Beauty of skin and honey



   Honey and its solutions are one of the best natural cosmetics to maintain the beauty and freshness of the skin. It is a basic material in cosmetics. It increases the skin whiteness and smoothness. It increases the skin's vitality and freshness and removes wrinkles and protects it from microbes. As a result of its amazing properties it is quick absorption through the skin and its secretions. Subcutaneous muscle layers are nourished by animal growth (glycogen), thus hydrating the skin and refreshing it.
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The use of honey is no longer limited to treating or eating it, but it is used with certain mixtures to achieve the aesthetic goals, which nourishes the skin and increases the softness and freshness, and the woman since ancient and since the days of (Cleopatra) and still common today, interested in beauty and attractiveness was therefore Using recipes made of honey, cosmetics and powders, adorned by her body.

Some of the masks honey:

Honey mask with lemon age and bread yeast:
   For each of these materials useful for the skin, the yeast eliminates the dry skin, and move the blood circulation in the face, and honey moisturizes the skin and enjoy, while the lemon it contains the acid-clutch of the skin, including the secretions of fatty accumulation with dust and distorted face.

   To make this mask: Thyme the yeast in warm water until you have a paste, then add half a teaspoon of honey after mixing the ingredients well. Apply the mixture well on your skin while avoiding it in the eye area. Relax for five minutes until the mask dries, then squeeze half a lemon into a deep vase, cotton and put it on your face. Wait two or three minutes, then wash your face with lukewarm water and then with cold water.
 Repeat this mask every two weeks after cleansing the skin well.

Honey and milk mask:
For dry skin you can make a mixture of honey with yogurt or small pieces of yogurt cream, moisten the face and hands with the mixture, rinse the face after 20 minutes with warm water and soap, then sprinkle a piece wet with rose water on your skin, the skin will become soft.

Honey mask and wheat flour:
For dry skin: make a mask of 40 grams of honey, 25 grams of wheat flour, 15 grams of water, clean the face with cold water and then put warm compresses for three minutes, make a mask of gauze joint size face with openings for the mouth and nose and eyes, On the face over the gauze mask for 20 minutes and then remove, repeat the warm compresses a few minutes and then wash the face with water.

Honey mask, wheat flour and eggs:
Add egg yolks and a teaspoon of honey to the wheat flour. A teaspoon of olive oil can be added and used as the previous mask.

Facial Lotion:
Ingredients: - Bee Honey: 2 tbsp - almond oil: a tablespoon
- Preparation and use:
Mix the ingredients well, after cleaning the face well, separate the layer of the lotion on the skin of the face, and leave for at least hours, and then rinse the face with lukewarm water and can then put a liquid for skin whitening.

Cleansing & Cosmetics:
Ingredients: - Honey: 3 tbsp. - Water rose: a large spoon. - Oats (soft) 1/3 cup.
Preparation and use:
Mix the honey with the oatmeal, and to facilitate the work of soft paste of them, add water and rose and re-mix, separate the layer of the paste on the skin of the face except for the delicate skin area under the eyes, rinse the face after hours lukewarm water. It can be applied to the skin.

Lotion for softness and softness of the complexion of the face:
Ingredients: - Honey: large spoon. - Apple vinegar: tablespoon.
Preparation and use:
Mix well, separate layer of mixture on skin, leave for 15 minutes, rinse face with lukewarm water.

A skin care product around the eyes:
Ingredients: - Honey: large spoon. - One white egg.
Preparation and use:
Mix the ingredients well, using the fingertips, put a layer of the mixture on the skin around the eyes with a light massage without a violent tightening of the skin, and after the product dries, rinse the skin with lukewarm water. This product works on tightening, softening and beautifying the skin around the eyes.

Cleansing lotion with black grain:
Ingredients: - Ground almonds: cup. Honey: 2 tbsp.
Preparation and use:
Rinse the ingredients well, then separate the layer of the lotion on the skin with a massage light with a focus on the areas of grain and blackheads, taking into account avoiding the area around the eyes, after several minutes rinsed the skin with lukewarm water.
   This product cleans, refreshes and softens the skin.

Preparations to get rid of the roughness of the elbows:
Ingredients: - Honey: large spoon. - lemon juice: a large spoon. - Saffron oil: a large spoon or almond oil or apricot oil or olive oil.
Preparation and use:
Mix the ingredients well, and the skin of the elbows in the preparation for a few minutes, the use of this product on a regular basis to whiten and smooth the skin of the elbows.

