Honey is one of the oldest medicinal foods and has been used for thousands of years all over the world. But it can turn into a toxin if you use honey the wrong way. Here we will explain how to use honey to harness its healing benefits in the correct way.

The benefits of honey are mentioned extensively in the ancient ayurvedic text as well as modern research. Honey is a superior food due to its special nutritional and medicinal properties.

Here are some examples of the benefits of honey, according to the ayurvedic literature.

1. It increases digestive fire and appetite 
2. Improves hydration
3. Increases immunity 
4. Good for the eyes 
5. Promotes healing and cleansing
6. It’s mental health and supports oral health.
7. It’s recommended for vomiting 
8. Recommended in diabetes.
9. Reduce Urinary tract disease 
10. Prevents diarrhea in children
11. Prevents from cough and cold 
12. Reduce insomnia 

According to Modern research, Honey is highly nutritious containing all 22 amino acids vitamins, and minerals including A, B, C, D, and E vitamins, calcium potassium, and magnesium. Honey is easy to digest and, due to its sugar composition, provides instant energy. Ayurveda explains in detail the characteristics of foods and Honey’s characteristics are unique. The taste of honey is sweet and most sweet foods cooling in nature, but honey is an exception because it heats up as a result. So for Kapha Dosha, it is balancing, Kapha Dosha is typically enhanced by sweet-tasting foods.

Honey is also suitable for Vata and Pitta doshas. But Vata and pitta dosha people need to exercise moderation with honey because it’s heating quality can aggravate pitta and its dry quality can increase Vata.

Another unique quality of Honey was it can clear away toxins and mucus from the body and cleanse the circulatory channels of the body. 

Honey is one of the strongest Kapha-lowering substances and helps lose weight. Ayurveda prescribes two major guidelines for the use of honey. The first is to use raw honey, not to cook or to bake with honey. According to Ayurveda When honey is exposed to heat, cooked honey becomes poisonous and released a toxin called Hydro methanol formaldehyde.

Heating honey also modifies some of the other chemical content of the honey, including increasing its peroxides. Honey heating makes it difficult to absorb the molecules that bind to the mucous membranes and clog all the channels in the body like Glue. Which inhibits detoxification and generates ama. So heated honey produces the opposite effect of raw honey. 

During the packing, much of the honey in supermarkets is already heated or pasteurized. So check the labels and make sure that you truly purchasing original raw honey. The second suggestion is about incompatibility, in Ayurveda, a book called Ayurvedic cooking for self-healing describes that equal amounts of ghee and honey are a bad combination. Ghee is cooling but honey is Heating and they have distinct post-digestive effects. However, mixing two parts of ghee and one portion of honey by weight is not poisonous.

The combining of two parts ghee and one part honey by weight, is not poisonous.

The Best way to use honey is to add it to drinks. You can add it to tea after the tea is no longer hot but warm you can also add it to water warm or room temperature.

One classic recipe for purifying the body is to drink the lemon water first thing in the morning in one glass of water mix 1 teaspoon, lemon juice or lime juice and 1 teaspoon, honey. Drink it on an empty stomach first thing in the morning. 

DIGESTIVE HEALTH

Honey antioxidants are useful in preventing, healing, and treating some stomach conditions such as ulcers, gastritis, and gastroenteritis. Researchers think that the consumption of honey activates the sensory nerves in the stomach, helping to prevent ulcers. Other research shows that honey in children helps alleviate diarrhea. Drinking honey with water can also help to reduce gas and bloating related problems.

FLUSH TOXINS

A glass of honey water will not only keep you hydrated, but it will also help to wash toxins out of your system. Manuka honey is a variety of antifungal, antibiotic, and antibacterial properties that are particularly potent.

The addition of lemon to the honey water adds citric acid that will help the body flush out harmful contaminants naturally.

GOOD FOR SLEEP

Honey can also be taken and night to support good sleep mix 2 teaspoons in a glass of water and drink it before bed.

SOOTHE A SORE THROAT

One of the most common applications of Honey is for colds and coughs honey helps remove the mucus and has a soothing effect on the respiratory organs.

CLEAR SKIN

It is an excellent remedy for acne because of the antibacterial nature of honey. Drinking honey water helps clear the inside of your skin, but you can also apply it to the skin directly.

PREVENT HEART DISEASE

Honey is loaded with antioxidants which help protect your heart by lowering bad cholesterol.

Can you overdose on honey? Yes, you can remember it’s very rich in Sugar. Both honey and sugar will affect your blood sugar level, So if you’re diabetic patient honey is not recommended. For others, The general recommendation is up to four or five teaspoons per day.