Gum with honey: useful properties and contraindications
Honey is a very healthy product.If you mix it with sap, you get a healing drug for any ailments. And to enhance the healing properties of gum honey, it is also recommended to add propolis and perga to it.
Features of the composition
Conifers do not have flowering periods, so pollinating insects are not able to collect pollen from them. Accordingly, honey with sap is a product of manual labor. Cumin is collected with a scraper in places of damage to the bark, and then mixed in equal proportions with natural honey. Before mixing the two components, each of them is individually heated in a water bath. After stirring, the mixture stews for another 15 minutes with regular stirring.
The result is a mass of amber color with a dark-green tint, which is associated with cedar resin. The final taste of the product depends on the honey, which was taken as a basis. Floral varieties reveal coniferous aroma more perceptibly, and in a mixture of turpentine and buckwheat or honeydew honey, a tart flavor prevails. Adding resin into honey allows you to significantly increase the beneficial properties of the primary product. After cooking, the honey is transferred to a tightly closed pottery or glass dish.
Recommended storage conditions: dark place, air temperature not higher than +25 degrees. At observance of recommended standards, gum honey can be stored for a very long time without losing its beneficial properties. If you want to make honey with tar according to an old Siberian recipe, the first thing you need to do is freeze the tar. Then chop it and mix with honey in equal parts. In that case, if the resulting mixture will be used as a tool for massage and rubbing, you must add the same part of vegetable oil.
What is the use?
Honey with sap is a very tasty and, at the same time, a healing agent. Cedar brings a savory flavor to the taste.
The positive properties of honey tar can be attributed to:
- localization of inflammatory processes;
- raising the immune-protective properties of the organism;
- cleansing of the circulatory system;
- improving the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract;
- tightening wounds;
- disinfecting effect;
- excretion of toxins, slags, heavy metals;
- treatment of infections, respiratory diseases, ARVI;
- strengthening the heart muscle;
- rehabilitation of the kidneys and liver;
- normalization of blood pressure;
- increased concentration and attention;
- skin rejuvenation;
- stabilization of the nervous system;
- removing chills or fever;
- normalization of the urogenital and endocrine systems;
- strengthening joints and restoring musculoskeletal functions;
- normalization of sleep.
You will learn more about the beneficial properties of sap honey by watching the following video.
Application
In order to maintain good condition, it is necessary to take only 1 tsp. honey on an empty stomach in the morning and before bedtime. If the product is used as a remedy, the recommended dose may be increased (for example, to normalize the work of the stomach, you must take a teaspoon of honey before each meal). 100 grams of gummy honey contains 382 callas, which is 13% of the required daily allowance.
Honey with resin can be added to herbal teas, ointments, masks for skin (mixtures containing resin in the composition should not be applied to the skin of the face and body more than 2 times a week). Continuous use of the resin inside can not last more than a month. A break after the course of treatment should be at least 3 weeks.
Who should not be used?
Honey with gum is a storehouse of beneficial microelements and a natural doctor, however, there are also contraindications for its use.
The product should not be consumed:
- women in position;
- children under 12;
- persons prone to allergic reactions;
- in the presence of individual intolerance to the substance.
Finding if you are allergic to tar is easy. A few drops of funds should be applied to the wrist and rub into the skin.Observe the area where the preparation was applied for 24 hours. If the skin does not turn red, there are no contraindications to the use of honey.
The risk group, representatives of which you can use gum honey very carefully and in small quantities, include:
- people with kidney disease;
- pensioners;
- persons with exacerbations of chronic diseases, gastritis, hepatitis (acute);
- dieters;
- diabetics.
Representatives of the group at risk before using and using honey with cedar gum need to consult a specialist.
How to choose?
For honey to have a healing effect, you need to choose a good quality product. For this, it is very important to know the signs by which honey can be checked for authenticity. The first method is visual assessment. This product with gum should be quite viscous, and its surface should shine. The color of honey can vary from light yellow to brownish. This is due to the basic shade of honey, which is taken as a basis (lime, honeydew, buckwheat, and others). The taste of natural gummy honey a little bitter, gives the needles.