Honey Cream to reduce facial wrinkles and prevent appearance:
Mix a large spoon of honey with a similar spoon of cream suitable for the face, and use this mixture in the paint places wrinkles, and stay for half an hour, then rinse the face with lukewarm water.

To crack lips and skin:
To treat this, paint can be used as:
30 g honey, 30 g lemon juice + 15 g colonia water.

Carrot mask for oily skin:
Ingredients Two pieces of medium size well boiled
1 teaspoon of honey + half a teaspoon of sauces

Recipe for cleansing facial skin:
Ingredients: three amounts of honey + two drops of rose water or a blossom of orange + a quantity of lemon juice + a quantity of beeswax melted or dissolved + half the amount of olive oil
Preparation and use:
Mix the melted wax with the honey on a steam bath, add the oil and whisk well, and when the mixture becomes as soft as the cream. Keep away from the steam bath, add rose water and lemon juice and whisk well then close the pot tightly and use as necessary or when necessary

Recipe for skin nourishment and skin ulcers:
Ingredients :
A little sweet almond oil + a little olive oil + beeswax as needed

Preparation:
Put the mixture in a bowl on a water bath and constantly fluctuate then form the cream and leave to cool and be soft and moist
Usage:
Used once a day in normal cases and in the case of ulcers used two to three times

Cream to maintain facial complexion
Ingredients :
Weight - 100 grams Lanolin - 100 grams beeswax - 50 grams pollen - 100 grams lemon honey - 4 grams royal jelly
How to prepare:
Grind the pollen until smooth as flour. Blanch the wax and lanolin with a water bath. Add the pollen with continuous stirring until the mixture is homogeneous. Add the honey with stirring, add the royal jelly, remove the mixture from the source of the heat and stir slightly and then be ready to use

Cream for the hands
Ingredients :
Lemonade juice - 125 grams beeswax - 250 grams honey - 50 grams vaccine pills
How to prepare:
Grind the pollen until smooth. Wax the wax with a water bath. Add the pollen to the wax and stir the mixture until it becomes homogeneous. Add lemon juice and honey while stirring for 2 minutes. Remove the mixture from the heat source and place in a bottle. Painted hands only at evening

Face mask for oily skin
Ingredients :
1 white egg - 4 lemon or orange juice - 2 tablespoons of honey
How to prepare :
Beat the egg white until it becomes like foam and mix with lemon juice and honey. After the mixture becomes homogenous, paint the face and remain for 20-30 minutes and then wash face with lukewarm water

Facial soap
Ingredients :
Weight - kg Facial soap - 125 grams honey - a glass of water
How to prepare :
Brush facial soap or cut very small pieces and mix with honey and water. Heat the mixture on low heat with continuous stirring until the soap melts and mixes with the other ingredients in a homogeneous manner. Blend the mixture over the fire and pour in suitable molds. It is used after it has cooled as a soap to wash face and body

Eau de Toilette for deodorizing and removing wrinkles
Ingredients :
A teaspoon of honey - 50 gm water perfume - 50 g of yellow roses - 25 g espert medical
How to prepare :
Sprinkle a teaspoon of yellow rose in a glass of water for two hours. Mix the water with the other material after it has been filtered. Paint the face after the bath

Facial Cleansing Mask
Ingredients :
Weight 20 grams of Lanolin - 30 grams of honey - a spoon of egg yolks
How to prepare :
Lanolin is heated over low heat until it reaches the boiling point with continuous stirring. This amount is raised on the fire and mixed with honey and egg yolk. Paint the face and leave for 20 - 30 minutes then still with lukewarm water

Other face cleaning mask
Ingredients :
1 egg white - spoon eat honey - spoon eat glycerin - quantity of wheat flour
How to prepare :
Whites whiten the egg with honey and glycerin, add a little wheat flour and continue stirring until the mixture becomes cream. Paint the face completely to the level of the throat and leave on the face for ten minutes. Then wash with lukewarm water

Mask for moisturizing the face
Ingredients :
Two tablespoons of honey - two tablespoons of whole milk
How to prepare :
Mix the honey with the milk until the mixture is homogenous, paint the face to the level of the throat and leave for 10 minutes on the face and then removed by washing with lukewarm water

