Honey
Honey is natures best naturopathic remedy - and a real good one to take, too Did you know, that it takes 2000 bees to collect the whole summer to produce 1 pound of honey?
The
taste of honey relates strongly where and when the bees collected the pollen.
There is a spring honey as well as a summer honey. We differ between
pine-.honey, akacia-honey and much more. The best honey is the one that
is gained by centrifugation without any application of heat. Honey has
always healing qualities, no matter whether it is solid or liquid or
where it comes from, as long as it is not artificially treated. Another
thing that makes the honey loose it‘s healing properties is, to heat it
to more than 106 ° F.
When harvested, honey has to be ripe. If it is
taken out of the bee house too early, it contains too much water, will
loose its fine scent very fast, start fermenting and become inedible.
Ripe honey has a lot of formic acid - that is especially important if
you want to use honey‘s antibacterial property.
If you want to
test by yourself, whether you got the right honey , that does not
contain too much water, then you should put one drop of honey on a
clean glass plate. If starts running right away, it contains water. If
it sticks as a little ball it‘s just right.
The best way to buy the natural product is from the bee-keeper himself.
Beware of artificial honey, it does not at all provide what you may expect from the real stuff.
Honey as a naturopathic remedy is diluting, healing, wound cleansing and vigorating.
There
is honey cure that can be tried by everyone who has a heart condition
or who might not regain former strength after a long illness.
For 10
weeks you should take 3 times a day, always one hour before meals 1/2 a
cup of herb tea (Chamomile and Yarrow: 1/2 a teaspoon per helping) with
the following dosage of honey:
1st week 1/2 a teaspoon full of honey
2nd week 1 teaspoon full of honey
3rd week 1+1/2 teaspoon full of honey
4th through 7th week 2 teaspoons full of honey
8th week 1+1/2 teaspoon full of honey
9th week 1 teaspoon full of honey
10th week 1/2 a teaspoon full of honey
This cure can deliberately repeated after a break of 2-3 weeks
Honey as a naturopathic remedy
Honey - a remedy against constipation
Honey - a remedy for diarrhea
Ripe blueberries are put 4-5 weeks into honey. Press the mixture to obtain „blueberry-honey“ In case of diarrhea take up to six teaspoons a day.
Honey - a remedy for fever
Mix 1 cup of vine vinegar and 1 cup of honey with 1 pint lukewarm water, use as an enema
Honey - a remedy for asthma
Mix 1 cup of fresh grated horseradish with 1 cup of honey and take 1 teaspoon full before sleeping.
Honey - a remedy for coughing and colds
Pine-butts-Tea: A handful of fresh harvested pine butts are scalded with hot water. Cool down to 100 °F and add 2 tablespoons of honey
Honey - a remedy for stress
1. Put 1 tablespoon full of honey into 1/2 pint of fresh pressed apple juice
2. Cook oats with water and add honey for every pint add 2 tablespoons
3. or just drink lukewarm water with honey
Honey - the remedy for school stress
Peel an apple, cut it into dices, scald with 1/2 pint of boiling water, let it cool down and add 1 tablespoon full of honey. Let the child first drink the juice and then eat the apple dices. It‘s good for the nerves...
External use of honey
Honey has a strong disinfecting, antibacterial property.
On a lot of skin conditions you can make a poultice with honey
Eczema, abscess or after a besting, once the sting has been removed, a poultice with a linen and honey gives relief.
Sore nail beds (Panaritium) should be bathed in card soap water and afterwards padded with honey
With barbers itch you first make a poultice with shave grass decoction ( 1/2 cup of shave grass is cooked for 20 minutes, strained and cooled down and applied on a clean cloth) Poultice is put on for 20 minutes. Afterwards honey is applied for another 20 minutes
Burnt and scalded skin should be immediately treated with honey. This helps prevent blisters and pain and promotes scar-free healing. To the honey also could be mixed some quince meal: for that crushed quince stones are mixed with a cup of cooked and cooled water.
If wounds tend not to heal finely minced carrot greens mixed with acacia honey can be used as a poultice.
Swollen glands: Gargle lukewarm sage tea mixed with honey or make a poultice of vaporized shave grass with Quark and honey
On ulcers you may also try the following poultice: Mince black root and mix with honey. Heat this mixture to be lukewarm and put a thin layer of this mixture on a cloth. Make a poultice on the ulcer to clear it.
For tired eyes it helps to take fennel or eye bright tea to make a poultice of the eyes.
A poultice of vermouth tea or rosemary tea mixed with honey is said to strengthen the eyes.
Honey for the Beauty
A honey mask
mix 1 teaspoon full of honey with 2 tablespoons full of oats and olive oil to make it a cream. Put on face, throat and décolleté, wash off after 30 minutes and apply almond oil (eventually add 1 capsule of Vitamin E)
Honey poultice to fight the wrinkles:
Heat up bee wax that it becomes liquid. Add 3 tablespoons full of white lily juice and the juice of one medium size onion and 4 tablespoons full of honey. Apply and let sit over night...
Honey for cracks in the skin of the feet?
Put honey on the skin - over night - but cover well! or you can take a comfrey-ointment, mix it with honey and apply over night
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