The efficacy of honey
1. Baihua honey
Collected in hundreds of flowers, it is a complete collection of flowers. Sweet and moist, nutritious and nourishing, it has the effects of clearing away heat, nourishing the middle energizer, detoxifying and moistening dryness, and astringing honey. It is a traditional honey variety.
2. Winter honey
This kind of nectar comes from the traditional Chinese medicine tree, Yajiaomu, which is a unique winter nectar variety in Lingnan. So it is commonly known as "winter honey". Light amber color, easy crystallization, excellent texture, sweet and slightly bitter taste. Honey not only has the effects of clearing away heat, tonifying middle warmer, detoxifying and moistening dryness, but also has the effects of sweating and relieving exterior syndrome, which can dispel wind and remove dampness, and has a good auxiliary effect on colds, fever, sore throat and rheumatic joint pain. It is a honey variety with Chinese medicine characteristics and is deeply loved by people in Southeast Asia.
3. longan honey
Honey varieties endemic to South China. It has the fragrance of longan. The product has the effects of nourishing blood, tranquilizing mind, stimulating appetite, caring skin, clearing away heat and moistening dryness, and invigorating middle warmer. Especially suitable for women.
4. litchi honey
Litchi is rich in the south and is known as the "king of fruits". Litchi honey is collected from the nectar of litchi stamens, which is fragrant and sweet, with a slight sour taste of litchi fruit. It has the special effects of promoting fluid production, nourishing blood, regulating qi, tonifying middle energizer and moistening dryness, and it is not as hot as litchi. It is a kind of honey unique to Lingnan, and it is a special honey for friends and relatives far away.
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5. Tilia honey
It is a unique honey variety in Northeast China, with light amber color, rich fragrance and easy crystallization. This product has the effects of nourishing stomach, tonifying deficiency, clearing away heat, invigorating middle warmer, detoxicating and moistening dryness. It has a certain calming effect. It is deeply loved by Europeans and is a rare forest honey seed.
6.astragalus honey
Also known as safflower honey or grass seed honey, it is the main honey variety in southern China in spring. It has a natural fresh and pleasant grass fragrance, sweet but not greasy, fresh and clean, sweet, and the color is light amber. This product has the special effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, dispelling pathogenic wind, improving eyesight, nourishing the middle warmer, moistening dryness, reducing swelling and diuresis, and has certain auxiliary effects on cough due to wind phlegm, sore throat and hemorrhoids caused by excessive internal heat. It is a good health care product for people with exuberant deficiency fire.
7. Sophora japonica honey
This is the honey seed in spring. The water is white and transparent, sticky, not easy to crystallize, with a faint scent of Sophora japonica, sweet and fresh, and the fragrance is palatable. This product has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, maintaining normal resistance of capillaries, lowering blood pressure, preventing apoplexy, clearing away heat, invigorating middle energizer, detoxifying and moistening dryness. The top grade in honey. Is more suitable for health care of cardiovascular patients.
8. osmanthus honey
Rare honey seeds. The nectar of wild osmanthus fragrans, which blooms and secretes honey in winter in the deep mountain forest, is fragrant and moist, pure and elegant, fresh and clean in taste, sweet but not greasy, white and transparent in color and delicate in crystallization. Known as the "king of honey". Osmanthus fragrans is also a valuable Chinese herbal medicine. According to the dictionary of traditional Chinese medicine, the sweet-scented osmanthus of Toona sinensis has been proved to have good nutrition and health care functions. Sweet-scented osmanthus honey also has the functions of clearing away heat, tonifying middle energizer, detoxifying and moistening dryness, and is deeply loved by people at home and abroad. In ancient times, it was a tribute to the palace.
The role of honey
9. Coptis chinensis honey
The nectar of Coptis chinensis collected from Chinese herbal medicine nature reserve inherits the medicinal properties of Coptis chinensis and the characteristics of honey, which not only has the health care and nutritional value of natural honey, but also has the medicinal efficacy of this precious Chinese medicine. Coptis chinensis honey is light yellow in color, special in fragrance, slightly bitter in sweetness, sweet but not greasy, which is really a good medicine without bitterness, but its curative effect still exists. This product has the unique effects of clearing away heat, eliminating dampness, purging pathogenic fire, detoxicating, resisting bacteria and diminishing inflammation, and has the effects of calming, cooling and removing fire, and is especially suitable for dietotherapy and health care of people who drink too much, have a strong heart fire and are restless at ordinary times.
10. Gallnut honey
Chinese medicine honey seed. Galla chinensis nectar, collected from astringent intestines to stop diarrhea, is slightly dark in color, sweet in taste and slightly fragrant in traditional Chinese medicine. This product has the functions of detoxification, antidiarrheal, sterilization and astringency, and has a good auxiliary treatment 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 physical weakness, lung deficiency, kidney deficiency, chronic diarrhea and dysentery, hemorrhoids and hematochezia.
1 1. Patchouli honey
It is brewed by bees from the nectar of a rare wild Chinese medicine-Pogostemon cablin. Honey is amber, with a unique smell and the aroma of traditional Chinese medicine. Because of the composition and medicinal properties of Pogostemon cablin honey, it inherits the Chinese herbal medicine Pogostemon cablin. Therefore, this product is not only generally suitable for nutrition and health care, but also has a good auxiliary effect on relieving summer damp-heat, gastrointestinal discomfort, nausea and vomiting, and clearing away heat and toxic materials. It is an ideal dietotherapy health care product for people with poor gastrointestinal function, dyspepsia and weak constitution.
