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Many people wonder how one type of honey can be a laxative and at the same time a fixative. In reality, it all depends on the cooking method. There will be 5 laxative recipes and 3 strengthening ones.
One tablespoon of honey taken on an empty stomach with warm water can cause a laxative effect. If the dosage is reduced, the effect will be the opposite. For children, the countdown starts with a teaspoon, but in each case one thing can be said: honey strengthens or weakens, depending on the dosage. Most recipes, however, rely only on the laxative effect. And the most laxative variety is sweet clover honey, although linden honey is not far behind it.
Properties depend on recipe
If honey is taken mixed with warm water, the production of gastric juice should decrease. Cold honey will have the opposite effect - the acidity will increase. Therefore, for gastritis with high acidity, you can only take warm mixtures with honey. And some recipes do not provide for this.
Dried fruit mixture
Let's say honey is the base of the mixture. If it cannot be added to tea, then increased stomach acidity will be a clear contraindication.
Anyone with high blood pressure should take honey before meals. And for hypotension, the medicine is taken after a meal, and then you need to not drink anything for 20-30 minutes. It turns out that the properties depend on the method and time of administration.
The effect of reducing pressure will be weak. A well-known bee product that causes a strong decrease in blood pressure is bee bread, that is, compressed pollen.
As for blood clotting, honey can reduce it. In the first place here there will be two varieties - sweet clover and fireweed. Next comes clover honey, as well as other light varieties. Honey from linden nectar also applies to them.
Linden variety
The lighter the bee product, the more coumarin it contains, a blood thinning substance. One such product is royal or drone jelly, but honey does not contain it.
Demonstrative experiment: add any kind of honey to a glass of warm water, but not sweet clover. The result depends on the amount of honey:
- 1 tbsp. – the mixture acts as a laxative on an adult;
- 1/2 tbsp. – a fixative for adults and a laxative for children;
- 1/2 tsp. – a fixative for children.
By the way, honey is contraindicated for all children under three years of age. The cause is diathesis.
A little secret: the honey mixture should be taken on an empty stomach. And yet, honey is not capable of causing negative consequences even if the dosage is greatly exceeded.
Pros and cons of honey in treating constipation
The benefits of honey treatment include:
- the feeling of heaviness disappears;
- the body is cleansed of toxins;
- the immune system is strengthened.
Treatment with honey stabilizes the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract.
But this miracle remedy also has disadvantages:
- Admission deadline. The course of treatment is quite long - about a week.
- The need to stay at home. It is impossible to say exactly at what point the medicine will take effect in such a way that you will have to drop everything and rush to the toilet.
Healthy recipes
Flatulence is a disease whose symptoms are familiar to many. Symptoms include stomach rumbling and bloating, all of which are involuntary. The standard medical approach goes like this: if there is a disease, you need to look for a cure. This approach does not work for flatulence. However, one of the reasons is increased gas formation, and it can already be combated.
Cumin will help
Taking 1-2 tablespoons of cumin, pour a glass of boiling water over them. The mixture is kept in a water bath at T = 99° C, and after 15 minutes removed from the heat.
Preparing medicine with cumin
When the infusion has cooled to 50° C, filter it and add a tablespoon of honey. Store the medicine in the refrigerator and take it warm.
Dosage schedule: 4 times a day, 30 minutes before meals. Dosage - 20–40 ml, no more.
With wormwood
Just as with caraway seeds, make an infusion of dried wormwood. To 1 tbsp. Add a glass of boiling water to add wormwood. Then the mixture is infused for 20 minutes under the lid and filtered. Honey is added to the infusion, which has cooled to 50° C, and the medicine is heated before each dose.
The reception schedule was indicated above. The dosage is 60-80 ml.
Honey itself will be a useful medicine:
- Every morning prepare “chatterbox” - 1 tsp. honey per glass of warm water;
- The mixture will need to be drunk 30 minutes before breakfast.
