The Truth of Honey as an Allergy Drug | How Much Honey for Allergy Relief
HONEY BENEFITS - Can Honey Treat Allergies? Is that true? This question is very often asked for people who first heard or heard about it. But for honey and bee fans, they will certainly justify this because they have benefited from eating honey and bee products (pollen, propolis, royal jelly).
Consumption of raw honey that still contains pollen in the season before the flowers bloom will prevent or weaken the symptoms of fever due to air allergies (sneezing) at the time of change or change of seasons. Here we will try to help explain this.
Summer is happiness almost for all beings. In the bright season, many of us feel a new energy explosion to start a more upbeat activity than the previous season, likewise for some animals. Although not all of us feel this, because there are some people who are allergic when there is a change of seasons.
Flowers can be something beautiful for most people, but it can also be something that is harmful to some people. And this real nightmare can lead to such disturbances; swollen eyes, runny nose, sore throat, and also sneezing. This allergy is common for some people in the summer and makes them distracted and unhappy.
In June 2012, dailymail.co.uk, published an article about what really can allergies. In it, a homeopathic physician and also a patient recommends treatment for allergies to millions of people every summer. They offer a range of drugs: antihistamines, decongestants and anti-inflammatory, which include: air filters, eye drops and nasal drops, acupuncture, antihistamines, homeopathy and honey.
But, do not expect people to agree on all these drugs. After so much time for allergy therapy, there are still medical officers convinced that homeopathy is a placebo and only works if you believe the drug will help you.
There are also medical immunization therapies but for this therapy cost is quite expensive, can reach £ 100 per month. What if you buy for 3 years in a row for this therapy? Besides, for allergy therapy immunization therapy you also need a doctor's prescription. These tablets are eaten every day and should start 2 months before summer.
With the tablet's consumption the patient becomes insensitive and gradually allergy symptoms are reduced. And it turns out that the tablet has polllen content that is none other than bee products as well. Then came the idea, if so why not use raw honey that none other also contains pollen even tastes better and the cost are also much cheaper?
Already many people heard about the news of allergy therapy with natural honey that contains this pollen. Not a few who do not believe, but there are also who believe it. However, people with severe allergies try it by consuming honey bee pollen regularly and then the condition gets better gradually.
This real condition is increasingly popularizing the benefits of honey as an allergy therapy due to the turn of the season. And this news has also made some honey bee farmers more active informing the benefits of raw honey.
Honey therapy does not work for allergy healing? This report provides evidence that daily consumption during the winter of 10-20 g of honey (1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon) resulted in improved fever-allergy symptoms in 16 of 21 patients. (The study is described in "Honey and fever: report on treatment of fever with honey", by L. Croft in 1990)
Munstedt and Kalder reported positive effects of honey consumption by means of questionnaires filled by 29 beekeepers. ("Honey as a treatment for rhinoconjunctivitis: by Munstedt and kalder, JAAS 2, in 2010)
According to Lynne Chepulis, Ph.D., researcher and author of the book 'Healing Honey', with mongonsumsi honey with a daily dose, a tablespoon, is believed to stimulate the body's immune. That's automatic, keeping you out of allergies.
"This honey from pollen can stimulate the immune system and can reduce allergies," says allergist and immunologist Miguel P. Wolbert of Allergy & Asthma Care Center in Evansville, Indiana, USA.
1. The test was performed using bee pollen phenolic extract and myricetin flavonoids. Allergies are induced with mice, and the results show that treating them with 200 mg / kg bee pollen phenolic extract and 5 mg / kg myricetin flavonoids inhibited different allergic reactions. This suggests that myricetin flavonoid is one of the flavonoid bee pollen that is responsible for its anti-allergic effect and it is a potential tool for treating allergies. (The study was published in "Journal of Ethnopharmacology" No.119, in 2008, by Medeiros, Figueiredo,
Freire, Santos, Alcantara-Neves, Silva and Piuvezam).
2. In the study "Inhibitorry effect of honeybees - pollen collected on degranulation of in vivo and in vitro mast cells", published in the Journal of Medicinal Food in 2008, Japanese authors point out that bee pollen inhibits activation of mast cells, which play a central role in the pathogenesis of various allergic diseases.
3. Grass pollen has proven to be efficient for people suffering from grass pollen allergy and also following bee stings. In a study conducted on children allergic to subcutaneous treatments were the most efficient. But so does the tablet.
4. In 2008 another study "special immunotherapy for the general grass of pollen allergy: the precision of the grass pollen vaccine", has reported good results from clinical trials in which patients took the gramineae pollen vaccine against fever.
5. Vaccines based on pollen on birch are also successful.
6. In 2002, Khinchi et al reported "The future of bee pollen sublingually and subcutaneously".
7. Aqueous pollen extract has been successfully used against home-dust asthma (Wortmann, 1977).
8. Pollysat, the preparation of different bee pollen, is also used to reduce the symptoms of fever (Rimpler, 2003).
For allergies, reports say 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon (20 g) once daily during winter and spring. For other usage therapy: adult 50-80 g (up to 4 tablespoons) per day. Children 0.8 to 1.2 g per kg body weight.
The best results will begin to look at 1.5 to 2 months of honey consumption appropriately, correctly and incorporated. Given the high number of honey calories then, we suggest you to reduce the intake of other sweeteners. A normal intake of 20 to 25 grams (1 tablespoon) of honey per day will cause long-term health-enhancing effects.
See the Pollen consumption dose page for doses and possible side effects. If you have a severe allergic reaction, start with a very small quantity / consumption amount. And continue the treatment by increasing the number gradually. Then lower the chemical allergy-fever drug and increase the number of bee pollen.
Give your body time, do not hurry. Your body must adjust.
So little information honey therapy to treat allergies, especially airborne allergies (dust, weather) due to seasonal changes, although raw honey is also effective and can be used also to overcome skin allergies (itching due to fungi, bacteria and viruses).