Honey contains a lot of sugar and beneficial components, which has anti-inflammatory and antibacterial pharmacological effects. Clinically, honey can be combined with the main medicine to treat many diseases. This is recorded in the article Modern Research and Application of Honey by Gu et al. However, the amount of these functional factors we can drink from a cup of honey water is very small, which can not achieve the effect of treating diseases and beautifying. If you really want to achieve the efficacy of honey, you need to extract these functional factors, make them into drugs or health products, and take them regularly and quantitatively.
The main components of honey are fructose and glucose. In short, honey is basically a mixture of sugar water, and there are basically no substances necessary for the human body. So we usually drink a cup of honey water and supplement some carbohydrates and water, which has little effect. Some people say that if I drink honey every day and drink a cup of honey every meal, can I achieve the effect of recycling? If you drink honey every day, it will only be counterproductive and will not achieve the expected effect. Any food should be controlled, and so should honey. Excessive intake of honey may be harmful to human body.
So honey is really useless? Actually, it's not. Honey has two real functions: one is to supplement physical strength. Although the function of honey water is relatively small, we can't deny that honey water still contains many beneficial ingredients, such as minerals, organic acids and vitamins. Moderate drinking can replenish physical strength. The second is to stop coughing. After modern pharmacological research, honey has a certain antitussive effect, so people with mild cough or throat discomfort can drink some honey appropriately.