Honey comb: benefits and harms to the body

When the word “honey” comes to mind, an incredible number of associations arise in the head. Is it possible to imagine the history of a Russian village without a mead or pancakes with honey during Shrovetide ?! And how many tales and legends are associated with this wonderful gift of nature. Indeed, honey in Russia was associated with health and affluence. Tales ended with the phrase: "He drank honey beer, flowed from his mustache, but didn’t get into his mouth."

Today, honey is produced on an industrial scale and has not only great nutritional value, but also a solid commercial value. They learned to extract honey a long time ago. At first, people were engaged in storing (collecting honey from wild bees), but soon realized that it was easier to domesticate bees than to ravage forest hives. The product is so diverse in its medicinal properties that people quickly realized: not only natural sweetness itself is valuable, but also what the bees produce in parallel with honey. In this publication, we will talk about a very useful cell honey.

What is cell honey

In fact, the honeycomb is the home of the bees, unique in nature. Honeycombs are wax cells filled with liquid honey. The frame on which the honeycombs are formed is capable of giving up to 4 kg of honey.

Cellular honey is usually called the exact product that was extracted from these cells. Its value is so great that people are ready to put themselves in danger of being bitten by insects, only to get this healing product.

As mentioned earlier, bee honeycombs contain not only honey, but also many other useful elements, such as propolis, bee bread, wax, and others. The combination of these useful elements is colossal and has no analogues in nature. Usually it is cell honey on the shelves that does not linger, although it costs more than usual.

It should be remembered that the older the honeycomb, the less useful it is.

Composition and calorie content

Ladies, dieters, probably interested in the calorie content of this product. It's no secret that honey is quite high-calorie, since its composition almost does not suggest protein (0.08%). But it contains as much as 82% carbohydrates, of which 35% is glucose and 40% is fructose. Honey does not contain fat at all, and its composition is such that it is completely absorbed by the body. Therefore, no diet with the addition of honey is not capable of worsening weight loss, unless, of course, there are contraindications associated with intolerance to the constituents of the product. By caloric content, honey can only be compared with condensed milk (about 327 kcal), but there is more benefit from it. In addition, the waist from its use will not gain additional centimeters.

The chemical composition of honey honey is:

• vitamin C, K, A and group B;
• volatile, pigments;
• fructose and glucose;
• enzymes;
• acids of organic origin (acetic, formic, succinic);
• albuminoids;
• nicotinic and pantothenic acid, folic;
• amino acids.

Why honey in honeycombs is useful

General benefit

The benefits of honey honey are superior to those of deflated ones. Scientists have proven the benefits of the elements that make up this product. The fact is that natural immunostimulating components can protect a person who often consumes honey from colds. The beekeeping product also has anti-aging properties due to the presence of protein in its composition. And pollen, penetrating the intestines, is capable of absorbing toxins from harmful foods that poison the body.Amino acids, which are so necessary for a person to have a proper metabolism, of course, are also part of cellular honey. It should be mentioned about the ability to lose weight sweet tooth, because it is honey that is recommended to replace sugar during weight loss.

In the old days, honey was a bargaining chip. For him it was possible to redeem outlandish gizmos, they paid tribute to them, they paid with honey for expensive services. This made sense, because honey has always been considered almost a panacea for any ailment. Until now, lovers of alternative medicine use it:

• With lung diseases (bronchitis, pneumonia).
• ARVI.
• Diseases of the oral cavity (caries, stomatitis, periodontal disease).
• Anemia
• Thrombophlebitis.
• Hypertension.
• Atherosclerosis.
• Stomach ulcer.
• Eye pathologies (cataracts).

Honeycomb contains a group of vitamins K, C, B. Organic acids such as succinic, folic, nicotinic, and formic are also included. All this is preserved precisely due to the honeycombs, because the viscous state of the inner layer holds the beneficial components of honey.

For women

Women who regularly use cell honey extend their physiological health. Ladies in age relieve menopause by regulating blood pressure with honey and reducing sweating during hot flashes. And pollen contained in honeycombs relieves the symptoms of migraine and improves heart function. Thanks to honey, the body is enriched with red blood cells, which makes fresh skin on the face and body, improves vision and memory.

