The role of honey:
1. Chinese medicine believes that honey is sweet and flat, and belongs to spleen, lung, heart, stomach and large intestine meridians. Has the effects of nourishing yin, moistening dryness, tonifying deficiency, moistening lung, detoxicating and harmonizing various medicines. Commonly used for lung dryness, cough, physical weakness, intestinal dryness, constipation, aphtha, fire and water burns, and stomachache. It can also detoxify aconite and aconite.
2. Honey contains fructose, glucose, enzymes, protein, vitamins and various minerals. Eating regularly can prevent anemia, heart disease and gastrointestinal diseases. And can improve human immunity.
Monosaccharide: Glucose and fructose can be directly digested and absorbed by human body.
Enzymes: Various enzymes can promote the digestion and absorption of various substances.
Acetylcholine: Eliminate fatigue, excite nerves and improve memory.
Flavonoids: anti-oxidation, improve human immunity.
3. Honey = human serum
Honey is recognized as a natural nutritious food. Experiments show that honey contains various inorganic salts, such as iron, calcium, copper, manganese, potassium and phosphorus. Honey is called "the king of serum" because its concentration is similar to that of human serum, and there are various vitamins and organic acids.
Honey contains pollen grains, and frequent drinking of honey will produce certain resistance to pollen grain allergy: honey contains a very small amount of toxic liquid-bee venom, which also has certain antiallergic effect, and is often used to treat allergic diseases such as bronchitis and asthma in clinic. Eating a spoonful of honey every day can keep away allergic symptoms such as asthma and itching.
4. According to the different kinds of flowers collected by bees, they are divided into jujube nectar, Sophora japonica nectar, sunflower nectar, pear nectar, litchi nectar, Vitex negundo nectar, Chinese milk vetch nectar and so on. Different honey has different effects.
Fire-dispelling honey: Huanglian honey, loquat honey, Vitex negundo nectar, Astragalus sinicus nectar and Sophora japonica nectar.
Beauty beauty honey: lotus seed honey, wild rose honey and motherwort honey.
Lung-benefiting honey: Lycium barbarum honey, citrus honey, loquat honey.
Honey beneficial to the stomach: osmanthus honey, Schisandra honey, jujube honey, citrus honey, sesame honey.
Honey that is good for insomnia: longan honey, five wheat honey, jujube honey, preferably royal jelly.
Honey beneficial to laxative: All honey has laxative effect.
5. The color of honey is directly related to the types of honey sources collected by bees, so the color of honey brewed by different honey sources is very different. Sophora japonica honey and some light-colored honey have strong fragrance and good quality, but Dangshen honey, longan honey and jujube honey are also excellent honey because of their dark colors. Nutritionist's research shows that the content of protein and iron in dark honey is about 50% higher than that in light honey.
Health tips:
1. Honey "companion"
There are many ways to eat honey, which can be served with warm water or with various foods. For example, honey can be eaten with bread, milk, juice, porridge, soup and other breakfast foods.
The most nutritious breakfast-honey+milk
Honey contains a lot of monosaccharides, which can be directly absorbed by the human body and contains high heat energy: milk has high nutritional value and low heat energy. Drinking together can achieve the best effect of supplementing energy and nutrition.
2. Do not heat honey more than 60 degrees.
When the temperature is higher than 60 degrees, the bioactive enzymes in honey are destroyed and the nutritional value is reduced. So honey should not be heated at high temperature.
Honey should be put in glassware.
4. Diabetic patients should not take it.