12. Orange honey
This product is collected from the nectar of citrus, with light yellow color, rich orange blossom aroma, sweet and slightly sour taste, fresh and refreshing. The product has the effects of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, sobering up, promoting diuresis, benefiting stomach heat, removing toxic substances and relieving vexation. At the same time, it also has the effects of beauty beauty, resolving phlegm and resolving hard mass, nourishing the middle energizer and moistening dryness. This product is suitable for patients with spleen and stomach dryness, abdominal distension and gastrointestinal diseases.
The function and efficacy of honey
13. Danshen honey
Salvia Miltiorrhiza honey is a pure natural honey brewed by bees from the flowers of Salvia Miltiorrhiza. It has the effect of "promoting blood production and eliminating pathogenic blood" and is suitable for women with irregular menstruation and menstrual abdominal pain. In addition, Salvia Miltiorrhiza honey can also "cool blood and reduce swelling, clear heart and remove troubles".
14. Astragalus honey
Astragalus membranaceus is one of the essential drugs for treating qi deficiency. Astragalus honey, collected from natural bees of Astragalus, has the effects of benefiting middle warmer, consolidating exterior, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, thus playing the roles of promoting middle warmer, promoting diuresis, relieving nephritis, lowering blood pressure and strengthening the body. It can replenish qi and consolidate exterior, and is suitable for patients with qi deficiency and hyperhidrosis.
15. platycodon grandiflorum honey
Platycodon grandiflorum is the main medicine for the treatment of sore throat, which has the effects of dispersing lung qi, eliminating pathogenic factors, resolving phlegm and discharging pus. Platycodon grandiflorum honey comes from natural platycodon grandiflorum nectar, which not only has the effects of clearing away heat, nourishing the middle energizer and moistening dryness, but also is a good dietotherapy product suitable for exogenous cough, chest tightness and excessive phlegm.
16. Loquat honey
Loquat honey is an industrious bee that collects nectar from flowering loquat and is brewed by bees. Sweet and catchy, the top grade in honey juice. Loquat honey has the effect of "mainly treating cough due to lung heat, vomiting due to stomach heat, hot annoyance and thirst", and has the health care effects of clearing away lung heat and resolving phlegm, relieving cough and asthma, and is an ideal choice for patients with cold, cough and excessive phlegm.
Efficacy analysis of 20 kinds of honey
17. codonopsis pilosula honey
It is brewed by bees with nectar of codonopsis pilosula, a valuable Chinese herbal medicine. 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. It has auxiliary effects on spleen and stomach weakness, deficiency of both qi and blood, mental fatigue, metrorrhagia and anemia. Suitable for people with physical weakness, stomach cold, chronic gastritis and anemia.
18. motherwort honey
Motherwort honey 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 postpartum menorrhagia, 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.
Lycium barbarum honey
It comes from the main producing area of Lycium barbarum, a precious Chinese herbal medicine in China, and is brewed from honey collected by bees. This product not only has the traditional nutritional and health care value of honey, but also is the essence of Lycium barbarum. Has the effects of invigorating kidney, replenishing essence, nourishing liver, improving eyesight, moistening lung and relieving cough. This product is suitable for people with deficiency of both qi and blood, hypertension, physical weakness, decreased vision, anemia, chronic hepatitis, toxic or metabolic liver disease, liver dysfunction caused by biliary system, etc. It is especially suitable for men with kidney deficiency, lumbago, nocturnal emission and busy work.
20. Cauliflower honey
Light fat color, slightly turbid, with the aroma of rape flowers, slightly spicy, reduced after storage for a long time, sweet and moist, easy to crystallize, milky white after crystallization, fine or oily; Warm in nature, it has the functions of promoting blood circulation, breaking qi, reducing swelling, dispersing stagnation, nourishing blood and strengthening the body.
How to choose good honey
The purchase rule of good honey
1. Look at gloss and viscosity.
Good honey is clear and bright as oil. When you shake the honey bottle, the vibration is very small. After stopping shaking, the * * * hanging on the bottle wall will slowly flow down.
Smell
It's really sweet, and different nectar can smell the unique floral fragrance after brewing. Each kind of honey has a unique fragrance, and the nectar is pure and single, which is mostly the same as its floral fragrance. If the fermentation goes bad, you can smell sour or alcohol; If more sugar, maltose or starch is added, the unique aroma of nectar will be lost.
Dumping honey bottles
High quality honey is sticky because of its low water content. If the sealed honey bottle is turned upside down, it will be found that the air sealed at the bottle mouth is difficult to float bubbles.
The purchase rule of good honey
Pull "honey silk"
Stir some honey with a spoon or toothpick, and lick it. Real honey can usually pull out thin and translucent "honey filaments", which will automatically retract after being broken, showing a spherical shape.
5. Grinding particles
Buy milky white or light yellow natural "crystal honey", you can grind the selected part of the crystal on your fingertips. The crystal particles of true honey are delicate and will melt completely; The crystal particles of fake honey are hard, forming a ball, and the fingertips will leave particles that are not easy to melt after grinding.
Step 6 taste it
Real honey tastes sweet and greasy, and some honey tastes slightly sour. Honey tastes like honey and sugar tastes like sugar. Pure honey tastes sweet and slightly sour, and the taste is soft and delicate. The honey taste of fake honey is light, and the aftertaste is light and short. For example, honey mixed with sucrose has a short aftertaste and a strong syrup flavor; Honey mixed with urea tastes sweet and salty; Honey mixed with thickener has a sticky taste and a * * * smell.