Honey has been considered a longevity food since ancient times, possessing numerous health benefits including skin care and beauty enhancement, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties, promoting tissue regeneration, aiding digestion, improving sleep, protecting the liver and stomach, combating fatigue, promoting children’s growth and development, protecting the cardiovascular system, moisturizing the lungs and relieving coughs, lubricating the intestines and promoting bowel movements, and contributing to longevity. Furthermore, genuine honey can be used as an adjunct treatment for 13 diseases.
First type of adjunctive treatment: Constipation
1. Use 50g rice, 100g banana, 200g banana, and appropriate amount of honey. After cooking the rice into porridge, add the banana cut into small pieces, then add honey. Eat after it cools down. It can lubricate the intestines and relieve constipation, and is most suitable for the elderly and those with habitual constipation.
2. Mix 2-3 tablespoons of honey with 2-3 tablespoons of roasted and finely ground sesame seeds (black sesame seeds are best). Add 200-300 ml of warm or cool water to form a paste. Take orally once in the morning and once in the evening.
3. Take 60 grams of honey, 30 grams each morning and evening, dissolved in cool boiled water. This is suitable for constipation in the elderly, pregnant women, and those with habitual constipation.
4. Mix 60 grams of honey and 6 grams of royal jelly together and take with warm water twice a day, morning and evening. This is suitable for habitual constipation .
The second type of adjunctive treatment: hypertension
1. Drink honey water. Many people use this method: diluting honey with water before drinking. This can avoid the discomfort caused by eating pure honey, such as a burning sensation in the throat or stomach, and can also effectively increase the body’s absorption of the nutrients in honey.
2. Honey has a good effect on treating high blood pressure. Prepare two ounces of honey and one and a half ounces of black sesame seeds. First, grind the black sesame seeds into a paste, then add honey and mix well. Add warm water, mix well, and then drink. It has a good effect on controlling blood pressure for patients with high blood pressure. You can drink a cup every morning and evening.
3. Kelp has a good effect on treating hypertension. After drying the kelp root, grind it into powder. Hypertensive patients can take about 10 grams each time, once or twice a day, with warm water. Kelp root has a good diuretic, heat-clearing and detoxifying effect, and it has a certain effect on removing fat from the body and lowering blood pressure.
The third type of adjunctive treatment: Low immunity
1. Adding a small spoonful of honey to milk after waking up in the morning and before going to bed at night can help fight fatigue and enhance immunity; or you can decoct 10 grams of Ganoderma lucidum in water, extract the juice and add honey to it, which can also enhance immunity, especially suitable for cancer patients after surgery; in addition, soaking ginseng in water and adding a spoonful of honey can replenish.
2. Steep 3 grams of chrysanthemum and 10 grams of goji berries in water, then add 2 tablespoons of honey. This can improve eyesight and nourish the liver and kidneys.
The fourth type of adjunctive treatment: Menorrhagia
1. Having milk with honey for breakfast can also reduce excessive menstrual bleeding in women.
2. Cooking porridge with an appropriate amount of red dates and honey can help replenish blood and qi.
Fifth adjunctive treatment: Chronic pharyngitis
1. Take appropriate amounts of tea leaves and honey. Put the tea leaves in a small bag, place it in a cup, brew with boiling water, let it cool, add coriander and honey, stir well, and gargle with this solution every 30 minutes and swallow it. Use for 3 consecutive days. This is suitable for treating chronic pharyngitis.
2. Soaking 10 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, 10 grams of Platycodon grandiflorus, and 3 grams of Glycyrrhiza uralensis in water, then adding honey, can help relieve chronic pharyngitis.
The sixth adjunctive treatment for lower back pain due to kidney deficiency.
Boil 5 walnuts and 2 tablespoons of honey in water for 15 minutes, then add coriander and honey to nourish the kidneys and brain; or fry the walnuts in oil until golden brown, then add an egg and honey to achieve the same effect.
The seventh type of adjunctive treatment: beauty and skin care
Drinking water boiled with alpine meadow honey and bird’s nest can achieve beauty and skin-nourishing effects; in addition, using honey and other foods such as grape juice to make a face mask can also achieve good beauty results.
Eighth adjunctive treatment: Irritability
Cook 100 grams of lily bulbs and 100 grams of japonica rice into porridge, add honey, and drink it before going to bed at night to nourish the heart and calm the mind; or soak rose petals in water, add honey, to soothe the liver, invigorate qi, and promote a cheerful mood.
The ninth type of adjunctive treatment: Coronary heart disease
A decoction of 10 grams each of Salvia miltiorrhiza and Polygonum multiflorum, mixed with 1-2 spoonfuls of honey and taken orally, can help treat coronary heart disease.
The tenth adjunctive treatment: dry eyes
Steep 3 grams of chrysanthemum and 10 grams of goji berries in water, then add 2 tablespoons of honey. This can improve eyesight and nourish the liver and kidneys.
Eleventh adjunctive treatment: Dryness and internal heat
Steaming pears in water and then adding about two tablespoons of honey can moisturize the lungs and relieve dryness; or stewing white fungus in soup and adding an appropriate amount of honey can also moisturize the lungs and relieve cough.
Twelfth adjunctive treatment: Eye diseases
Chinese scholars have used honey to treat corneal ulcers . The method involves dripping a 5% honey solution into the conjunctiva . Generally, after 1-2 days of treatment, the ulcer stops progressing, the base becomes clean, corneal transparency increases, and the infiltrative edges disappear. In addition, honey has an adjunctive therapeutic effect on many other eye diseases, such as conjunctivitis and corneal ulcers.
Thirteenth adjunctive therapy: Skin diseases
Add 200-250 grams of honey to a basin of hot water and use the solution to wash the affected skin area 2-3 times a week for satisfactory results. For allergic dermatitis and eczema, mix 100 ml of honey with 10 grams of zinc oxide and 20 grams of starch to make an ointment for external application. After application, the rash will subside, exudate will decrease, and itching will disappear. In addition, honey also has a good auxiliary effect on urinary tract infections and athlete’s foot in children.
The above information is for reference only and cannot replace proper treatment. Please consult a doctor.