Cream for normal hair moisturizing
Ingredients :
Half a cup of honey - two tablespoons of olive oil -
How to prepare :
Mix the honey with olive oil well and completely coat the hair with a scalp massage. Cover the hair with a cloth, towel or bath towel for half an hour and then wash thoroughly with shampoo and dry

Moisturizing cream for dry hair
Mix half a cup of honey with a quarter cup of olive oil, mix well and coat the hair completely with a scalp massage and cover the hair completely with a cloth or a towel or a bowl of bath for half an hour and then wash the shampoo well and dry

Clear the wax
Ingredients :
Half a cup of baby oil - 30 grams beeswax -
How to prepare :
Wax with baby oil in a pot and heated by microwave or water bath and stir the mixture from time to time until the wax melts and the mixture becomes homogeneous. Wax is used as a cream to soften the skin or cream to moisten the lips

Softening ointment for the skin
Ingredients :
Weight: 30 grams beeswax - 240 grams wax wax
How to prepare :
Mix the ingredients and dissolve with a water bath or microwave. When used, the mixture is heated until it is moderately hot and the skin is soaked and left to be absorbed by the skin.

Ointment to crack lips
Ingredients :
Spoon eat wax wax - spoon eat beeswax - spoon eat bee honey - spoon eat lanolin or vizeline or glycerin - several points of aromatic oil or of my favorite perfume
How to prepare :
Wax, wax and glycerine are melted by a water bath or microwave. After the mixture melts, add honey and aromatic oil slowly and stirring until the mixture is homogeneous.

Shampoo for bath and bath
Ingredients :
In size - one quarter cup honey - one tablespoon liquid soap - half a glass of glycerin
How to prepare :
Mix the ingredients until they become homogenous. Keep the ingredients in a plastic bottle

Chinese moisturizing balm for face and hands
Ingredients :
1 teaspoon almond oil - 2 teaspoons honey - 1 egg yolk fresh - several points of essential oil or aromatic oil
How to prepare :
Mix all ingredients well to get homogenous cream textures. Keep in a glass container in a cool place until use

An ointment for weight, freckles and acne
Ingredients :
Size - 6 teaspoons lemon juice - 1 teaspoon of glycerin - 1 teaspoon of medical alcohol - 1 teaspoon of lemon juice A few drops of aromatic oil or of my favorite perfume.
How to prepare :
Mix the honey and glycerin with a water bath with stirring and then remove the mixture when you get a homogeneous mixture. Add the rest of the material to it with continuous stirring. Paint the face with this mixture after cleaning it and stay for half an hour and then continue with lukewarm water.

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 Attention to readers and followers:
I will add other recipes from time to time
Note: The water bath is two structures separated by a layer of water not to expose the components of the recipe to the flame directly
For heating or smelting it is advisable to use a glass container.



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Health benefits of propolis


- Therapeutic value of propolis

                            Propolis is a product of the apiary that can transfer to humans active 
                                                      ingredients made by  certain plants,
    
   It is used in perfumery in the composition of certain cosmetics, but it is especially in therapeutics, its healing and cicatrizing qualities of wounds, suppurations, abscesses and boils. It has been used in the same way as honey for wounds.
           Its antiseptic and antibacterial properties (bactericidal and bacteriostatic) and even antimycotic and anesthetic.It has been successfully tested in various fields: trauma, surgery, stomatology, otolaryngology, dermatology, pneumology, anesthesia and gynecology. The effectiveness of propolis against lung tuberculosis, tonsillitis, the flu virus as well as in the healing of burns. Treating chronic subatropic and atropic pharyngitis.
        The effectiveness of propolis in the treatment of trichomoniasis of the vagina and cervix; in vitro, Trichomonas vaginalis disappears in 24 hours at concentrations of 3 to 9 milligrams of propolis per milliliter.), bronchial asthma would be very much improved, if not cured, by the administration of propolis internally.
          Internal administration of 7 to 8 doses per day for 8 days would eliminate asthma for two years. One dose equals 250 milligrams of total dry extract. However, in some people allergic to propolis, there is the opposite effect: a dermatosis or a hay fever or a sore throat. Finally, propolis extract is an excellent cure for mastitis in cows. Some fractions of propolis contain a substance capable of inhibiting the growth of Bacillus tuberculosi in vitro. The antimicrobial properties of propolis can be attributed mainly to the flavonoids it contains, such as pinocembrin, galangin, pinobanksin, acetate-3-pinobanksin, and also to a mixture of benzyl ether of p-acid. coumeric and caffeic acid ether.
There are now various propolis-based drugs for the treatment of burns and wounds, dermatitis, pharyngitis, rhinitis and tracheitis, gingivitis, prostatitis, urinary tract infections and ulcers. reducing the level of cholesterol in the blood, by the fact that they reduce the absorption of fats at the intestinal level.

