Honey is regarded as LIQUID GOLD. It is one of the oldest and natural sweeteners on earth. It is produced by honey bees using nectar from flowers. Honey is then harvested from hives for human consumption. Colour and flavour of honey depend on a flower from which it is extracted. It is considered as the sweetest and pure liquid on earth.
Honey has been provided with great importance in Ayurvedic medicine due to its rich medicinal properties. It contains 70% to 80% sugar and rests vitamins, minerals and water. It possesses Antiseptic and Antibacterial properties too.
Find Out Some Quick Honey Health Benefits For Skin –
- Mix honey with warm water and gargle with this water. It gives relief from mouth sores.
- Honey can also be used to cure toothache. Soak cotton in honey and apply this on the tooth with pain. This gives relief from toothache.
- Mix honey with raw turmeric powder and make a paste. Apply this paste on the face to prevent wrinkling of the face.
- To lose weight, drink lukewarm water with 2 tablespoons of honey daily in empty stomach.
- Honey is good for type 2 diabetic patients, as it decreases the heart attack chance, by increasing good HDL Cholesterol.
- Honey also helps healing wounds and burn and is an effective treatment for a diabetic foot ulcer.
- While to gain weight drink milk with honey regularly.
- Make a paste of ginger. Now, mix one tablespoon of honey with paste. Eat this mixture to give relief from cough.
- It helps boost the immune system and increase memory.
- Mix honey with black pepper powder. Apply this paste over wounds for quick healing.
- Honey is also a natural ingredient for dandruff. Mix 2 tablespoon of honey with any hair oil and apply it on the scalp and overall hair. Leave for 15minutes and wash off. It smoothes hair and leaves it shiny.
- It can also treat Eczema. Mix some honey with olive oil and apply it in affected areas.
- It is also a natural exfoliator. Mix it with oats and make a paste of it and apply it on the skin as a face pack. It helps remove dead skin cells.
- Mix 2 tablespoon of honey with two tablespoon curd, one tablespoon talcum powder and few drops of lemon juice. Make a paste and apply it over face, neck and hands. Keep it for 15 to 20 mins and then wash it off. Do not apply soap after this on skin. This reduces dark spots and brighten up skin.
- Mix lemon drops with honey and apply it over face and neck regularly. This reduces wrinkles over face and gives fresh, young looking skin.
- In winter season skin gets rough and dry. Mix honey with milk cream in equal proportion and apply it over face, neck and hands. Wash it off after some time. This gives you soft supple skin in winters.
- Mix honey with wax and glycerin in equal proportion. Rub this mixture over face before going to bed at night and wash it off in the morning. This gives beautiful radiant glowing face.
- Honey is very beneficial for hairs. If you have split ends or rough hairs, then mix one cup of honey with two big spoons of lemon juice and a half cup of olive oil. Fill a bottle with this oil. Now, apply this mixture in roots of the hair after every 2 to 3 days. After rubbing the oil in hairs, cover your hair with a warm cloth for 30 mins. Now, wash your hairs with shampoo. This makes your hair smooth and shinier and also reduce split ends.
- Honey with Multani Mitthi and lemon juice when applied over the skin, reduces dryness of the skin.
- To look younger, women of ancient times use to mix honey with egg white properly. This mixture when applied over face for 30 mins or till it dries, gives you hydrated skin. It removes dryness of the skin.
- Cabbage juice with honey and yeast, when mixed together and applied over the face, reduces dryness of face and gives a fresh look.
- People with problems of insomnia (decreased sleep at night), should take honey with water at night. This gives good sleep.
- Few drops of honey when given in ear reduce earache.
- Soaked gram pulses when eaten with honey in the morning, reduce weight.
