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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Benefits of White Honey

It turns out not only the honey yellow color, below is a description of the speedy white honey. As his case yellow honey that has been trusted his prowess in overcoming some diseases, it is equally white honey with honey yellow in general. White honey is also very useful for the treatment of the human body.

White honey is honey produced from the nectar and pollen of flowers kaliandra (Caliandra Sp). Flower nectar and flowers flour kaliandra collected by bees and processed naturally in the body to produce white honey bees. Only calliandra honey from flowers that produce white honey, because white flower color biochemical processes that are rich in phytochemical compounds (dye plants and minerals that are needed by the body).

White honey contains bioflavonoids, an antioxidant compound that is useful for the healing process of the body. White honey also contains amino acids, vitamins and minerals that are complete and contain the enzymes protease, amylase and pektase (compound decomposing enzyme protein, starch, and pectin) to expedite the process of digestion. White honey is very beneficial for consumption because of very high nutritional value and health benefits which we desperately need.

Benefits of White Honey:
- Maintain / maintain good health.
- Prevent canker sores.
- Preventing and treating osteoporosis.
- Treating jaundice.
- Prevent heat and high fever
- Normalize blood circulation.
- Enhance intelligence and good for growing children.

White honey is very beneficial to human health.

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Kids and Babies Can Eat Honey?

It has been suggested that honey should not be given to children under the age of 1 year because they contain Clostridium botulinum, the bacteria that produce toxins botulinin, often found in canned foods.

This opinion is not true and has been proven by a team of doctors from the hospital Al Kafji National Hospital- Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who studied more than 220 examples of honey from various countries and interviews with the families of the 1500 babies over the honey which was given at birth.

From this research proves reports NO clostridium Botilinum contaminated honey and none of babies who suffer from botulism due to honey. So the opportunity for Clostridium Botilium on honey, together with opportunities exist in other food ingredients derived from nature such as milk and others. So honey is safe for consumption all ages even infants under 1 year of age, the most important thing to note dosage use in children mainly under the age of 1 year and with the diluent (water mixed with ripe).

Dose use of honey
Taking the maximum dose of honey is 15 mg / kg bw / day, which means that if we are a young adult with a body weight of 50 kg, then he should not drink honey maximum of 750 mg (one large bottle) a day. The average adult of 100-200 grams of honey is recommended to drink or 3- 9 tablespoons per day, while for children by half, between 50-100 grams. Surely this dose is far from the maximum dose. This is why honey is safe for diabetics though. Hope it is useful.

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Honey for people with Diabetes

In people with diabetes (diabetes; diabetes) honey is safe for them. The disease is caused by disruption of the performance of the pancreas to produce insulin. Insulin is what role is to break down the type of disaccharide sugars.

In contrast to sugar (disaccharide) who need insulin to enzymes can be broken down and absorbed by the body, honey which is a monosaccharide sugar will be directly absorbed by the body and converted into energy. Therefore, God willing honey is safe for people with diabetes can even help stabilize blood sugar levels to normal.

In some hospitals, the honey used for repair of skin tissue infected even prevent amputation. It's easy, by applying honey on the sick body. The way this is done Professor Jennifer Eddy, MD from the Faculty of Medicine and Public Health, University Winsconsin, USA. He also said that the combination of an antibacterial agent with hydrogen peroxide produced by the bacteria, can help clear the infection is difficult to treat with other methods.

Favorite medicine Hippocrates, the "father" of medicine is honey. He has a recipe called "oxymel". He said:
"The Drink to be employed should there be any pain is vinegar and honey. If there be great thirts, give water and honey".

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Honey Types and Benefits

What we eat can influence the health. a healthy diet makes our body's defenses become stronger. In adulthood the inability of a person to adjust his diet is very significant trigger a wide range of serious illnesses. The circumstances of the times and changes in lifestyle and eating habits of human beings is indeed a neglected many needs of the body. Reduced mineral or vitamin that is missing from the food we eat often makes the body vulnerable to disease. Honey is one of the void filler may be contained in the body due to lack of good eating habits.

 

For centuries honey made by bees from the nectar of flowers is a pure and natural sweeteners and one human food ingredient. Liquid honey. Generally has a sweet taste, because it comes from the nectar of various flowers or plant parts. Honey is a natural food once the drug, which is naturally processed by bees disarangnya. Fructose and glucose are the main substances in honey. Honey is good to have calories +/- 3.280 cal / kg. Honey is not made by humans, because honey synthetically will be different taste, smell, content and benefits. What distinguishes it among other acid levels (PH), the content of the enzyme diastase, HMF (5-hydroxy methyl furfural), fructose content results and dextrosanya and Traffic optic honey that can rotate to the left on the tool Polarimeter. So the only honey that is collected and processed naturally by lebahlah that could be called HONEY NATURAL. Indonesia honey produced by bees include various types of wild bee type as Apis dorsata and Trigona sp and honey livestock such as Apis mellifera, Apis Indica and Apis florae.

Among other types of honey honey apple, honey, durian, longan honey, honey rambutan, mango honey, coffee honey, honey kapok, forest honey, honey calliandra, and multiflora honey.

Benefits of Honey

Several expert studies that have been done show that honey can be used as an antimicrobial in wounds including postoperative wound. This is due to the honey has a relatively low water content which is less than 20% and a high sugar content, the condition is not very conducive to the growth of microorganisms because osmosis effect that can kill microorganisms (Tonks et al., 2003).

The ability of honey as an antimicrobial others are honey has a low pH level so acidic that can inhibit the growth of microbes, honey has a large osmotic pressure and the ratio of carbon to nitrogen is high (Rosita, 2007). In addition it also has a function as an antimicrobial honey because it can inhibit the growth of microorganisms through a compound of hydrogen peroxide produced so difficult bacteria to thrive (Banq et al., 2003).

Honey also contains enzymes useful for digestion. The human body only needs to absorb because the natural sugar content of honey is very easy to digest. The process of making honey bees in the stomach, aided by the salivary glands, has changed the nectar sugars into sugar levulose and dextrose. The rapid absorption of making honey is often used to obtain spontaneous energy, increase stamina and make your body fit for the sportsman or worker.

In addition to quickly generate power, honey has many advantages and benefits include:

1. Have a warm nature, so it is suitable for the disease singin syndrome.
2. Does not cause irritation.
3. The type of sugar in the honey most easily handled by the kidneys.
4. Able to soothe the body (have a sedative effect) so fitting for people who have trouble sleeping.
5. Easy to obtain and relatively affordable.
6. Able to maintain endurance and stamina.
7. It can help cure various kinds of diseases, such as heart metabolic disorders, hypertension (high blood pressure), canker sores, improving blood circulation, cholesterol, uric acid, gastric disorders, etc.
8. Honey is an antioxidant that is beneficial to the health of the skin, making the skin look healthier, look younger and keep the smoothness and softness of the skin.
9. It has anti-inflammatory effects (anti-inflammatory), such as colitis, and strep throat.
10. Drug respiratory tract, such as asthma, cough and flu.
11. Drug eye disorders, diabetes mellitus, and also can support the growth of probiotic microbes. And many more benefits contained in natural honey.
12. As an external medicine, for burns and infection due to diabetes (diabetes).

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