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What Exactly is Raw Honey? Custom Search Raw honey, especially the really raw product are simply amazing. Would you like to know just what the health benefits of honey are? But first we need to know and understand what the difference is between this honey and other types of honey. This is a very easy question to answer even though all those jars are quite confusing aren't they? Raw honey is the honey the honey bees make which is still in the honey frames in the bee hive, packed tightly in the intricate looking honeycombes. It has not yet been touched by the beekeeper; it is still sitting there in the raw waiting for you to dive in and taste! This is the real thing. A fantastic way to buy really raw honey is to buy local raw honey either from a local beekeeper or a local farmers market, this is the best way to achieve the health benefits of honey. This is just one of those who are into beekeeping greatest pleasures, producing through their joined efforts with the amazing little honey bee a golden, healing, sweet and totally delicious nectar known as raw fresh honey. If you prefer to buy your Raw Honey on-line as many people do because there are no local beekeepers in your area (why not become one) there is always a good selection for sale at very reasonable prices. This for me was at the National Honey Show in England where I not only tasted some of the very best raw honey but also some of the amazing honey wine my own local beekeepers also make from their own raw honey. Certainly makes a change from the grape variety! They like nothing more than extracting the bee honeycomb and drinking the contents straight from it and experiencing the benefits of eating honey! This is nature's purest medicine and is totally delicious. Save Our Honey Bees. When the beekeeper removes it from the bee hives it is full of little bits of pollen which is highly regarded as a super food. Superfoods are also essential to maintaining our health, being armed with food nutrition facts is one way we can be sure of this. Along with all the benefits of raw honey which always contains pollen you will discover all the phytonutrients, proteins, antioxidants and vitamins essential to our health. I strongly advocate the benefits associated with eating super foods and recently had an email from Ellen who lives in delightful New England where the famous sage kind of honey is produced. Ellen told me a funny little story (which was not funny to her at the time) about picking a marigold that a bumble bee just happened to be using as an umbrella at the time! She says she received a buzz and a sting.......Ouch! She further referred to paper wasps as thinking that an area of a 20 foot radius around them was considered by them as protected airspace and their sting could be likened to a winged hypodermic needle. She is not wrong! Ellen owns a website (link at bottom of this page) which gives amazing advice on how to achieve peak health with excellent advice about super foods. Real Raw Honey? Other contents in really raw honey are Propolis, beeswax, bits of cappings which makes it slightly crunchy and most likely a few dead bees who have gorged themselves to death eating it and who can blame them! Please don't worry about this because the beekeeper will strain the honey completely before you get to eat it if you prefer and it has almost always been strained when you buy it from a store. Raw honey varies in taste and colour depending on the honeybee gardens the bees have collected their nectar from and can be darker in colour if there is a build up of old Propolis. Propolis is how the honey bees keep their hives spotlessly clean. This is one of the reasons a beekeeper will change their hives or honeycomb frames every three to four years. Purely to keep their honey a lighter colour as this appears to be more popular with consumers although this does not really make any difference to the health benefits of honey or the medical benefits of honey. Bee keeping is a huge business and one that is a passion for a hobbyist who just owns even one hive. Their end product is used frequently to benefit all his loved ones, he or she knows the true benefits of eating honey. Commercially produced raw honey can only be labelled as so when low heat and minimum processing has taken place. of Raw Honey? Interestingly, researchers who carried out studies in Europe only a few years ago discovered that beekeepers in that area were living very long healthy lives without ever having to see a doctor for health or medical problems. That says an awful lot about its health benefits. Even though there are many types of honey, people do tend to seek out local raw honey as both prevention and as a cure for their seasonal allergies such as hay fever and respitory diseases. Because there appears to be many of us who dread the lovely long summer months which can bring the streaming eyes and noses due to pollen spores in the air, it has been recommended we eat our own local produced honey on a daily basis. By doing this we can actually desensitize ourselves from these irritations. If you, you poor thing are one of these people who suffer with hay fever, it would benefit you greatly to buy some local honey if there is a supply near you. If you are lucky enough to have a local farmers market near you this would be an excellent source to seek it out. An Oklahoma allergist once informed a meeting of 150 beekeepers that raw honey is an effective treatment for 90 per cent of all allergies. Dr. William G. Peterson, an allergist from Ada in the 1950s, said he now has well in excess of 22,000 patients across the nation who are using honey to relieve their allergy symptoms. He and the many doctors at his clinic advise a daily teaspoon of honey. The honey treatment can continue even after the allergy is under control. According to further research carried out in Bulgaria, because honey has anti-allergic, anti-inflammatory, and expectorant properties this ensures the body has an immunobiological defence and gives it the capacity to regenerate its attacked cells thus promoting healing. A study once conducted by a Mr Robert Bloomfield which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, concluded that raw honey which if applied every 2 to 3 days promotes healing of ulcers and burns better than any other application. This can also be applied to