Honey for the night: the benefits and harm

Honey is a tasty and healthy beekeeping product. It is rich in vitamins, minerals, enzymes and other biologically active ingredients.This delicacy is suitable for use not only in the morning and afternoon, but also in the evening before bedtime. The natural product has a general healing and firming property. In order not to harm the body, you should know how to use honey at night, with which it is better to combine it, and also to study in which cases it may be harmful.

Honey has sedative properties. This means that it has a beneficial effect on the nervous system, calms, actively fights against insomnia, helping to fall asleep quickly. The product of beekeeping at night will be useful to almost everyone, since most people are constantly in stress and face problems with sleep.

Also, this delicacy has a number of useful properties.

• It nourishes the body with vitamins, organic acids and microelements. Due to this rich composition, it increases the body's natural defenses, strengthens the immune system. Therefore, a spoon of honey before bedtime will be especially useful during cold seasons.
• The product contains a number of enzymes that speed up the exchange reactions in the body. Improved metabolism contributes to weight loss person. It is not surprising that due to this peculiarity, many nutritionists advise to use a small amount of honey at night.
• Accelerates the process of tissue regeneration. Makes beautiful and healthy hair and skin.
• It has anti-inflammatory, antihistamine and antiviral effects.

Honey for the night can be used to cleanse and improve the quality of blood.

The quality of any honey will directly depend on what plants the bees collected nectar from. The most useful include several varieties.

• Meadow (from raznotsvetiya). The product has pronounced sedative properties. It helps to cure gynecological diseases, has anti-inflammatory, diaphoretic and diuretic effect.
• Buckwheat. The record for the content of vegetable proteins and iron. The use of this honey helps to normalize blood pressure and improve the quality of sleep. If you eat it at night, you can strengthen the walls of blood vessels, make them more elastic.
• Lime. Recommended for the prevention and treatment of colds. It has antipyretic, diaphoretic, anti-inflammatory effects. Helps relieve fatigue and nervous tension. Provides quick bedtime.

Despite the many beneficial properties of honey, it is necessary to use it both during the day and before bedtime so as not to harm the body.

Honey is a healthy product that is successfully used in cosmetology and traditional medicine. However, in some cases, its effect on health will be detrimental. First of all, it is strictly forbidden to use this product to people with individual intolerance to eliminate the risk of allergic reactions.

Also, pediatricians are not advised to give honey to children who have not reached the age of two. The fact is that there are many allergens in bee products - substances that cause skin rashes and itching. From the age of two it is recommended to gradually introduce a treat in the child’s diet. In the absence of allergic reactions, it is allowed to give 1 teaspoon per night as a sedative and immunomodulating agent. Honey is not recommended for use in diabetes. When introduced into the diet, there is a high risk of deterioration.There are non-absolute contraindications to the use of the product of beekeeping. Honey is contraindicated:

• persons with increased acidity of gastric juice;
• obese people.

It should be used with caution in people with kidney and heart disease.

In order not to harm health when consuming honey at night, should remember a number of important rules.

• The main thing - the dosage. The recommended daily volume of the product for an adult who has no contraindications is no more than 150 grams. No matter how tasty and useful delicacy is, they should not be abused. Honey for the night will be harmful if it is used above the prescribed rate.
• At night, a person is allowed to eat no more than 30 grams of honey. This is the amount that can not harm. Use of a product in excess of 30 grams can lead to the formation of extra pounds and disruption of the functioning of certain organs.
• After eating honey, rinse your mouth or brush your teeth. The product should not be in contact with the tooth enamel for a long time: this leads to the formation and development of pathogenic microorganisms that cause caries and other diseases of the oral cavity.

To prepare drinks, take 1 teaspoon of honey, 200 grams of bottled or filtered water. To prepare the "healing cocktail" you need to thoroughly mix these ingredients until the honey is completely dissolved.

Honey water for the night, prepared according to this recipe, will contribute to:

• blocking inflammatory processes in the body;
• cleansing the body of toxins and slags at the cellular level;
• fight against fungal microorganisms;
• calm nerves;
• fat burning.

Exchange reactions in the body can be accelerated by adding lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, ground cinnamon or ginger to such a drink.

To increase the benefits and nutritional properties of the drink, it is recommended to use not water, but milk. It consists of proteins, vitamins, fats and mineral components that are perfectly absorbed by the body. In most cases human health depends on these substances.

Doctors recommend honey milk for colds and flu. Usually, during these diseases, the person loses appetite. Honey with milk will help increase the calorie and nutritious diet, which is very important during the period of illness and loss of strength. Also, a milkshake with honey will make sleep stronger and longer. This property is most valuable for people suffering from insomnia.

To achieve the best effect, doctors recommend taking a warm drink. It will help to thin the mucus and reduce the acidity of the gastric juice. A cold cocktail will increase acidity and may exacerbate chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.

In order not to make honey water or milk a useless or harmful drink, it is not necessary to boil it or to pour boiling water over the product of beekeeping. With a weak heat treatment, some of the useful components in honey are destroyed. If it is heated to over 55 degrees, the process of isolating carcinogens, which promote the formation and development of cancer cells, will begin.

About the benefits of milk with honey at night, see the following video.