Honey Therapy

Since thousands of years honey has been known as a source of energy drinks that have efficacy as a drug. What are its merits and any disease that can be treated with honey?


In medicine, honey is not classified as a drug. Honey is only classed as a supplement or health drinks. Therefore seldom there are doctors who prescribe to his patients honey. But unique, a lot of ancient literature and scriptures that actually mentions honey as a healthy drink that has efficacy as a drug.

For example, the Qur'an Surat an-Nahl (bee) paragraph 69 states that, "From the belly of bees came out drink (honey) that a variety of colors. In it there is healing for mankind. "

Honey is also known to have efficacy as a drug in the book of Ayurveda, among others, to overcome lung disease. While Aristotle (350 BC) in his Historia Animaliu wrote that white honey is good for treating sore eyes, and Celsius, a Roman physician always gives honey on patients suffering from diarrhea due to the antibacterial effect and nutritional content is easily digested.

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