                                                                  Composition:

                                   55% of resins and balms, 25 of wax, 10% of essential oils, 
                                         5% of pollen, 5% of organic and mineral materials.







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Chemical composition and properties of royal jelly

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Royal jelly is the product of the secretion of the hypopharyngeal and mandibular glands of bee workers.It appears as a semi-solid, whitish and milky substance. Its taste is strongly acidic (pH 3.5 to 3.9) and slightly bitter. Its smell is a little acrid.                                                                                                           
   



                                   1)    A fresh royal jelly contains in percentages:


Free amino acids, constituents of proteins,
  royal jelly contains in mg / 100 g

   It also contains arginine, cystine, histidine, hydroxyproline, isoleucine and / or leucine, lysine,methionine, phenylalanine, tyrosine, tryptophan, B-alanine, glutamine and taurine.
     the following fatty acids: nonanoic, capric, undecanoic, lauric, tridecanoic, myristoleic, palmitic, palmitoleic, stearic, linoleic and arachidic.

The vitamins are indicated in micrograms per gram:

     Royal jelly also contains phosphorus compounds and nucleic acids. It also has antibiotic properties due to the presence of several hydroxydecanoic acids.


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Health benefits of royal jelly




   The generally recommended dosage is
50 milligrams    
of fresh royal jelly a day in pure form. 
It is melted on the tongue.

      the consumption of royal jelly is especially indicated for young children, for some patients, as well as for the elderly; it has a stimulating general action and temporarily increases the basal metabolism; it is recommended in cases of neurosis, asthenia, insomnia and convalescence; some recommend it for the treatment of duodenal ulcer; it regulates the neuro-vegetative system by increasing the efficiency of physical and intellectual work; it increases the reproductive capacities; it is effective against senile anemia, by the very strong increase of the number of red corpuscles; it has also shown a beneficial effect on patients suffering from atherosclerosis, as well as on hypo and hypertensive patients; it decreases the level of cholesterol in the blood, and has a very clear therapeutic effect in cardiac patients in general; some authors have also noted a significant decrease (up to 30%) in the blood sugar level of diabetics, three hours after taking royal jelly.

   In the United States it has not yet been officially recognized as such and so far has not been subjected to the experimentation it deserves.The chemical analysis and examination of royal jelly is not complete, and there is probably in minute amounts still unknown substances which have a beneficial effect on man as evidenced by the experiments carried out until that time. day. In Europe, it is officially recognized as a medicine in several countries, mainly in Russia, Italy and France.

   The action of the latter on the prevention of cancer is well known from the results of experiments that tested it on 2 000 mice divided into two lots. The first was inoculated with cancer cells, the second also, but at the same time received royal jelly. After two months, all mice in the first batch died while all mice in the second batch remained healthy.
   According to the test results, the royal jelly absorbed by patients undergoing X-ray therapy would play a protective role against the harmful effects of these rays.
  From experiments on rabbit mandibles, royal jelly significantly accelerates the regeneration of injured bones.
  The experiment showed that royal jelly has a bactericidal effect on Staphylococcus aureus and a bactericidal and antibiotic action on Koch bacillus (Mycobacterium tuberculosis). Similarly, have also highlighted the bactericidal power of royal jelly at the concentration of 7.5 milligrams per liter, Megatherium and Proteus X 19.
    In pharmacy, there are various preparations with royal jelly:
In Rumania, Vita- don, tablets with freeze-dried royal jelly; Melcacin, a granulated product made with royal jelly, calcium and honey;
In Bulgaria, there is Lake Apis;
In Canada, Longivex;
In France, a solution, Apiseram;
In the Federal Republic of Germany, Apifortyl, polyvitaminic capsules;
In Russia, tablets, Apilacum Naturale.