For men

Men will also appreciate the properties of this product. It’s a paradox, but honey can neutralize alcohol-containing drinks. That is, people who are prone to drinking can resist their addiction by eating a sweet treat after drinking alcohol, and after half an hour feel sobriety. By the way, this beekeeping product removes toxins and toxins, so lovers of fatty fried foods should eat this treat more often.

During pregnancy

During pregnancy, women can not only, but must also eat honey, because during the period of gestation, the expectant mother is susceptible to many infections that can have a detrimental effect on the development of the fetus. Since almost no medications are indicated for pregnant women, they have to resort to traditional medicine.

When leaving home for crowded places, and even during the cold season, it is advisable to have cell chewing gum with you. This will help not only to keep the breath fresh, to avoid tooth decay, but also to protect itself from harmful bacteria that settle on the laryngeal mucosa. Caries is a real disaster for women in the situation, because from excessive demand in calcium, the body literally destroys everything in which it is contained. As you know, related pests that help to destroy a tooth are bacteria in the oral cavity.

Often, expectant mothers, so as not to provoke vitamin deficiency, try to saturate the body with synthetic multivitamins, which are now sold in any pharmacy, throughout pregnancy. However, many of those mothers who rely solely on folk remedies and do not want to receive vitamins from a jar. So, it is precisely such pregnant women who rely on the properties of cell honey. Of course, all the beneficial properties of honey will help to maintain a pregnant woman’s health and improve well-being only if there are no contraindications, such as allergic reactions. Honey is rich in its chemical composition, so allergies can occur on one single component, which will be an occasion to abandon its use.

For kids

No adult will appreciate the taste of honey like a child. Little sweet tooth always enjoy it with pleasure, not knowing the measure. Like adults, children need to maintain immunity. In addition, the use of honey is an excellent prevention of hypovitaminosis, since the product saturates the child's body with the necessary trace elements. Students often complain of visual impairment. Because of the frequent reading and writing, one has to strain one's eyes pretty much, therefore a preventive teaspoon of honey will help, if not improve vision, then at least stop the process of incipient myopia.

Honey will help the smallest children with anxiety sleep syndrome. On such restless kids, honey, the size of a sulfuric head of a match, acts as a sleeping pill, helping to sleep, without waking up from the slightest rustle.

Children of the first year of life, getting the skill of movement, always pick up shiny, bright and unusual from the floor. Often this leads to stomatitis, which in young children is quite difficult. Rinsing the oral cavity at this age is impossible, resorption of antiseptic tablets is also excluded, so mothers face a huge problem in the treatment of stomatitis. In addition, this sore brings discomfort with its painful sensations during meals. In such cases, the easiest way is to give the crumbs a little honey, which with its antiseptic properties after several applications will relieve the oral cavity of microbes.

Is it possible to eat honey in honeycombs when losing weight

What is not in honeycombs ?! Despite the sweetness and high calorie content, it is recommended to those who are going to lose weight. Due to the high biological activity of honey, it breaks down fats, which means it is recommended for overweight people. Acting as a mild laxative, honey prevents the accumulation of feces and gently removes them without compromising the water-salt balance. There are even specific recipes, proven and very effective.

Honey water
Drink 1 cup of honey water half an hour before breakfast. Honey water is prepared at the rate of: 1 teaspoon per glass of boiled warm water. Important! You can’t put honey in hot water, it loses all the beneficial properties.

Apple cider vinegar and honey
There is another recipe for a diet drink. The components of this drink are apple cider vinegar and honeycomb. What do you need:

• apples - 1 kg;
• boiled water - 0.5 l;
• yeast - 10 g;
• honey honey - 100-150 g.

Apples must be cut as small as possible and put into a wide container, filled with boiled water. Add yeast and honey to the same container. It is not necessary to close and clean in the cold. The drink must undergo a fermentation process, so it must be left without a lid for a week, occasionally stirring the contents of the container. After a week, strain the liquid through a sieve and add more honey (you can already liquid) in a ratio of 1 gram of water 100 grams. Pour what turned out into different containers and leave for another two months until the drink brightens and a precipitate forms at the bottom. When the drink becomes suitable for consumption, it will be necessary to finally strain it and put it in a cool place, you can in the refrigerator. It is recommended to use two teaspoons immediately after morning awakening. It is believed that the combination of honey and acid intensely burns fat and speeds up metabolism.

