Honey from time immemorial interested people and surprised with the nutritious and medicinal properties.
Beekeeping products are also now used in many spheres of life: in medicine, cosmetology, the industry. In this article we will talk about forest honey and its qualities.
As looks and what differs from other grades of honey in
- Origin (flowers): bird cherry, dyagil, willow, clover, forest raspberry, maple, mountain ash, wild strawberry, linden, hawthorn, camomile, bilberry, wild fruit-trees.
- Color: golden, yellow, dark amber.
- Taste: tart and sweet with it is characteristic slightly bitter taste, has long aftertaste.
- Aroma: flower, terpkovaty.
- Period of collecting: since spring prior to the beginning of fall.
- Crystallization time: long, up to six months.
From other grades it is distinguished by the long term of crystallization, more saturated chemical composition, bigger quantity fall, smaller amount of sugars, bigger quantity of by-products: milk, perga, propolis.
Whether you know? In ancient times honey was used as preservative (in barrels with it transported perishable products), applied even to mummification of bodies. It is known that Alexander the Great's body was transported in honey preservative.
What contains in structure
- Vitamins: A, B1, B2, PP, B6, N, B9, C, E, K.
- Macrocells: sodium, magnesium, calcium, potassium, phosphorus.
- Minerals: iodine, manganese, selenium, cobalt, aluminum.
- Organic and amino acids.
- Antioxidants: tannins.
- Essential oils.
- Tannins.
- Saponins: glycosides, alkaloids.
- Phytoncides.
Than forest honey is useful
Forest nectar is famous for such properties:
- antibacterial;
- antioxidant;
- anti-inflammatory;
- soothing;
- wound healing;
- soothing;
- toning.
At the regular use the product has such influence on an organism:
- normalizes hemoglobin level in blood;
- promotes pressure decline;
- improves blood circulation;
- strengthens protective functions;
- destroys pathogenic microorganisms;
- removes painful symptoms and inflammatory processes;
- normalizes a dream;
- strengthens nervous and cardiovascular system.
Learn what vitamins are necessary for full work of nervous and cardiovascular systems.
How to distinguish the real honey from a fake upon purchase
Such signs will help to distinguish natural nectar from a fake:
- the natural product is plastic, having gathered it in a spoon, it can be turned several times around and the product will obediently wrap up it;
- slightly bitter taste and slight irritation in a throat after tasting;
- aroma: at a forest product there are both flower, and fruit notes, aroma saturated and resistant.
It is important! Not to make the wrong choice, it is better to buy beekeeping products directly from the producer. The beekeeper valuing the reputation will not trade in a fake and surely has a honey card.
How to store in house conditions
Nectar of forest origin needs to be stored in the dark place — on light it quickly loses curative properties. The place of storage has to be dry — if the product absorbs moisture, then will quickly turn sour. Capacity for storage has to be closed densely that honey did not absorb foreign smells.
Application
Being a many-sided product, honey (and its components) it is applied in many spheres of activity.
In traditional medicine
Honey is applied both as treatment and in the preventive purposes at the following diseases:
- cold, sharp respiratory and viral infections;
- diseases of the lower and upper airways;
- digestion problems;
- insomnia;
- hypovitaminosis and anemia;
- the weakened immunity;
- diseases of a thyroid gland;
- nervous breakdowns.
In cosmetology
Known properties of honey face packs:
- tightening;
- feeding;
- anti-inflammatory;
- cleaning.
In industrial cosmetics the products of beekeeping are ingredients in creams, masks, a milk, srubs, hair care products; in pharmacology — in means against fungal diseases of skin, dandruff, seborrhea.
Whether you know? Wild bees are much more hardworking, than their house relatives, the swarm is capable to collect 10 kg of nectar per day. Such working capacity is caused by a survival instinct in more difficult conditions.
Honey is used for softening of skin at massage sessions, when wrappings for fight against cellulitis, for treatment of the suppurating wounds.
Honey masks apply to improvement and strengthening of hair, after damage by coloring or a chemical wave, split ends treat and strengthen a hair bulb.
Contraindications and harm
Honey, in principle, is contraindicated to diabetics, but as in forest nectar the amount of sugars are lower, than in other grades, it is possible to consult with the doctor and at an easy form of a disease to use in small amounts.
Important! At obesity also you should not abuse sweet, caloric content is 303 kcal / 100 grams.
Allergic persons should refrain from the use, considering variety of plants which pollen is present at a product. For the same reason pregnant women and the nursing women need to show care, it is not necessary to give honey to children up to three years.
Other types of honey
There is a lot of types of honey products, they differ in the term of collecting, color, a period of storage, but each of them is in own way useful.
Read also about types of honey: akatsiyevy, flower, sunflower, chestnut, lime, dyagilevy.
Mountain
Nectar gathers in eco-friendly districts of the foothills, on slopes and at foot the Product of usually straw or light brown shade, with flower aroma. Mountain nectar is used generally for treatment of respiratory organs, probably, it is caused by purity of air in places of collecting pollen. It has the bright antibacterial and immunostimulating effect, it is useful at dizzinesses, insomnia, nervous breakdowns.
Lugovoi
Poliflerny collecting from raznotravya: thyme, sage, dandelion and other officinal herbs. It is a dense, light brown, sweet and fragrant product, tastes like buckwheat. Nectar during the summer period, gathers on meadows, fields and pastures. It is applied to treatment of skin diseases, to strengthening of immunity, at neurologic problems, in house cosmetics.
Learn more about curative properties of meadow honey.
May
May — time of blossoming of the majority of melliferous herbs: acacias, lily of the valley, bird cherry, many fruit bushes and trees. Color at the honey picked from them usually light, a product has property to be stored long. It is applied at the cold, sharp respiratory diseases which are followed by high temperature; for treatment of skin diseases and open wounds, burns and ulcers. In house cosmetics it is used for hair care. Bee products at the regular use load an organism with necessary vitamins and minerals, nutrients and energy, increase working capacity and protective properties of an organism. To lose weight if desired, it is possible to replace with honey sugar, but at the same time it is necessary to remember what is it is necessary in small amounts.