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Chemical composition and properties of pollen

                      Average composition of pollen
                         as a percentage on dry weight
 

The vitamins have been found in fresh pollen
in the following proportions in micrograms per 100 g
  




    Pollen ash contains the following minerals: calcium, chlorine, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, silicon and sulfur.
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   The free amino acids (proteins) contained in the pollen are:  - aspartic acid, glutamic acid, arginine, alanine, asparagine, cystine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, tryptophan, valine, serine, glycine, hydroxyproline, proline, B-alanine, glutamine and A-amino-butyric acid.
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     Among the enzymes or enzymes that the pollen contains, it is necessary to mention: phosphatase, amylase and invertase.





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Health benefits of pollen

                                  

INTRODUCTION

      Pollen is a new food. It has not been used for much more than thirty years in
human nutrition. Its market looks set for a prosperous future.
    The chemical composition of pollen is not yet fully known. In general, pollen plays an important role in the transfer of active ingredients from the plant kingdom to humans, more than 50 active substances with a very broad spectrum of influence on the human organism have been identified in pollen .
    Fresh pollen has a 100% efficiency in stimulating the development of the hypopharyngeal (nurse) glands of workers, after one year of preservation in the dry state, this efficiency is reduced to 76% and after two years to zero. It can therefore be concluded that pollen in storage is subject to chemical changes, that its content of active and beneficial principles decreases with duration and that it is advisable to consume less than one year. The main active substances that disappear after one year of storage are L-lysine and L-arginine.
                          
                                 Pollen as a protein food
   With its average of 25% protein, pollen is one of the richest foods in amino acids. It is richer in protein than most foods known as such: meat, egg, fish, cheese, etc., 100 grams of pollen contain the same amount of amino acids as half a kilo of beef. It is not recommended to replace these foods with pollen but to partially replace them with one to two teaspoons of pollen per day. The latter, when it comes from several species of plants, contains all the essential amino acids, that is to say those which the human organism is unable to synthesize on its own.

Pollen as a physiological balance food
    The known actions on the human body, pollen in dried pellets kept dry for less than a year, are as follows:
  1) regulating action of intestinal functions, both in case of diarrhea and constipation,
  2) increased hemoglobin levels in anemia,
 3) increased appetite and weight in thin individuals, and rapid recovery of forces after influenza,   depression and other diseases,
  4) beneficial action on intellectual fatigue, probably due to its high content of amino acids,
  5) fortifying action on the circulatory system, and in particular the capillary system, by the presence of rutin, a preventive glucoside for haemorrhages and fortifying the contractions of the heart,
  6) positive action on the growth of young children,
  7) Rejuvenating action by recovery of male power,
  8) Beneficial action on liver functions and rapid recovery of health after jaundice,
  9) very effective curative action of prostatitis.
     It is necessary to insist on the particularly effective action of the pollen in the affections of the prostate. In fact, statistics indicate that prostate enlargement affects 30% of men aged 50 to 60, 60% of men aged 60 to 70 and almost 100% over 70 years. Prostate disorders can be prevented by consuming a little pollen each day from the age of 45 to 50 years. When prostatism is installed, it can be relieved by the daily intake of pollen and the latter can often avoid surgery.

Additional feeding dose
    Despite the curative qualities of pollen, there is no need to consider it as a drug but rather as a complementary food to be taken daily in small doses. The normal amount for a healthy individual and especially from the age of 50 is one to two teaspoons each morning. In the case of illness or convalescence, one can go up to one to two tablespoons a day. Some people get used to their taste with difficulty. This taste can be camouflaged by mixing the amount of pollen that you want to consume each day with honey. There are cases of allergy to pollen ingestion, but they are very rare.
     Currently, pollen is available for sale in dry and natural conditions in many countries. In some of them, it is also found in the form of therapeutic preparations:
In Romania, the Polenapinj.
In Argentina, Vitapol.
In Japan, the Aftopolen.
In Federal Germany, the Vital Prostatadiat, pellets of squash seeds and pollen












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Chemical composition and properties of honey


                Main components of honey in percentage
             

                                    Content of honey in vitamins.
                  
