Lemon, Ginger and Honey
For better assimilation and benefits, it is more advisable to combine honey with other products, such as lemon or ginger. You can try with one and the other. What do you need:

• 1 ginger root
• 1 lemon
• 3 tbsp. tablespoons of honey (or 100 g of honey).

The mixture must be prepared as follows: first, grind the lemon and ginger in a blender, you can with the peel, then pour honey and put in a cool place. It is better to eat at night, you can with tea. But in no case put it in the tea itself, unless it is, of course, hot, otherwise the value of the healing mixture will disappear. Tea with honey and ginger not only regulates the acidity in the stomach, but also accelerates the metabolism, and, most importantly, interferes with the process of fermentation and decay in the intestines.

Warm milk with honey
You can also recall everyone’s childhood recipe for honey with warm milk. This drink will not only help relieve stress and calm down, but also due to the properties and composition of honey, to deceive the body, giving a feeling of satiety. Thus, a calm and well-fed body will be able to rest and gain strength all night, and in the morning the result of such a cocktail will be cheerfulness.

Grapefruit and honey
Everyone knows about the fat burning properties of citrus fruits. Consider a recipe for an example of a combination of grapefruit and honey. The fact is that grapefruit is a product containing peptides (that is, special amino acids) that can accelerate the metabolism at times by the body.The recipe is quite unpretentious, you just need to separate the flesh of the grapefruit from the peel, add honey (liquid, honey or honey), then grind it in a blender and use it in the afternoon. It is at this time of the day that it turns out to burn part of those calories that were consumed in the first half of the day.

Honey for weight loss can be used not only inside but also externally. There is a practice of honey wrapping. As well as specialists, massage treatments with honey are practiced. For greater effectiveness, wraps are done with ginger, pepper and even coffee, which serves as a kind of scrub, cleanses pores and removes dead skin. Body volumes after such procedures are significantly reduced. The skin itself becomes soft and supple, as honey improves turgor.

There are honey baths, which will also take a couple of extra pounds. It is better to make them in the summer, because the temperature of such a bath should not be higher than 40 degrees.

It should be remembered! Honey does not like boiling water and high heat, because it instantly loses the necessary properties.

Honey in honeycombs in medicine

Cough treatment

The method of applying the honey compress is simple: honeycomb must be flattened (this is easy to do with wax in its composition) and spread the cakes in the chest area, cover with a piece of cling film. After that, roll upside down to do the same in the area of ​​the shoulder blades. Then wrap yourself around the circumference with an elastic bandage and put on a cotton T-shirt. It is better to be in this state in bed and for as long as possible. Such a procedure should be carried out twice a day until complete recovery.

Conjunctivitis Eye Drops

There are medical recipes that can defeat conjunctivitis if it is of bacterial origin. With a virus, only the adaptation of the immunity itself to a particular virus will help, in other words, it takes time to recover. So, what to prepare eye drops from:

• honey - 1 tbsp. the spoon;
• boiled water - 100 ml.

Dilute honey with warm water and instill sore eyes every 4 hours.

Honey Against Insomnia

Honey helps to cope with insomnia, and as you know, it can cause neurosis. Psycho-emotional arousal does not allow putting thoughts in order and calmly fall asleep. To do this, before going to bed, an adult should eat 40-50 grams of honey or 1 tablespoon of liquid. It is better to drink it with milk, but in case of lactose intolerance, you can do without it. The use of honey without milk will also give the desired effect.

Anemia Treatment

Another dangerous disease that takes the attention of modern doctors is anemia. This disease is characteristic not only of adults, but also of children, so treatment should be started immediately as soon as the diagnosis has been made. To get rid of this ailment, you need to use dark varieties of honey, such as buckwheat, Altai, heather, forest. The recipe in this case is simple and accessible to everyone. It is necessary to chop the flesh of one banana with a tablespoon of honeycomb. Banana is necessary for the heart muscle, honey is a catalyst that will help the body absorb potassium and enrich the blood with hemoglobin.

