Taboos when using honey that everyone should know
Honey has long been considered one of the foods with high nutritional value and is very good for health. However, not everyone can use honey and below are the taboos when using honey that you need to know.
1. Uses of honey
Honey is sweet and neutral; enters the spleen, lung, and large intestine meridians.
-Increase body resistance, prevent infection: You should eat 5 teaspoons of honey every day, can eat with bread or drink with tea, fresh milk.
- Body nourishment:Honey whipped with egg yolk, eat one egg a day will make your skin rosy, your body healthy. Can drink continuously for 1 month, 2-3 times a week, maintain for 2-3 months a year.
-Recovering after illness:Honey mixed with Panax pseudoginseng powder, eating a small bowl with each meal can help restore strength when just recovering from illness. Take 3 - 5g Panax pseudoginseng mixed with 2-3 teaspoons of honey, use for about 15 consecutive days after illness.
- Reduces symptoms of flu:Drink a cup of warm lemon water with 2 teaspoons of honey added. Continue until symptoms disappear.
- Cough treatment:A fresh lemon, score the outer layer, then add a few teaspoons of honey to soak the whole lemon. Leave for about 1-2 hours, then cut it open and suck on it to relieve cough and can be used until symptoms disappear.
Note, you need to choose pure wild honey from a reputable production facility. Store honey in glass containers or other items that do not cause oxidation reactions with the honey's ingredients.
2. Who should not use honey?
Although honey is very good for health, it should not be used in the following cases:Infants and children under 1 year old because it can easily cause allergic reactions.Pregnant women.People with low blood pressure or low blood sugar.New surgery, npeople with cirrhosis,diabetes (depending on the severity of the disease, consult an endocrinologist),Digestive dysfunction (honey has a laxative effect, so people with diarrhea, chronic colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, diarrhea and bloating should not use it).People with a history of allergies to some ingredients of honey.
3. Taboos when using honey that you must not forget
- Honey is incompatible with onions and raw garlic:Honey should not be used with raw onions or garlic..These two things are incompatible because onions and garlic are hot and spicy, while honey is sweet and hot. Spicy and spicy will deplete the Qi, so the two things will clash with each other and cause heat stagnation and bloating. You can treat this condition by drinking licorice water.
-Honey is incompatible with soybeans:Honey combined with soybeans will cause bloating, colon stagnation, and even death.
Soybeans are rich in nutrients such as protein and amino acids; provide fat, carbs and many vitamins and minerals, which are very beneficial for the body. Although soybeans and honey are good, when these two things are combined, biochemical reactions will occur with the enzymes, minerals and vegetable proteins in honey and soybeans, causing poisoning and diarrhea. The mixture of soybeans and honey solidifies in the stomach, causing difficulty breathing and can lead to coma.
How to detoxify when eating soybeans with honey:If you are poisoned by eating soybeans with honey within 6 hours, you need to make the poisoned person vomit all the food they ate. Induce vomiting to help the poisoned food leave the body.
-Infants under one year of age should not eat honey:Honey is rich in nutrients and is a healthy food. Therefore, many parents add honey to the food or milk of infants and young children to adjust the taste and increase nutritional value.
However, experts point out that it is not suitable for infants and children under 1 year of age to eat honey. Honey is susceptible to botulinum contamination during incubation and transportation, as bees can carry botulinum-infected pollen and honey back to the hive during the process of collecting pollen. Botulinum toxin spores can still survive at temperatures as high as 100°C.
Because the digestive function of children is still weak and the detoxification function of the liver is poor, especially in children under 6 months, botulinum toxin can easily multiply in the intestines and produce toxins, thereby causing poisoning.
-Do not drink honey with hot water:Honey contains a large amount of oxidizing solvents. Using hot boiling water to mix honey can destroy these solvents, producing many OH radical aldehydes, causing the nutritional composition of honey to change a lot.
Studies show that using hot water above 60 degrees Celsius to mix honey will significantly increase hydroxymethyl furfuraldehyde (HMF) - this is a natural carcinogen.
-Do not use honey for people with heat:People with a hot constitution will feel hot inside when using honey. According to Oriental medicine, honey is hot in nature. People with a hot constitution such as being hot inside, having hot feet and hands, having hot flashes to the head, mouth ulcers, belching, heartburn, etc. should not use it or if they do use it, they should use it in small amounts, 1-2 teaspoons a day, for 2-3 days when necessary.
In traditional medicine, "heat meets heat, causes madness", if people with heat body abuse honey, it will make the user feel restless, uncomfortable, have chest tightness, insomnia...
- Interaction with western medicine:Pure honey can interact with birth control pills, hypoglycemic drugs... so avoid using honey with these drugs./.