                                                        
                                  Content of honey in minerals.                                                                 















   
                    Honey content in free amino acids (in mg / 100g)                










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Health benefits of honey

                Food and therapeutic uses of bee products                                             Honey/Pollen/Royal jelly/Propolis/Beeswax



GENERAL
  •    About the beneficial qualities of honey and other bee products, which is a reminder of their popular therapeutic use since time immemorial. Modern science has long been skeptical about the nutritional and especially therapeutic qualities of these products because it did not have experimental results from the biometric method. However, over the last four decades, scientific research on hive products has developed, first in Eastern Europe and more recently in the West. The results of this research are gradually highlighting their exceptional nutritional and therapeutic qualities.
  •    All the nutritional, antiseptic, preventive and curative properties of hive products are far from being known. The result is abusive publicity, and some firms and traders do not hesitate to extol certain healing qualities of honey, pollen and royal jelly without supporting their claims on scientific grounds. Fortunately, recent official standards in the most advanced countries are eliminating these abuses.
  •    It is often said that beekeepers live longer than average men. To our knowledge, we have not statistically established a higher longevity of beekeepers. However, a survey of 580 dead beekeepers showed that they are statistically less affected by tumors of the respiratory system: 2.6% against 4.6 at P <0.05. However, this survey did not reveal any significant difference between the cancer rate in beekeepers and non-beekeepers.
  •    For the purpose of promoting research on the therapeutics of ruch products. In addition, within the Medical Section of the International Institute of Bee Technology and Economies, research laboratories are studying drugs based on apiary products. At present, apitherapy has gained worldwide the right to be a specialty in medical practice. Today, we know that the hive is an antiseptic chamber whose products, honey, pollen, wax and propolis contain substances that are both nutritious and / or antimicrobial that can be of great benefit in the diet. human therapy.

                        Value of honey in human nutrition and therapeutic.
         

•    The biological properties of honey are numerous, but it is necessary to reject first the misconceptions that have been introduced into the beekeeping bibliography on this subject. These properties are subject to an infinity of variations associated with living organisms and are much more difficult to establish than those that are purely physical or chemical. Books and several thousand articles have been written in scientific journals and popularization on this subject. Only the statistical results obtained under experimental conditions related to the rules of biometrics are valid. We have endeavored to specify the biological properties of honey defined on the basis of an experiment which seems sufficient to us.

                                                                                                                                                                         1) Honey as food sugar
•    What is particularly striking in the list of honey components is the very high percentage of invert sugars (levulose and dextrose) directly assimilable (70%) and the very low percentage of sucrose (1.3%) not directly assimilable. It is necessary to clarify this notion of direct and not direct assimilability: sucrose is a dimer of glucose and fructose. In the stomach, it is hydrolyzed to give a molecule of glucose and fructose per molecule of sucrose. So it does not go into the blood as such. Consuming sucrose amounts to consuming a mixture of glucose and fructose in a 1/1 ratio. In recent decades, publications have often reported the harmfulness of an abundant consumption of sucrose (sugar beet or cane)
 by increasing the level of fats in the blood (hypertriglyceridemia) and recommending its replacement with honey. In fact, the influence of sugars (sucrose, glucose, fructose) on hypertriglyceridemia is still poorly known as shown by the results of the following tests.

                                        - The following results: By varying the diet of rats.

   According to these figures, it seems that fructose induces a net increase in the rate of fats in the blood, whereas glucose does not have this effect and sucrose has an intermediate effect. The biochemical mechanisms involved in this phenomenon are not yet well clarified: fructose has a direct action on the hepatic secretion of triglycerides. Honeys contain on average glucose and fructose in the same proportions. Their sugars must therefore have the same effect in the blood as white sugar (sucrose).

