Thirteen Great Health Benefits of Honey

Honey is medicine, food and drink.  

Whether you are sick or not, if you are not consuming honey every day, you are losing a great deal.

Researchers have shown that honey is one of the greatest medicines of the human body, just as food is medicine. The following are some of the known importance and great health benefits of honey:

1.       Strengthens Immune system: Honey is naturally an immune booster. Its antioxidants and bacteria-fighting asset against infections that are caused by viruses, bacteria and fungi. Daily consumption of honey is beneficial for boosting immunity in the short and long run and this is why honey is known to be one of the best immunity boosting foods. 

 

2.       Protects the Lungs and Respiratory System: Honey is used to solve respiratory tract infections and cough in the short and long run. Likewise, honey helps to prevent allergies and hypersensitivity reactions.

 

3.       Boosts Your Memory: The consumption of Honey also boost memory and concentration; i.e. increase brain power for kids and adults.

 

4.       Natural Power-Energy Drink: The regular intake of honey helps to energize the body and biochemical efficiency. 

 

5.       Food Supplement: Regular eating or drinking of honey (even as fluid) helps to prevent hunger and increase strength.

 

6.       Women’s Healthy Palliative: Consumption of honey reduces unwholesome cravings during pregnancy, cleans and protect the womb from fibroid growth, and helps in general health maintenance etc. 

 

7.       Break Addictions; Regular consumption of honey helps to break addictions from using drugs, smoking, drinking alcohol etc. and also helps to control other addictions both in the sensory organs.

 

8.       Kills Cancer Cells etc. researches say there are over 200 types of cancers. Anything that may cause a normal body cell to develop abnormally potentially can cause cancer. General categories of cancer-related or causative agents are as follows: chemical or toxic compound exposures, ionizing radiation, some pathogens, and human genetics. All these and others can be regulated with honey which is an antibody that helps fight against all kinds of infections or cell damage.

 

9.       Nourishes the Body/skin; Honey helps to prevent/control skin Diseases. Honey makes the skin to glow. That is also why it can cause drastic reduction in ageing apart from directly healing and renewing the organs of the body from the inside. Honey is a cleaning agent. 

 

10.   Honey is very helpful in weight Management; Honey makes a person to be less hungry and better satisfied and sustains the body for long. 

 

11.   Natural Sleeping Aid; if you can’t sleep at night, eat/take some good amount of honey directly or with warm water and you will sleep like a baby.

 

12.   Used for Healing Wounds and eliminate gum diseases. Many people are familiar with the use of honey for burns and wounds and it is very effective upon the skin from the inside and outside.

 

13.   Preservation of Corps from decomposing. During the early times of human advancement, honey was used to embalm dead bodies to prevent them from decomposing – such was done to the dead body of Alexander the great; it was dipped in drum of honey for preservation as long as possible. If honey is that powerful and effective on a lifeless body, how much more can it be on the internal body of a person with life or working organs?

 

Where to get original Honey:  In Nigeria, you can get original honey from limited places. In Abuja, you can contact the following numbers:  +234 812 954 8625, +234 806 297 7303.

If you have a comment, question or additional helpful information, kindly add it below.

Written by

Emmanuel Odagboyi

Private Researcher and Advocate of Healthy Living at H-TIPS Networks.