Bonus- cool facts about bees!
Seasonal allergies can be a pain. Itchy, watery eyes, and runny or stuffy nose. And not to mention the sneezing! Did you know that natural honey can relieve you of your allergy symptoms?
Bees fly from flower to flower collecting the nectar and pollinating the flowers so they can bloom and create vegetables and fruits.
🐝 Fun Fact: Honey bees fly at 15 miles per hour.
When they are full, they fly their collections to the hive where they pass it to the worker bees, who take turns processing (chewing it!) it into honey. Then they store it in honeycombs, and a beekeeper collects the honey and jars it for our sweetening pleasure.
🐝 Fun Fact: Bees store nectar in their "honey stomach", which is different from their regular stomach.
Because bees visit so many flowers, their honey is full of natural anti-allergens.
If you suffer from seasonal allergies, or allergies to grass, pollen, or other natural plants, local raw honey is your answer. You want to be sure to use raw honey, because the more that honey is processed and pasteurized by factories, the less of the natural goodness is left.
🐝 Fun Fact: Bees only visit flowers within a 100 mile radius of their hive.
Be sure to purchase honey from a local farm or beekeeper. You can find raw, local honey from farmer markets, but if your town does not have one ask the city council- they will point you in the direction of a local farm who collects raw honey. By staying local you are sure the honey is from bees who pollinate the very flowers you live around who are causing your symptoms.
By ingesting local, raw honey, you will allow your body to build up an immunity to the allergens that are plaguing you.
🐝 Fun Fact: Did you know that if the honeybees were to vanish from Earth, all life would cease to exist within two years?
Throw away those chemical laden allergy pills and stop suffering seasonal allergies by eating honey! And a bonus- you are supporting your local family farms 🐝
🐝# 6 More Amazing Health Benefits of Honey!
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DISCLAIMER: Do NOT give honey to infants 1 year and under. 🐝
Also, DO NOT eat unprocessed or raw honey if you are allergic to bees!
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Very interesting! Thanks for this nice article. Honey is really a real jack-of-all-trades. I will lookup if I can get raw honey for next spring. I have to sneeze only from thinking on the next spring :)
A hint for readers from Europe:
You may wonder what "raw honey" means. Honey in Europe normally is always raw - even many products from the supermarkets. Row honey is a marketing name in the US, the correct term should be "unprocessed honey".
If you are living in Europe, simply buy honey from your next beekeeper. It's unprocessed and raw!
@arbitrarykitten: Do you know how much and how often do you need to ingest honey? Are there studies which amount helps people with allergies?
There are studies. One prominent one says to take one tablespoon a day, but I personally drink at least two huge cups of tea a day- and I put two or three heaping tablespoons of honey in each. I used to have horrible spring grass allergies, they were so bad I would end up getting bronchitis from the allergy each year! But since I learned about this in 2009 I only use unprocessed local honey and barely see any symptoms on the worst days.
Each human is different so you have to adjust to your own body :) But, as you build up an immunity I imagine you can use a bit less each day. But I don't want to lol, plus honey has so many other health benefits!
... and the best part: It's very delicious :)
Thanks, i will try it next year. Then you really had severe problems with your allergy. Thankfully you found a "cure"!
Tea is a good idea, what tea do you recommend to drink with honey. I think fennel could be nice and black tea of course.
I wonder if drinking my own mead (made with unprocessed honey) has the same effects. I can imaging that the alcohol kills a lot of the honey benefits but I'm not sure. I should be save if I do both - tea and mead :D
I'm a just starting out wine maker! Mead! Yum!
I don't know... They say the alcohol process for wine makes it better for the heart and blood- ups the health benefits...
I say to be on the safe side drink both ;)
I drink a variety of teas. My fav is apricot vanilla white. I don't care too much for black tea, but green, white, red and herbal are always in my arsenal :)
Are you on Discord? We need to chat :)
Yes I have Discord. Sure, lets chat. But I'm going to sleep now, its late here in Germany :)
My name on Discord is TheCoach#1245. I'm in the PAL channels as well.
Cool, I'll send you a message. Sleep well :)
i always buy the unprocessed one , its have more value to the body than the processed one,
Start using the honey at least six weeks before your normal allergy season, so you can get your body to the state in needs to be in before the pollen invasion!
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I swear by eating local honey, you are having a small dose of an allergy which the body can then produce antibodies ready to tackle the real sneezing fits 😁
Lol yeah, only was a silly word choice ;)
you are a good writer..
Thank you!
Honey has a lot of benefits to the body , some time we ignore it cause we think its doesnt have value, its a better alternative to sugar , thanks for the info
Much better alternative to sugar!
Thanks for reading :)
Honey is incredible stuff. I've taken the local honey for a while now to combat hay fever and it's works great. By all accounts if stored properly it never goes bad. Honey has been discovered in the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs that is still edible thousands of years after being sealed. The ultimate prepper food I would suggest. 😉
Lol! I'm writing a companion article to this with the there thousand year old honey at reference!
Damn. You and I need to get together and talk... We think the same things...
Haha, great minds eh babe?
We should definately chat some time in discord. 😉
We MUST!
https://steemit.com/health/@arbitrarykitten/7-amazing-health-benefits-of-honey
Omg!!!!!!!! Too many interesting facts 😅
I also learnt bees has more than be stomach 😱.#honeystomach tho ,😅
Nice post 👍
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing facts about honey and bees. I think bees are really God-sent and the honey they produce is beneficial to the body in many ways including allergies as you mentioned in your post. The way that bees work,live and manage their hives is pure genius. Thank you for sharing :)
Bees are a truly spectacular creature.
Pretty much any species can go extinct and the world would keep on going. Bees become extinct and all life dies...
We are getting bees on our homestead next spring. I am busy planting a thousand flowers and bulbs in the meantime to give them plenty to feed on.
My eldest daughter suffers from a number of allergies, including hayfever. Hopefully our home-produced honey will be able to help her.
Oh you are so lucky!!! Please share photos this spring!
Honey is just awesome, it has great health properties, it's antibacterial, so it's also used on wounds and scars. Also, it's a great moisturizer...
Thanks for the article!
I know, right, honey is the almost perfect food!
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Glad you enjoyed it!
Good article about the honey. We tried a hive, but circumstances were less than perfect. So they swarmed! Great with fresh garlic.🐓🐓
Oh no! lol! Here's another I just wrote, because, well, honey IS the perfect food :) https://steemit.com/health/@arbitrarykitten/7-amazing-health-benefits-of-honey