The use of honey in cosmetology

Honey face masks can not only improve skin, but also tighten tired skin around the eyes, as well as adjust the circumference of the chin, burning a thin layer of subcutaneous tissue.

It’s easy to make such a mask. What do you need:

• 1 tbsp. a spoon of honey;
• a pinch of oatmeal.

Mix oatmeal with viscous honey and apply on face skin. If the variety of oatmeal that was selected is solid, it must be soaked in water and then squeezed so that the water is as small as possible. After that, the oatmeal will be ready for use.

Such masks can be done not only with oatmeal, but also with cucumber, of course, with the addition of honey.You just need to chop the cucumber and add honey. Such a mask will be liquid, therefore it is better to apply it in a horizontal position so that it does not spread. The liquid that the cucumber will let out during grinding cannot be drained, because it has its own value. Do not deprive yourself of additional benefits.

Honey can be mixed with various essential and cosmetic oils and treated with this composition, not only the skin of the face, but also the hair, and also used for body wraps in the presence of cellulite.

Harm and contraindications

Surprisingly, with all the benefits and advantages of honey, there are data from the World Health Organization that 3% of the world's population is already born with intolerance to honey components.

Like any biologically active product, honey has contraindications:

1. Allergy. It can manifest as a simple rash in the form of urticaria, and Quincke's edema.
2. Diabetes. Patients with this disease can consume honey in strictly prescribed amounts. The severity of the disease matters.
3. Stones in the urinary tract.
4. Pancreatitis, a stomach ulcer. Use with caution, as the wax contained in honey has a laxative effect.
5. Some forms of oncology.

Rules for choosing honey in honeycombs

In order not to make a mistake when choosing cell honey, you should pay attention to two characteristic features:

• Colour;
• cell structure

The color features do not just indicate the quality of honeycomb, because it is the shade that determines the fake or real beekeeping product. The color of the honeycomb indicates the freshness of the product. The light, pinkish or yellow color of honey indicates a recent collection, that it is fresh and valuable in its properties. The dark shade speaks of its old collection. And, as you know, cell honey is all the more valuable the younger it is.

Honeycombs, on the contrary: if they are light and dry, it means they are either old or frozen, which also casts doubt on their benefits. In addition, it is important to know: the honeycomb should be covered with a wax cap, that is, it should look like filled, not half-empty.

How and where to store honey in honeycombs

Since honey, including honeycombs, are afraid of high temperatures, and the structure of useful trace elements is destroyed by drafts and temperature changes, it is important to remember the storage rules. Honey should be stored in a cool (not cold) place, preferably well closed, so that direct sunlight does not fall on it. It is better to choose a wooden one. No wonder in the old days honey was stored only in wooden barrels. If wooden packaging is not available, you can use glass or plastic, but not a metal container.

How to get honey from honeycombs

Honey is extracted thanks to the honey extractor. But in the absence of such a device, the honeycomb is simply cut and placed on a sieve to squeeze. There is another way to get honey from honeycombs: put honeycombs under the press for several hours. Then the honey will drain into the container.

How to eat honey in honeycombs

You can use this beekeeping product in different ways: eat a bite to tea, smear it with bread and butter, use it on an empty stomach for medical purposes, washed down with water. The main thing is not to exceed the dosage, which is 50 grams per day or 2 tablespoons.

Is it possible to eat honeycombs from honey

Honeycombs are small containers that are made of wax. They can be eaten, however, they do not bring any benefit to the person in themselves. Although some use this organic product. After the honey stops coming out of the honeycomb, you can chew the wax like chewing gum and spit it out, but if you eat it, nothing bad will happen.

It is undesirable to abuse wax, as it increases intestinal motility and can cause diarrhea.

Interesting facts about honey

1. The leading supplier of honey throughout our country is Siberia.
2. The addition of honey in the manufacture of flour products extends their shelf life.
3. Honey is an essential product in the diet of astronauts.
4. A honeymoon is a month in which newlyweds must eat honey to sweeten family life (belief).
5. For a bee to be able to produce 100 grams of honey, it needs to fly at least a hundred thousand kilometers.

Be healthy and do not get sick, but get sick - be treated with honey, because nature itself gave it!

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