Honey

Med – fine food, a dietary product, its main constituents – fructose and glucose – enter the blood directly, which determines its importance as a dietary product. except for carbohydrates, the composition of honey includes enzymes: invertase, diastase, catalase and others, greatly accelerating the metabolism in the body. Contains potassium, calcium, sodium, magnesium, iron and […]

Coniferous honey

Needles are a valuable vitamin concentrate. According to the content of vitamin C, needles are 10 times more active than potatoes and 4 times lemon. In addition, many vitamins A (carotene) and K. are abundant in the needles. The abundance of coniferous trees (pine, spruce, fir) and the ease of preparation of conifers with a […]

Sunflower honey

Sunflower honey of golden color, when crystallized, becomes light amber, sometimes even with a greenish tint, has a weak aroma and somewhat tart taste. The bees make it from the nectar of golden-yellow broad-tubular flowers of the oil plant-sunflower. With an energetic visit of sunflower bees, the yield of its seeds increases almost 2 times. […]

Orange honey

Orange honey is one of the best varieties of honey. A fragrant, reminiscent of the smell of citrus flowers. Pleasant to the taste. Bees make it from flowers of citrus plants-mandarines, lemons, oranges-growing in Abkhazia, Ajaria, Georgia.

Councils with honey in folk medicine

Aloe (century, Sabur). For medicinal purposes, a thickened leaf juice is used. In folk medicine, the juice of fresh aloe leaves mixed with fat and honey in the following proportions is used in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in the following proportions: honey of high-grade bee, especially lime honey, 100 grams of butter, 100% of […]

Honey in diseases of the stomach

Folk wisdom says that bees are the best friend of the stomach. Honey has a good effect on digestion. The systematic use of honey in food normalizes the work of the gastrointestinal tract. Based on clinical observations, the author of the book came to the conclusion that bees honey in combination with certain foods reduces […]

Clover honey

Clover honey is colorless, transparent, has high taste qualities, is considered one of the best light varieties of honey. When crystallized, it turns into a solid white mass. This honey contains 34.96% of glucose and 40.24% of levulose. Bees are processed from nectar harvested from a hectare of white or creeping clover flowers, 100 kg […]

Main properties of honey

The color of honey depends to the greatest extent on what plants honey comes from. Thus, honey from white acacia, linden, sweet clover, alfalfa and clover is light in color, from almost white to pale yellowish and light-colored. The color of honey collected from sunflower is also light-colored. Honey from fruit trees has a yellowish-brown […]

Honey storage

High nutritional and medicinal properties of honey are well preserved for decades in certain conditions. Honey is very hygroscopic, so when stored in a moist place absorbs moisture and sour. Open dishes with honey should not be kept near hygroscopic products that help maintain moisture in the air (salt), as they accelerate the fermentation of […]

Honey for wound healing

In combination with fish oil honey is suitable for the treatment of infected (purulent) wounds, burns. AS Budai used honey to treat long-healing wounds and ulcers and received a good therapeutic effect. During the Great Patriotic War, some surgeons used honey in the treatment of the wounded.