How to make yourself?
To always be sure of the quality of the honey that you take, it is best to cook it yourself. The difficulty lies in finding the original honey as the basis for the future product, as well as natural resin. As a way out of the situation, it is better to proceed as follows. Honey to buy from the apiary, the products of which are used by your friends, and sap - in the pharmacy. The only thing you need to ask the pharmacist is the purpose of the resin, whether it can be consumed inside or it is used exclusively as an external agent. It would be useful to take a look at the certificate of conformity.
The larch resin is the most useful, immediately after it comes the cedar variety of resin, which is most often used as a component for the honey mixture. Fir resin has also healing properties, but it is rather difficult to get it, it is better to take pine. The most useful resin in fresh form, liquid consistency, but the inhabitants of Siberia, it is often frozen, and then used as a crushed product.
For ingestion, honey and turpentine should be combined in a proportion of 60: 1. For external use, the resin concentration increases - 20: 1. Honey can be chosen of any kind, but it is better to choose a product based on its medicinal properties. So, buckwheat honey will increase hemoglobin level, acacia will give strength, strengthen the general condition, improve sleep, relieve anxiety and stress, allow you to cope with gastrointestinal ailments, gall bladder and kidney diseases, lime honey will cope with respiratory viral diseases and raise immunity.
Before mixing the substances, they are individually heated in a water bath to a soft state. Then combine, mix well and leave in a water bath for another 10 minutes. The treatment course begins with the use of one teaspoon of product per day. Gradually, the dosage can be increased to 3 tablespoons. They are accepted, divided into several techniques. A prerequisite - honey you need to eat only on an empty stomach, drinking water (pure or mineral non-carbonated) or to dissolve the honey in it.
Recipes for bronchitis
To disappear cough and wheezing in the sternum, it is necessary to prepare a medical mixture according to the following recipe.
It will take:
- honey;
- cedar resin;
- beeswax;
- vegetable oil.
Each component will require about 200 ml. All products folded in a saucepan, mix well and simmer over low heat, stirring regularly to ensure that the mass has a uniform consistency. The most important thing is to ensure that the mixture does not boil, otherwise all useful compounds will collapse. At the end of cooking comes the liter of the finished product. After the mass has cooled, it must be put into a jar and put into the fridge. It is recommended to take the product 30 minutes before a meal, drinking warm milk.Per day you need to eat 3 tsp of honey-resin mixture, dividing this amount into 3 doses. A liter can of product lasts for a 30-day treatment course.
Cough cream
To get rid of the lingering cough, which worries especially at night, you must use a rub from crushed frozen turpentine, mustard oil and wax. Components are taken in equal shares. Mustard oil needs to be heated, add resin. Put the mixture in a water bath and, with regular stirring, bring to a uniform consistency. Do not allow the mixture to boil. At the end of the preparation, strain the mixture through cheesecloth, add melted wax. Mix well and allow the mass to cool.
It is recommended to rub the thoracic region and the back with gum rub immediately before bedtime. The skin in the places of application of the ointment should warm up and turn red. It is advisable to wrap the smeared places in a woolen shawl or vest so that they warm up well. Such a compress can be made to children, if not previously identified allergic reactions to any component that is part of the rubbing. Strongly rub the ointment kids are not recommended. It is enough to gently rub into the skin and wrap.
Honey Cream
Resin and honey are often mixed to prepare external ointments.
To make your own gum cream, you will need:
- resin - 100 grams;
- honey - 100 grams;
- essential oil (based on individual preferences) - 3 tbsp. l .;
- perhydrol - 5 drops;
- aloe juice - 7 ml;
- beeswax - 17 grams.
All components must be connected and put in a water bath. At the end of the preparation, the mass is filtered (preferably through gauze). Apply the mixture can be only on well-cleansed skin. Through cosmetics or oily shine formed on the skin, the ointment will not be able to penetrate deep into the epidermis and produce the proper healing effect. Honey-resin cream will reduce the manifestations of varicose veins, cope with SARS, acute respiratory infections and sinusitis, prevent the formation of skin scars.