                          2) Honey as a preventive and remedy

  •     In addition to sugars, the components of honey are numerous and their action on the human body is varied. The medicinal properties of honeys were already known empirically in antiquity: honey was classified into eight species and attributed to each specific medicinal properties: against cooling, cough, asthma, etc. It is currently experimentally proven that honey has regenerative properties of certain functions of the body by the presence of catalysts such as enzymes, acetylcholine and vitamins. A striking example of the stimulating and regenerative properties of honey is given by the experience of 387 babies aged 0 to 4 months at New York's Foundling Hospital. These babies were abandoned and neglected children. The experimenters divided the babies into three groups according to whether they were fed or honey (a), or dextro-maltose number one (b), or Karo corn syrup (c). Babies in group (a) and (b) gained more weight than (c) and their hemoglobin levels were higher. Eleven of the babies in group (c) had anemia, seven in group (b) and only two in group (a). These results show the superior efficacy of honey in the regeneration of anemic infants.
  •    The biochemical mechanisms by which honey acts on the human body have not yet been elucidated. Our purpose is not to go into the details of the medical experimentation conducted in recent years on this subject. We summarize below the main results obtained: at the level of the liver, the honey increases the quantity of available glycogen and exerts a hepatoprotective action; several researchers in Russia, Switzerland and other countries have shown the marked effectiveness of honey in retrogradation and in many cases, in the complete absorption of stomach ulcers or duodenum. In Russia, its curative action has also been shown in some cases of infectious diarrhea; although honey is relatively low in vitamins and minerals, it plays an important role in bone and dental calcification; the medicinal properties of the honeys also depend on their specific origin: thus the sweet clover honey would be superior to the others as a remedy for sore throats, the fir honeydew honey against bronchitis, the honeys of lime and hawthorn particularly soothing and Light sedatives, lavender honey would be more effective than others against diarrhea. It can be seen that honey often has the same medicinal properties as the plant from which it comes. The nectar which is sap developed, contain the active substances of the plant from which it is derived. So willow honey would lower fever as well as willow bark that contains acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin)
  •     Some traders sell very high-glycoside (fructose) honey, for example tupelo honey (Nyssa aquatica), a plant growing in Florida, and include on the label: honey for diabetics. However, levulose is largely converted to glucose as it passes through the intestinal mucosa. As a result, honeys rich in levulose would not be more suitable for diabetics than other honeys with lower levels of levulose. Others produce and sell artificial honey. In Belgium, the shortage of honey-producing flowers has become such that an artificial honey industry has become prosperous. This food is made by bees from beet sugar dispensed as a syrup feed. He is glad that the law prohibits the use of honey as a product without the qualities of the nectar of plants.

                                     3) Honey as antiseptic                               

  •    The concept of inhibin in honey was introduced in 1937. the effect of inhibin is due to a small amount of hydrogen peroxide (hydrogen peroxide) in dynamic equilibrium in honey. This oxygenated water is produced by glucose oxidase, and found another group of antibacterial factors in honey that is sensitive to light, but less sensitive to heat and that can be kept for at least two years in a refrigerator.
  •    These antibacterial properties were already known empirically more than two thousand years ago since Hypocrate recommended the application of honey on boils, abscesses and burns, while Dioscoride, in a work entitled "Mate- ria medica", prescribed it in the treatment of injuries. In ancient Egypt and India, it was already used for the same purpose. During the war it was used successfully for the dressing of wounds. Modern medicine now seems to rediscover the exceptional antiseptic and healing qualities of honey: some use it again in surgery and for the dressing of wounds and burns. We use honey dressings ourselves every time we hurt ourselves. We found that not only were the wounds thus dressed never infected, but that they healed more quickly than sulphonamide powders and ointments.                          
  •     It should be noted that the bactericidal power varies from one honey to another. Thus it has been shown that honeydew honey from chestnut (Castanea sativa), Pinus, Picea and Abies alba had a very strong bactericidal effect on Staphylococcus pyogenic aureus, even when diluted, while honeys of dandelion (Taraxacum officinalis) and heather (Erica and Calluna) had average bactericidal power on this same staph. In addition, the bactericidal power of honey of the same species may vary with variety. Thus, Eucalyptus meullerana honey has a markedly inhibitory action on the growth, but that with Eucalyptus micro-theca is not an inhibitor of this bacterium. 
  •     Honey can be fungicidal or fungistatic. Thus Aspergillus flavus, a mold that under certain conditions develops on nuts, including pistachios and peanuts, and produces aflatoxin, a body known to be carcinogenic, does not develop in the presence of honey. It is therefore wrong to pasteurize honey. Finally, it can advantageously substitute sucrose which has been recognized as an indirect agent of dental caries: sucrose present on the dental surface allows the development of a caries agent bacterium. Honey is mainly glucose and fructose is not a favorable substrate for the multiplication of this bacteria.

                                                   




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