Benefits of Honey

Honey is another valuable product from nature. Honey is a great immune booster. The health effects of honey have been noted by mankind since past many thousands of years. It is said that in India Honey has been used in Ayurveda medicines since 4000 years. (There are some proofs that honey was known and extracted even before 8000 years as noted in some cave paintings in Valencia, Spain)  

The benefits of honey with its numerous medicinal effects had been recorded in ancient texts like Vedic, Koran, and Bible and also in various other religious texts.  There are different types of honey available in different countries. But I suggest you to use only country’s nature products. If possible find a quality source from your locality, because it is easy to check the quality.

Because honey contains several medicinal effects it is used in making traditional medicines like Ayurveda, Siddha, Naturopathy etc. We would have noticed that in our home treatments (in other words Grandma’s treatments) especially in case of children they use honey freely to cure many problems. 

Since it contains instant sugar it produces instant energy. The vitamins contained in honey are B1, B2, B3, B6, Vitamin C, etc., Do you know? Honey has powerful anti -bacterial properties. And it is non-toxic with strong effects. The contents in honey includes Sugars, minerals like Magnesium, Calcium, Sodium, Chlorine, Sulphur, Iron, Phosphate etc., The P/H level of honey generally noticed between 3.2 to 4.5. This PH level prevents the growth of many bacteria. See more about Honey’s Nutrition properties in Wikipedia here

Of course honey cannot cure cancer but it is anticancer. All of us very well know prevention is better than cure.

How to find if honey is pure? Here is one simple way. Take a glass of water and add one teaspoon full of liquid honey, if it is pure it will take time to dissolve in water. And if it is impure or adulterated the taste will differs from the original product. Pure honey needs a little efforts of stirring it in water to get dissolved.

Friends, I have given some information about this valuable nature honey if you know anything more about honey please share.