I use honey for a LOT of health-related things. Honey is one of the best all-around home remedies you need to keep on hand in your home. Sore throat? Cough? Skin issue? Infection? Bug bites? There are SO many things you can use honey as a remedy for! Here is info for you about the natural healing powers of honey and how I use it in my life. I hope to inspire you to try this easy and versatile sweet and popular remedy in a variety of ways too.
Besides some great honey remedies and recipes, have you ever thought about how bees actually make honey? I'll explain that here, too!
There are many, many ways to use honey for healing. In fact, honey has been used for centuries, with known references as far back as 2400 B.C. Here are a few ways we can use honey in our modern times:
1) Decongestant Syrup Made With Honey
Honey is the perfect medium for creating a powerful natural decongestant that really works. This is because it can be used as a menstruum to help extract the powerful chemicals in the herbs used.
This sinus inflammation relieving decongestant packs not only the healing properties of honey, but combines with plant and spice powers for the best decongestant ever. In fact, I have friends ask me to make this for them many times each year---but it's so easy, you can do it yourself!
The thing about using honey is that honey contains antibacterial properties. This alone gives you a reason to buy that raw honey and use it!
Here is the recipe for my decongestant made with honey and spices. **This is the BEST decongestant I’ve ever used in my life.
2) Honey as a Facial Mask & to Wash Your Face
This is not really a healing action....except that honey can help with skin irritations and even acne. Yep! Crazy, right?
It’s pretty amazing how soft your face feels after washing with honey. Don’t believe me? Give it a try! I was skeptical too….until I gave it a go.
To wash your face, just take a tablespoon of honey, and massage it onto wet skin for a few minutes. Rinse well! To make this wash even more powerful, add a bit of cinnamon to the honey. The cinnamon helps increase circulation and also provides some exfoliation.
To make a facial mask, just apply some honey (with cinnamon if you like) thinly to your face, and allow it to sit for about 10 minutes or so. Rinse well with warm water.
3) Honey as a Sore Throat Soother
Honey is excellent for coating inflamed and swollen throats caused by illness or allergies. If you combine it with other herbs that have antibacterial and healing properties, you'll have a wonderful sore throat remedy.
Here's how to make lemon infused honey, and once you try this, you'll want to have it on hand all the time! You can also infuse your honey with Thyme, for an even more antibacterial throat soother.
Just take a teaspoon once to several times a day and enjoy! You can also add it to herbal tea or warm milk.
4) Raw Honey Boosts Your Immune System
There are a couple ways using raw honey (not heat treated or pasteurized) can boost your immune system.
The first way is through the components of the plant nectars the bees use to make the honey. These contain compounds that help keep us healthy! This is because the chemicals from the plants are naturally included in the bees’ honey, just like infusing the herbs.
The second way is that a special bacteria called Lactobacillus kunkeei is found in the raw honey of honey bees. This bacteria actually kills off other strains of bad bacterias. This is a very simple explanation, but you can find out more in this detailed article from GreenMedInfo.
5) Use Honey as a Wound Dressing
Honey has been used to help heal wounds for thousands of years! In fact, there has been a great deal of clinical research done on honey as a wound dressing and for healing wounds that proves honey is definitely an exceptional natural remedy.
Honey is antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and immune-stimulating. Here is some of the clinical evidence for using honey as an effective wound dressing in this article from Wounds Research.
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