other surface wounds, including cuts and abrasions for super quick healing. Pretty impressive don’t you think! Beekeepers who plan to sell their honey must check out any local rules that apply by contacting their local Health Department and the Department of Agriculture. There are no hard and fast rules and they do tend to vary from area to area. Honey has been sold and eaten for thousands of years quite safely so you needn’t be unduly worried about buying it. No bacteria can grow in honey, it has an extensive shelf life and if you store this in a sealed jar in your cupboard it will last for years! Local honey producers also have fun creating their own labels and love decorating the jars and cans they use; of course it goes without saying these must be squeaky clean. Beekeepers always think it a good idea to offer their customers a taste of their honey first; so many of them have a selection of breadsticks available to you for dipping and tasting. Take advantage of this as you may discover a particular flavor you prefer. You will often find that your local honey produce will vary in flavour from harvest to harvest; again this much depends on the source of nectar collected by the worker bees although they do tend to like the same source each year, whichever is available to them. Perhaps you have heard of Artisanal Honey a form of raw honey where no two years taste the same! This organic raw honey is said to be the honey connoisseur’s first choice. in the benefits of eating honey! Eat it all year round for best effects and hopefully you will soon stop the sneezing and runny eyes of which millions put up with. But you don't have to! Try it in your tea for a superb healthy alternative to nasty sugar substitutes. Health Benefits of Raw Honey Increase the best raw honey you can buy into your daily diet and use it for its vast benefits. The health and medical benefits of this raw fresh honey are amazingly clever when it comes to help fight the signs of growing older. My own family would be pretty put out if my cupboards were getting low in supply. We keep jars in the kitchen and the bathroom. A famous physician by the name of Dr. Schacht, of Wiesbaden, has cured many gastric and intestinal ulcers with honey without the use of surgery. He has the courage and conviction to praise the health benefits of raw honey. Beekeepers and their close friends and family have always known that honey will cure these conditions which can be quite dangerous even leading to cancer in some cases. However, there is still wariness amongst some in the medical profession. Many physicians, who are aware of it, are afraid to make such suggestions for fear of being laughed at by their colleagues and scientifically inclined patients. Dr Peter Molam from New Zealand has proved that honey will indeed cure these and many more conditions by scientifically working out the medicinal benefits of honey and just how and why honey works. His extensive research centres mainly around Manuka honey however, he assures us that a really good raw honey is quite capable of doing an equally good job. Many years ago I and my own family even invented our own honey diet, this is one of if not the main reason we very rarely suffer with any cold or flu symptoms and each and every one of us has a healthy immune system. If your honey crystallizes and you prefer it to be runny, no problem, just stand the jar in a bowl of hot water for a while shaking it from time to time and it will return to its normal runny texture. This will not affect its properties at all as long as you don't overheat it. It appears to be the most popular amongst honey lovers for eating and using in honey recipes. It is however available to buy world wide and it really depends on personal choice and taste which of course will vary from area to area. I can vouch for it as being one of my favourite of all the honeys there are. Raw honey is amazing due to its incredibly clever anti-microbial properties; it has been discovered in ancient Egyptian tombs, buried there for thousands of years and is still edible, it just never goes off. I wonder if it still tastes nice.......now that is really raw honey! The ancients would also embalm the bodies of their loved ones and bury it with their deceased for use in the afterlife. Organic Raw Honey? This as far as we know can be attributed to Preadamatic man who were probably very curious as to this food source they discovered and this is no doubt where our friendship was first bonded with the little honey bees. Whoever first tasted it must have been in heaven! Unfortunately we will never know their name but they were quick to realise that fresh raw honey would be an important part of their lives. Perhaps it was Hippocrates we should thank for discovering the truly amazing nutrition of honey for helping to heal his patients. Let’s hope for more of a revival with this wonderful stuff in our diets and continue to discover more of honey uses. Avid honey bee keepers are the healthiest people around, they hardly ever have a need to visit a doctor, and they know the real health benefits of raw honey! Together (hmmm, campaign coming up) we must help to stop honey bees disappearing, we need them so much. I'm certainly not suggesting we should all be covered in honey however, there are bits of us that will certainly be medically cured and healed and we'll all be feeling soooo much healthier for using honey and the added benefits of Propolis. Moisturizer for the skin Beauty Benefits of Honey With your honey perhaps you would like to make your own, homemade Beauty Product, fantastic for so many things. For Great Dental Care and Mouth Ulcers.Rinse your teeth, mouth and dentures, this will stop bleeding gums and help prevent tooth decay. Apply to a cold sore as soon as it starts and stop it in its tracks, this really works. For your Hair and Dandruff. Honey will soon clear these up for you making your hair flake free and giving your hair a beautiful shine. Apply to your hair and leave for an hour or so before rinsing with clean fresh water. For Fungal Nail Infections, Fingers and Toes.Just watch the benefits of raw honey get to work here, eating away and destroying those fungal infections. For Sore Throats, Coughs and Colds.Gargle regularly with honey and sip warm honey water with lemon to kill off those nasty little germs.
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