Chestnut honey is such exclusive in the world of beekeeping. It cannot so often be found on counters of shops if it is about high quality of a product. Chestnut honey differs in weak slightly bitter taste, a dark shade and unforgettable aroma and yet some people are inclined to consider it not such tasty as a lime or flower product of beekeeping. But chestnut delicacy renders huge advantage for health therefore the prices of it "bite" a little. In this article we will in detail talk about advantage of this product for a human body.
Caloric content, vitamins and minerals
The beekeeping product got from chestnut flowers has smaller caloric content, in comparison with other types of honey. For example, the caloric content of buckwheat honey is 301 kcal on 100 g of a product while chestnut honey contains only 284 kcal. Agree, for those who use beekeeping products rather often, a difference in 17 kcal on 100 g of a product are rather big indicators.
The product does not contain proteins in the structure, however the carbohydrate component reaches indicators in 33%. Among vitamins B of this sweet it is possible to find: thiamine (B1), folates (B9), ascorbic acid (C), nicotinic acid (RR) and also B2 and B6 vitamins. In addition, chestnut honey is rich in various macro - and minerals: copper, iodine, iron, phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, zinc, fluorine, potassium, calcium. Besides, the product contains fructose, sucrose, a diastase, a catalase and phosphatase.
Whether you know? The world leader in production of honey is China. However you will be able to buy the most expensive honey in the world only in Israel, there for 1 kg of such product will ask about 200 dollars for you.
Advantage for an organism
In view of existence in structure of this product of beekeeping of a large amount of substances, useful to a human body, it is regularly used in the medical purposes for prevention and the sparing treatment of some diseases. Doctors note that chestnut honey is very useful at cold and flu as it contains a lot of vitamin C.
Thanks to existence in the structure of the whole group B of vitamins, the chestnut product will help to overcome frequent stresses, regular fatigue, nervous tension, and problems with nervous system often provoke diseases of a cardiovascular system.
The hypertension, arthrosis, atherosclerosis, heart troubles — these problems can cease to disturb you if to use sweet from chestnut pollen regularly. The fact is that it contains a lot of potassium and magnesium, and these elements are irreplaceable satellites of normal work of a cardiac muscle and blood vessels.
Chestnut honey stimulates bile outflow therefore it is actively used by traditional medicine at treatment of developments of stagnation in a liver. Thanks to low acidity and good absorbability in a stomach and intestines, well influences a GIT. Children chestnut honey are given for stimulation of work of a brain (level of learning ability and progress at school increases). It also strengthens the immune system, cleans an organism from harmful toxins, removes sand from kidneys.
We advise to read about the vitamins necessary for strengthening of immunity, improvement of memory, work of a brain, a liver.
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Quite recently scientists found out that it is expedient to use honey from chestnut color as auxiliary therapy at treatment of diseases of a prostate. Thanks to unique structure, this product is capable to intensify blood circulation in a zone of male genitals. Besides, he is capable to overcome sharp and chronic prostatitis and also a prostate giperplaziya.
Important! Chestnut honey has property to remain long time in a nekristallizirovanny state therefore, during purchase, pay attention only to liquid products.
Practically at each man the potency decreases with age. There is it because of frequent stresses, a sleep debt, the increased physical activities on an organism. To cope with this problem, national doctors recommend to use chestnut honey. It promotes decrease in level of a stress, improvement of quality of spermatozoa. By the way, young men at whom it is impossible to conceive the child have to adopt the last property.
Learn what vitamins are necessary for maintenance of male health, especially when planning pregnancy.
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The sweet from chestnut color is an irreplaceable source of antioxidants which are very useful to women. At its structure there is a mass of the useful and irreplaceable substances promoting skin rejuvenation, weight loss and establishing processes in female genitals. On the basis of such sweet it is possible to prepare various cream and srubs which will help to overcome cellulitis and other problems with skin. Chestnut honey during pregnancy when the female body demands a set of various vitamins and macro / minerals is very useful. Not to buy in drugstores it is a lot of jars with various components, rather daily to eat several tea spoons of chestnut honey, and health to the woman and her child it will be guaranteed.