The most unsuitable variety is sweet clover. It is believed that there is no need to stimulate the intestines. Otherwise, gas formation will increase, and this contributes to the further development of flatulence. For children, the dosage is reduced by 1.5 or 2 times.
Diet
For some, replacing sugar with honey helps, for others, they should not eat flour. And sometimes, on the contrary, honey should not be eaten at all, otherwise the unpleasant symptoms will intensify. In general, the diet for flatulence will be strictly individual.
Products containing fiber
When creating a diet, the “trial and error” method is used.
First of all, you need to exclude foods with fiber. Next on the list is what stimulates the intestines.
Food should be taken at the same time. And you will also have to give up chewing gum.
The benefits of honey
It contains vitamins, glucose, and a large amount of minerals in an optimal ratio, which greatly simplifies the absorption of the product by the human body.
Is honey good for the stomach? Of course yes. He helps:
- stop the inflammatory process,
- treats dysbiosis;
- thins mucus
- has a bactericidal effect,
- normalizes digestion,
- relieves constipation;
- relieves spasms and flatulence,
- removes toxins from the body,
- heals tissues
- expels helminths,
- improves intestinal motility,
- normalizes sleep and calms nerves,
- increases immunity, mood, and hemoglobin.
One common mistake
Hemorrhoids are a disease that is not as common as flatulence. However, its treatment requires a systematic approach. For example, you should not allow diarrhea, but you should strive to keep your stool loose.
Bee product from sweet clover nectar
Honey is often used for these purposes; two varieties are suitable as a laxative. But linden honey, and especially sweet clover honey, should be excluded immediately: they thin the blood, which will be very harmful for hemorrhoids!
The effect caused by rare varieties is difficult to predict. Therefore, it is better not to use anything exotic, such as sweet clover honey or fireweed honey. It may be recalled that all light varieties thin the blood. The chestnut variety also has this property. By the way, horse chestnut honey will be useful.
You can make baths:
- Add 3 tbsp to 5-6 liters of warm boiled water. chestnut honey (horse chestnut);
- You can add 1-2 tsp. sea salt;
- The procedure is carried out until the water cools to 34-35° C.
Microenemas will help get rid of internal nodules and bumps. For an enema with honey you need the same bee product as for the baths. Recipe: 50 ml water, 1 tbsp. honey
The variety, which belongs to the edible chestnut, is elite and is not suitable for external use.
How does honey work for constipation?
Reaching the intestines, the bee product gently envelops its walls and helps feces move through, eliminating difficulty with defecation.
Honey neutralizes toxic substances that enter the body due to the retention of feces for a long time, eliminates dizziness, weakness, restores appetite and gives vigor. Taking honey medicine helps to normalize the water balance, as a result, the stool liquefies and leaves the body without causing discomfort.
It should be remembered that the honey solution does not give an immediate effect. Like many traditional medicines, it requires systematic use and has a very gentle effect on the body. The treatment period ranges from 5 to 7 days.
Laxative
Add 1 tbsp to a glass of warm milk. liquid or candied honey. The medicine is drunk 3 times a day before meals, and chilled.
Formula milk
A contraindication would be increased acidity, and the dosage is 1/3 cup. This remedy is a mild laxative. The recommended variety is linden.
There are other recipes:
- 20 gr. Young black elderberry leaves should be poured with a glass of boiling water, left for 20 minutes, strained and added 1 tbsp. honey Drink 1/4 glass after meals.
- Make “honey mash” with apple juice 3-4 times a day.
The first remedy, if honey is not added, will be a cure for hemorrhoids. But for hemorrhoids, the full recipe is not contraindicated! You can even use a linden variety - there will be no harm.
The word “harm” here means blood thinning.
When honey is candied, it may have a stronger laxative effect. But this cannot be verified: laxative recipes use “warm mixtures,” and after heating, the candied product becomes “liquid,” as if pumped. Recipe:
- Castor oil (1 tbsp) is mixed with the yolk of a chicken egg;
- Add 1 tbsp to 2/3 cup of warm water. honey (candied);
- Components "1" and "2" are mixed.
