk Therapy of Honey (6500 1 1) Zhang Xiaolin Liu Bing Zhu Qin honey is honey brewed by bees. Its main components are fructose and glucose (about 70%), and it also contains amino acids, protein, vitamins, active enzymes and trace elements. Honey can be used both orally and externally, and has therapeutic and health-care effects on many diseases. This taste is sweet and flat, and enters the lung, spleen and large intestine meridians. Compendium of Materia Medica summarizes that honey has five functions: clearing heat, tonifying middle energizer, detoxicating, moistening dryness and relieving pain, and analyzes them: "Being born cool, it can clear heat; Cooked is warm and can be replenished; Ganping, so it can moisten dryness; You can go in a hurry, so that you can stop the pain of heart sores; And can be neutralized, so that hundreds of herbs can be blended and act together with licorice. "People mainly use bees to treat lung dryness, cough, constipation, epigastric pain, burns, aconite poisoning and alcoholism, and beauty beauty. Because treating diseases with honey is simple and effective, it is widely circulated among the people. This paper briefly introduces the folk prescription of treating diseases with bees: 1. Cough: 300g bee and 20g Fritillaria cirrhosa, mixed evenly, taken once 1 teaspoon, 3-4 times a day. It has a good effect on treating chronic cough due to lung dryness and lung deficiency, such as cold cough, pertussis in children and chronic bronchitis. 2. Constipation: 200g of black sesame and 200g of walnut kernel are mashed, mixed with bee 1000g, and taken orally, with 3 spoonfuls each time, morning and evening 1 time, to treat constipation caused by insufficient body fluid and intestinal dryness. It can also be decocted with honey for external use. The preparation and use method is as described in Treatise on Febrile Diseases: honey is heated to make a suppository with a round head and a blunt tail, and then cooled and stuffed into the anus, which has the function of moistening the intestines and relaxing the bowels. 3. Cold: 100g honey, 1 lemon juice, taken together, is effective in treating influenza and common cold. 4. Sore throat: 1 cup of strong tea, 1 spoon of honey, stir to dissolve honey, and take it often to relieve sore throat. 5. Mouth sore: Radix Isatidis 50g is decocted with water, taken with honey, or soaked with honey to treat mouth sore. 6. Gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcer: 500 grams of honey is mixed with 50 grams of licorice and 15 grams of concentrated decoction of dried tangerine peel, twice a day, with 2 spoonfuls each time, which is used to treat chronic gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcer, and has the functions of eliminating inflammation, promoting ulcer surface healing and relieving epigastric pain. 7. Anemia: It is effective for hypochromic anemia. Take 80~ 100g black honey every day, three times. It can significantly increase blood cells and hemoglobin and improve anemia symptoms. 8. Liver disease; Taking 50g honey every morning and evening 1 time has the functions of protecting liver cells, increasing glycogen storage and improving liver function. It can obviously improve anorexia, liver pain, jaundice and other diseases caused by liver disease. 9. Adjust blood pressure and prevent arteriosclerosis: Taking 60g honey and warm water 15~20 days every morning and evening can enhance blood wall elasticity, adjust blood pressure and prevent atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases. If it is used with Sanqi, the effect will be better. 10. detoxification: patients with aconite poisoning or alcoholism should be taken with honey 100g and boiled water. People who often vomit can eat less and take it suddenly after vomiting stops. The detoxification effect is very good. 1 1. Skin trauma, scald and burn: After conventional disinfection and debridement, honey is applied to the affected area 3-5 times a day in the early stage, and it is changed to 1~2 times a day after scabbing, which has the comprehensive functions of reducing exudate, controlling infection, relieving pain and promoting wound healing. For patients with mild or moderate skin trauma, scald and burn, external application of honey can also be used to treat frostbite and chapped skin. 12. diaper dermatitis: after washing the affected area with warm water, apply honey, 1~2 times a day 1 time, which has a good therapeutic effect. 13. Atrophic rhinitis: Wash the nasal cavity with warm boiled water and then wipe the nasal mucosa with honey to treat atrophic rhinitis. Every morning and evening 1 time until the function of nasal mucosa is restored. 14. beauty beauty: Rubbing the skin with honey can moisturize and prevent wrinkles, and keep the skin smooth. You can also use 1 egg, add appropriate amount of honey, rice flour, flour and fruit juice, make a paste and apply it to your face, and wash it with water after 20 minutes. Used twice a week for a long time, it has the beauty effect of prevent wrinkles and keeping skin smooth and tender. Modern pharmacological research and clinical practice show that honey and honey products have antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, nourishing substances needed by human body, promoting metabolism and promoting epithelial cell regeneration. It can effectively adjust the unbalanced state of the body. Honey and bee products have therapeutic and nourishing effects on human respiratory system, digestive system, cardiovascular system, endocrine system, skin and other diseases. Long-term administration can improve and strengthen the physique of patients and improve the immunity and resistance of the body. Today, when we advocate nature and pursue simplicity, honey and bee products are paid more and more attention around the world for their anti-aging and life-prolonging effects. They are natural and ideal therapeutic and health-care drugs. Although this product is good, it should be used with caution for those with phlegm-dampness and diarrhea due to spleen deficiency.