The scientific and medical research have shown that compared with other sweeteners, honey, we discovered that it contains small amounts of a variety of vitamins, minerals and amino acids including antioxidant health benefits.
Honey is antiseptic and therefore serves as an agent to fight germs. Although research on the use of honey still in the making, is said to be used to heal minor burns and scrapes, and to help us when we have sore throats and other infections that are caused by bacteria. It is a great source of energy especially when consumed before physical exercise helps the athlete to its strength, and rebuild muscles after a run or do heavy exercise.
In all countries of the world’s honey is considered a gift of nature and a symbol of purity. There are many poems in which he praised as a healthy elixir over time, has been pondering the honey and its benefits in the sacred books as the Old Testament, the Talmud, the Koran, the Vedas, and in the Popol Vuh.
Medicinal preparations and other derivatives
Mead. Derivatives of honey this is the oldest, is prepared by mixing honey with water in equal parts. The fermented mead or honey wine called mead, flavored with spices like cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, or a combination thereof becomes a drink called Host, and when it is fermented and mixed with certain spices wine is made popular in eastern European countries, wine called mead which is an alcoholic beverage. The mixture of wine and honey was considered to be medicinal; property that was widely used.
Talasomeil. It is a medicinal product used by the Greeks since antiquity. Honey is prepared by mixing with sea water and rain water in equal parts, can be used as a mild purgative.
Mead wine. It’s a recipe that comes from ancient Rome, also called lightens. It is a variant of the popular and widespread mixing of wine with honey, and in producing a wine that is used or vintage and used as a good diuretic and an appetizer, is prepared by boiling two parts of a honey wine, in some parts it add cinnamon stick.
Oxymel. Known as an expectorant is recommended by the Pharmacopeamatritense, and is prepared by mixing two parts of a honey vinegar, this mixture is cooked until it is the density of syrup, and taken by spoonfuls.
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