Read also about advantage of vitamins for pregnant women and also the vitamins necessary for beauty of hair (A, E), nails, skin (And, E).
How to choose a quality and natural product upon purchase
Unfortunately, today in the market and in various supermarkets it is possible to encounter a fake of this natural product quite often. Unfair sellers can give, for example, field honey for chestnut. For this purpose it is only required to change color of a product and to add a few fragrances and also to strike a product to heat treatment that it did not become too dense. It is not so difficult to make a light product brown, it is only necessary to add to it a little fried thoroughly sugar and all — "it's in the bag". Not to get on tricks of sellers, study rules of the choice:
- Delicacy from chestnut color gathers seldom and in small amounts therefore the prices of it slightly bite. For a one-liter jar of a quality product the seller can demand from 15 to 20 dollars.
- If structure of a product non-uniform (characteristic stratifications are accurately looked through), then, most likely, you deal with a fake. Natural delicacy has accurately expressed uniform structure. That to check it, take the following advice: pour out honey from a one-liter jar and weigh it: scales have to show accurately 0.8 kg, any deviations will indicate that the product is diluted with water, sugar, fragrances, etc.
- In natural chestnut honey parts of pollen and wax are always looked through. You should look narrowly attentively and if you find ideally clean product, then be sure that you deal with low-quality bee sweet.
- During purchase surely you ask from the seller to try a little bit him products. The real product from chestnut color viscous, tart also has characteristic slightly bitter taste.
Whether you know? All know of "honey" month of newlyweds, but very few people know that this term was applied for the first time in the territory of Norway. Northerners considered that newlyweds in the first month after the wedding have to eat honey and drink drinks from it.
Also it would be desirable to notice that it is the best of all to buy such delicacy at fairs or on apiaries. In supermarkets you will deal with the product diluted with preservatives and dyes. Besides, on counters of shops it is hardly possible to see sweet under the name "Chestnut Honey".
How to store in house conditions
Much know that the natural product of beekeeping is stored throughout a long time. All this thanks to the fact that it contains a large number of sugars. It should be noted that at the wrong storage it will remain same fragrant and nice to the taste, but can lose many of the useful substances.
That it did not occur, it is necessary to follow the rules of storage:
- do not subject honey from chestnut color to heat treatment on the gas stove or in the microwave oven;
- you do not store it in cold or too warm place. Remember that on it direct sunshine should not get;
- in the place for storage the humidity of air has to be raised;
- temperature condition of storage has to make from +5 to +20 °C;
- honey has to contain in the ceramic or darkened glassware.
Learn more about useful properties and methods of application of bee products: propolis, honey with propolis, dyagilevy honey, white honey, a bee subpestilence, bee sting.
How to use in the medical purposes
Many beekeepers know that properties of bee delicacy depend on properties of plants melliferous herbs. Scientists believe that they are the most useful buckwheat, May, and, of course, chestnut types of honey. If to speak about the last look, then here and to argue there is nothing, it, certainly, unique and unique.
At gastritis
At gastritis it is possible to prepare unique remedy which will help to overcome this unpleasant illness. For this purpose the following ingredients will be required: plantain, toadflax and mint (5 tablespoons) and also hop cones, calendula, immortelle (3 tablespoons). All listed herbs need to be crushed and mixed. Then to fill in 2 tablespoons of mix with two glasses of boiled water and to allow to infuse. In 4-5 hours to add 2-3 teaspoons of honey to tincture and to mix everything before full dissolution.
Such means needs to be accepted three times a day for three weeks. To accept 100 ml before a breakfast, a lunch and a dinner.
At a disease of kidneys
To return normal function of kidneys, it is necessary to prepare such means: 2 tablespoons of the crushed grass of a stachys medicinal to fill in 200 ml of boiled water and to insist on an extent of 2-3 hours; then to add a dessertspoon of bee delicacy and to mix properly. It is necessary to take such national medicine 2-4 times a day on 30 ml in 20-30 minutes prior to meal.
