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Medicine
In The Food Cupboards

For Stress

Honey in water is a stabilizer - calms highs and raises lows. Use approximately 25 percent honey to water.

Anemia 

Honey is the best blood enricher by raising corpuscle content. The darker the honey the more minerals it contains.

Food Preservative 

Cakes with honey replacing sugar stay fresher longer due to natural antibiotics. Reduce liquids by approximately one-fifth to allow for moisture in honey.

Heart Patients 

These people are well advised to replace white sugar (sucrose) with honey, natural fructose and glucose.

Hay Fever 

Chewing the tops of comb honey stimulates the immune system due to minute amounts of pollen. During the season chew for 20 minutes a teaspoon of bee cappings (tops) five to six times per day. Highly effective and useful for asthma suffers as well.

Baby’s Bottle 

Four teaspoons of honey to a baby’s bottle of water is an excellent pacifier and multivitamin additive. If baby’s motions are too liquid then reduce by half a teaspoon; if too solid increase by half a teaspoon.

Teething 

Honey rubbed on a baby’s gums is a mild sedative and anesthetic.

Osteoporosis 

English research has shown that a teaspoon of honey per day aids calcium utilization and prevents osteoporosis. Essential from age 50 onwards.

Long Life 

One common fact worldwide is that the most long-lived people are regular users of honey. An interesting fact yet to be explained is that beekeepers suffer less from cancer and arthritis than any other occupational group worldwide.

Migraines 

in half a glass of warm water. Sip at start of attack. If necessary repeat in 20 minutes. Always effective (so tip goes) as migraine is stress related.

Conjunctivitis (pus in the eye) 

Honey dissolved in equal quantity of warm water. Apply when cooled as lotion or eye bath.

COUGH MIXTURE

6 ozs liquid honey

2 ozs glycerine

Juice of 2 lemons

Mix well. Bottle and cork firmly. Use as require.

Keep honey in first aid cupboard for emergency burns etc...
and another in the kitchen cupboard. 

Article kindly supplied by J.P. Welten, Maroa Apiaries, Taupo