Foo - Things you might not have known about HONEY

Some time ago I was watching one of those PBS shows and it mentioned how in ancient Egypt they used honey as an ointment for healing of cuts and bruises and other health uses. Similar to what the modern antiseptic does. They compared it with modern stuff and honey healed slower but better, which means that bruising was less evident after the healing was complete.

Recently I tried it for some itching I had and it was simply gone after the first application.

There is a lot more to it than that.

http://www.honeyo.com/honeyhealing.shtml

Bee poop.
































Actually I love honey. I eat some almost every day.

A tsp of honey slowly sucked is a good throat balm for sore throats. There are studies under way in the use of honey as a treatment for burns.

Bee poop.


I thought it was bee throw up. Or regurgitation.

I thought it was bee throw up. Or regurgitation.

I totally thought it was bee vom too.

I totally thought it was bee vom too.

Correct, it is. Depending on how much it's processed or how it's extracted, there's usually more bee stuff then just honey in honey. I spent a summer getting intimately acquainted with the entire process. My record was 26 stings in one day.

It's also great for your skin. Honey is a humectant, and helps to hold in moisture.

I'm picturing someone dolloping honey all over their skin and walking around like a sticky Michelin Man.

Realistic? Probably not. Funny? Yes.
Bear magnet?

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff168/cyclearkansas/Bees/bees005.jpg
This winter has been unusually cold. I hope they survive it. I didn't rob them last year so I should get lots of ointment this year.

I eat my peas with honey
I've done it all my life
It makes the peas taste funny
But it keeps them on the knife

(Spike Milligan)

I have friends that swear local honey consumed daily cures their allergies. I keep meaning to go by the farmers market and get some.

I have friends that swear local honey consumed daily cures their allergies. I keep meaning to go by the farmers market and get some.
It makes logical sense based upon one presumption.



Digesting things may help your body not be allergic to them.


Local bees consume the pollen of your nearby flora. The flora that quite often can be the source of many allergies.
So if the logical assumption is right, then consuming local honey brings your body back into contact with that which you are no longer digesting because you're eating foods from half way around the world.

I believe in it. It contains the pollen from your area and eating a tsp a day helps you to build up your tolerance to it.

I believe in it. It contains the pollen from your area and eating a tsp a day helps you to build up your tolerance to it.

Thanks for being my succinter echo. :p

Better than being a sphincter echo....

Better than being a sphincter echo....

:roflmao:

Better than being a sphincter echo....

I had one of those.

I had one of those.
.
Is that what I'm smelling? I keep looking at the little person with the secret grin sitting next to me.

oh EWWWWWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!

If you live in an area with lots of Azaleas or Rhododendrons, do not eat raw honey!
That plant family produces a toxin that gets concentrated in the raw honey and causes wonderful stuff like slow heart beat, coma, death. Heat will destroy the toxin.

http://www.rhodyman.net/rhodytox.html

I love honey in my tea. I also love lemon, cinnamon stick and whiskey in my tea! Dang, I could use a hot toddy right about now!

Sounds good too. I really should've been born in the 50's....way better music in the 60's & 70's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59BZxgohr9g

Yep


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRznuxLtKWk

You make wanna vape it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRznuxLtKWk

Must confess, my first thoughts were more along those lines, rather than some "sticky Michelin Man"

Better than being a sphincter echo....

Yooo!:eek:

I like the flavored honey's. Favorite is blueberry

I like the flavored honey's. Favorite is blueberry

Blasphemy?

Red Honey from Red Hook Honey Bees (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/nyregion/30bigcity.html)

Red Honey from Red Hook Honey Bees (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/nyregion/30bigcity.html)

"...they glow red in the evenings,” he said. “They were slightly fluorescent."

I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome our new bee overlords.

I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome our new bee overlords.

They could not do any worse than mankind has...

Honey is awesome. Specially local RAW honey. The taste is amazing. A thousand times better then stuff sold in the groceries store. Plus if you are going for healing properties and such RAW honey has much more of the good stuff then the processed honey.

It's also great for your skin. Honey is a humectant, and helps to hold in moisture.

Yeah, but then your walkin' around all sticky, all kinds of lint and paper stickin' to you, who wants that? ;0)

Manuka Honey from New Zealand is used in homeopathic treatments both internally and externally.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuka_honey

You can purchase different strengths depending what you are trying to treat. You see it in every shop at Auckland's airport. I picked up throat lozenges that taste good (plain honey and kiwi flavored).