It can be confidently asserted that most people have never heard of the existence of spray honey and do not even suspect about its interesting healing properties.
Nevertheless, with regular use of sprayed honey helps to significantly improve the body and rejuvenate it.
What is it?
Very often in the meadow open spaces or even along motor roads you can meet thickets of an interesting plant of a spray known in the people as Ivan-tea.
This unpretentious plant exudes a strong, pronounced aroma, which attracts bees like a magnet. Therefore, a delicacy with an interesting name, unsurpassed floral aroma and exquisite, pleasant taste, in fact, is honey from the willow-tea.
Important: in appearance, this product of beekeeping is in many respects similar to cream of yellow or greenish color, while it is absolutely transparent. It is prone to rapid crystallization, and grains themselves are more like snow flakes, and the process of the formation of grains is accompanied by a change in the shade to milky white.
Certainly, such signs can confuse even experienced honey lovers, what can we say about the ordinary buyer! But these are the features of real kaprejnogo honey, for which he still received the nickname "snowball".
It contains:
- sugar;
- tannins, including tannin;
- antioxidants;
- microelements;
- amino acids;
- macronutrients;
- vitamins, in particular C, B1, B2, B3, E, PP.
Useful properties
Because the spray is a medicinal plant, the honey obtained from it also has healing power.
He:
- Has a sedative effect, so it helps well for insomnia, increased nervousness, frequent stress, etc.
- A beneficial effect on the quality of the functioning of the digestive system, because it contains substances that produce an anti-inflammatory and enveloping effect. Due to this, it is often recommended to take to combat gastritis with acidity, constipation, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, etc.
- It has antibacterial and antiviral effect, hence this property of spray honey will be irreplaceable in the treatment of influenza, bacterial infections, includingangina, acute respiratory disease. It also allows the use of this beekeeping product as a means for external use, for example, in furuncles, infected wounds, ulcers and other skin diseases.
Warning! On the strength of antibacterial activity, boiling honey in many respects surpasses some medicines.
- Prevents the formation of malignant cells and tumors in the tissues of the body due to the high content of antioxidants.
- Activates the processes of hematopoiesis, which can be used for anemia and for the prevention of other blood diseases.
- Relieves headaches of various origins.
- Strengthens blood vessels and heart muscle. Due to these beneficial properties, spray honey is recommended to be taken regularly if there is atherosclerosis.
- Normalizes blood pressure.
- Has anticonvulsant effect.
- Effective peeling honey with royal jelly in the treatment of diseases of the prostate.
Application in cosmetology
Useful properties of honey from spray can also come in handy in cosmetology.
For example, masks prepared on its basis help:
- slow down the aging process;
- to smooth wrinkles;
- give the skin silky and velvety;
- clean the pores;
- to improve the quality of skin nutrition, etc.
Important: it is better to apply any masks to steamed skin.
To cleanse the problem skin, it is recommended to use honey water to wash your face or take honey baths in order to improve the skin of the whole body. For example, with acne it is worth trying to wipe your face with lotion, prepared from 1 tbsp.l.spray honey, 1 liter of water, 1 liter of chamomile broth. The remaining mixture must be stored in the refrigerator.
Also cope with acne, acne and increased skin fat can mix of 200 ml of decoction of marigolds and a tablespoon of honey. It is impregnated with the necessary amount of cotton swabs and applied to the face for at least 20 minutes. This procedure allows not only to narrow the pores and disinfect the skin, but also to moisturize it well. Many excellent recipes from honey for cleansing the skin and fighting inflammation, you will find in the article: Acne, acne and acne will go away irrevocably from the honey "sling"!
Warning! Before applying any product to the face or large areas of the skin, you need to check how well it is tolerated. To do this, it is applied to the skin of the elbow bend, the reaction is evaluated after 12 hours.
Contraindications
In general, completely abandon kiprejnogo honey will be for those who suffer from allergic reactions to bee products. In all other cases, you can take it, but only in moderation.
With extreme caution, hypertensive patients should be treated, since mixing of sprayed honey with plant extracts such as eleutherococcus and others can lead to increased pressure.
How to choose?
Thus, it became clear that the spray honey has a characteristic appearance, because of what many take a fresh product for sugar syrup or a counterfeit of a different kind. Therefore, it is very easy to abandon the extremely useful and little-known to a wide range of people, but at the same time one of the most popular product in Russia, after all the willow-tea thickets still impress with their density and prevalence.
Thus, how to distinguish a fake honeydew honey can not say practically no one. In this case, you usually rely on your own intuition. Although still be convinced of its naturalness can be with ammonia. It must be added in the brewed honey. If after that the solution does not immediately turn into a dirty brown color or there is no precipitate in it, honey is considered natural.