You need to take the mixture 1 tbsp. every two hours.
The temperature of the “base” when preparing any honey mixtures should be 45-50° C. It should not be greatly exceeded!
Nuances of use
- Under no circumstances should you exceed the maximum permissible dosage per day, i.e. no more than two tbsp. l.
- The product should be consumed on an empty stomach in the morning or in the evening 30 minutes before bedtime. Honey will improve the quality of sleep.
- You should not heat honey to high temperatures for a long time. Its structure disintegrates and honey loses its beneficial qualities.
- Honey must be taken separately from meals, because otherwise, you may simply gain weight without benefiting your body.
- You need to enjoy the taste. Honey is an unusual product. It must be kept in the mouth for a longer time, and not immediately swallowed or dissolved.
Strengthens or weakens?
Fresh kefir always weakens, but three-day-old kefir strengthens. The same applies to blueberries.
Fresh blueberries
When fresh, these berries are a laxative, but if they are dried, the opposite will happen. Banana pulp, as well as grated carrots mixed with an apple, also have a strong fixing effect. And the most powerful laxative is aloe juice mixed with honey in a 5 to 1 ratio.
It is not recommended to use a recipe with aloe: it has too many contraindications.
Sugar is always added to blueberries, which itself has a fixing effect. Well, dried berries have a stronger effect than activated carbon. As for honey, a bold experiment was carried out: a child aged 1 year was fed a mixture of 300 ml of boiled water and 1 tsp. honey And there was no diarrhea! This means that the properties depend on the cooking recipe.
In fact, honey is contraindicated for children under three years of age. The reason is diathesis.
Different foods not only weaken or strengthen the stool, but also regulate it: with diarrhea, the effect will be strengthening, and vice versa. The "regulating effect" is said to be characteristic of a warm mixture of milk and honey.
There will be many nuances: for example, pear acts as a laxative on some people, and vice versa on others. The conclusion is obvious: you need to use the trial and error method.
Contraindications
For honey of all varieties, an important contraindication is hay fever, that is, an allergy to pollen.
Pollen in various bee products
Cold honey mixtures should not be taken for gastritis with high acidity. In general, there will be several contraindications:
- Cholecystitis and colitis prevent the use of the method, where you need to eat 1 tablespoon at a time. honey (mixed with water);
- If there are blood clots, do not use those varieties that thin the blood;
- Two standard contraindications are the third trimester of pregnancy and age under three years.
The prohibition associated with pregnancy appeared for one reason: the effect provoked by the ingestion of any bee products is a decrease in clotting. This is what official medicine thinks.
The recipe with apple juice uses not a tablespoon, but a dessert spoon of bee product. This recipe is suitable for the treatment of colitis, and the juice should be drunk chilled.
What did they come up with in the USA?
In America they know how to prepare laxatives. Moreover, clover honey is used - its properties are between the linden and sweet clover varieties. The recipe can be called extreme:
- To a glass of warm water or tea add the juice of half a lemon, as well as 3 tbsp. bee product;
- The entire mixture is drunk on an empty stomach before breakfast;
- You need to take the medicine every day, and the course duration is a week.
Maybe for the first 2-3 days the dosage should be three spoons, but then it is reduced to one...
The method indicated above is used only at your own peril and risk.
Plantain in English is called plantain. And they use it as a fixing agent.
Plantain leaves and stem
You will need fresh juice squeezed from the leaves:
- Honey is heated in a water bath to 45-50° C;
- Mix the juice to create a 50/50 ratio (by weight);
- Store the finished mixture in the refrigerator and add it to warm water (1 tablespoon each).
Take the medicine before meals 2 or 3 times a day. The method helps with flatulence, diarrhea, and intestinal colic.
In Russia, plantain seeds are considered a mild laxative. And in America, banana pulp is considered a laxative.
