Magical liquid in your kitchen you need to use more

Why is honey superior to sugar? I mean, they are both natural! Sugar cane is natural and as organic as anything can be so why are they not equal? How can they be the same when it takes around 60,000 bees and 2 million flowers to make a half kilogram of honey! It doesn’t stop there, when the nectar collected gets to the hive, it is mixed with enzymes and then stuff I don’t completely understand (because I am not a bee) happens. Point is, making of honey is a complicated process and thankfully, bees don’t cut corners so what we get is pure liquid gold. The health benefits associated with honey include;

Honey makes really good homemade cough medication

Honey is a demulcent (soothing medication used to relieve pain in inflamed tissues). It relieves irritation in your throat and mouth by forming a protective film. It is also good at suppressing coughs and when taken 30 minutes to bed time it prevents night coughs.

Treatment of wounds

Before penicillin, people used honey to treat wounds. This is because honey has anti-fungal, antibacterial and antioxidant properties. The sugar in honey helps wounds heal faster by helping them dry out a well as preventing growth of harmful bacteria that would make your wound worse. Honey is good at healing wounds that are resistant to the medication in the market. The research done on honey and wound healing shows that manuka honey (honey made from manuka bush pollen) is the best honey for treatment of wounds.

Relieves seasonal allergies

Allergies are reactions to substances not harmful to most humans. One of the symptoms of allergies is inflammation (redness, swelling, hotness and pain of a body part) Honey has anti-inflammatory properties meaning that honey can relieve allergies. When bees are collecting nectar to make honey, they collect some pollen with it. If you get pollen allergies, the small amounts of pollen in the honey can help your immune system build up natural immunity.

Excellent source of energy and blood sugar regulation

Even though honey contains simple sugars, the simple sugars in honey are better at regulating blood glucose than the simple sugars in common white sugar. This means that honey will give you energy and sustain the energy better than sugar will.

Increases athletic performance

When performing any kind of exercise or during an athletic event, you need a constant supply of energy from your body. Because of its blood sugar regulation properties, honey is a good source of energy for athletes.

Good for the skin

Honey is used in many beauty products and face masks. The antibacterial properties of honey have something to do with that. When used with other ingredients like milk, it can be used as a moisturiser and it can make your skin smooth and vibrant looking.

Source of vitamins and minerals

The vitamins and minerals in honey depend on the flowers used to make the honey. Honey may not be the best source of vitamins and minerals but sugar has zero vitamins and minerals so it is still a superior sweetener.

Treats dandruff

Applying honey mixed with a little warm water on the scalp and leaving it for three hours helps reduce the itching that comes with having dandruff. It also heals the wounds that come with scratching the head when someone has dandruff. Two weeks of honey therapy is sufficient to get rid of dandruff and heal scalp wounds.

PS, it is not safe to give honey to children under one year. Bacteria spores can be found in small percentage in honey. Adults and children over the age of one are safe but children under the age of one need time to build their immunity first.