Important! Diabetics are forbidden to use beekeeping products without preliminary consultation with the doctor.
One more recipe of traditional medicine: from stalks and leaves of a stachys medicinal (1 tsp) needs to wash down juice with tea from a cowberry grass to which chestnut honey to taste is previously added.
At an urolithic disease
To escape from manifestation of an urolithic disease, buy or collect the following ingredients: wild strawberry leaves, barberry and leaves of a birch. Crush all ingredients, then pour out a half of a glass and fill in with boiled water liter. It is necessary to fill in late evening in a thermos, and then to insist till the morning. To drink every day 200 ml of tincture with addition of chestnut honey (divide 200 ml into 3-4 times).
For improvement of potency
One of the most popular recipes of traditional medicine for improvement of potency: we take milk, walnuts and honey; it is necessary to crush nuts (10 pieces), to fill in with a glass of boiled water and to insist on an extent of 3-4 hours; tincture to filter, add honey and milk, then to mix properly. Such means, besides good medicinal properties, very tasty and fragrant. It is necessary to accept it on 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day for 3-4 weeks.
There is one more effective recipe for improvement of potency: we mix 500 g of the peeled walnuts, 100 g of juice of an aloe and 300 g of chestnut honey. It is necessary to add 50 g of the crushed parsnip roots to the received gruel. To accept 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.
At cuts and grazes
For fast healing of cuts, burns and other skin wounds it is possible to prepare ointment on the basis of honey: 10% calendula ointment, spermaceti and honey from chestnut color undertake in equal quantities and mix up. The received means is put to the cool place for several days that the consistence became more dense. It is applied on the damaged sites of skin. Besides, such ointment can be applied before extensive plastic surgeries on integuments.
How to use in the cosmetology purposes
Thanks to the antioxidant properties, this product of beekeeping is widely used in the cosmetology purposes.
Sesame, pomegranate, hawthorn, kino, pomelo possess antioxidant action.
For face skin
For problem sites on face skin it is possible to prepare a natural mask. It is necessary to crush 3 tablets of acetilsalicylic acid in powder and to add to it several drops of purified water. The received mix to stir, add 1 tsp of chestnut honey and to put on a face. The mask has to be on skin from 20 to 30 minutes. After the procedure it is washed away under cool flowing water. It is important to understand that such mask can dry skin if to leave it for a long time. Experts recommend to use pharmaceutical nutritious cream after the procedure.
Such masks are recommended to be done to not thicket of two times a week. Duration of a course is one and a half months, then for 4 weeks of a mask it is not desirable to put (during this period skin has to be recovered). Remember that the efficiency of such mask will depend on quality of a product of beekeeping. Buy only natural honey and only from the checked sellers.
Whether you know? When archeologists carried out excavation of a tomb of Tutankhamun, found an amphora with honey. Scientists were surprised after investigated properties of that honey. For many millennia it practically did not lose the useful properties.
For hair
If you are tormented by constant problems with the section of tips of hair, then prepare such mask: 2 tablespoons of natural burdock oil, 1 tablespoon of a product of beekeeping and one yolk which is hard-boiled. All components carefully to mix and apply on tips of hair. To cover hair with polyethylene, and then a towel. To hold a mask 30-40 minutes, then to wash the head by means of favourite shampoo.
Study recipes of masks for appearance of the person and a hair.
Contraindications and harm
There are three main categories of people to which consumption of chestnut honey is contraindicated:
- patients with diabetes;
- allergic persons;
- people who have individual intolerance an organism of products of beekeeping.
In all other cases honey is capable to bring huge benefit for health. But it is necessary to understand that it is necessary to use similar delicacy moderately. Chestnut honey is capable to accelerate metabolism processes, because of it it promotes weight loss process, but only when the person leads active lifestyle. If your organism is not able to react normally to receipt of honey, it is better to consult with the doctor about expediency of his use.
Important! At a temperature of +50 °C and more products of beekeeping almost completely lose all the useful qualities.
Now you know what is chestnut honey and what benefit it brings to a human body. Adhere to our recommendations, are treated only by natural medicines and God bless you!