5 Reasons Honey Should Be in Your Medicine Chest

September 5th, 2022

By Sayer Ji

Contributing writer for Wake Up World

Honey is a healing wonder of nature, its use dating back thousands of years. Not only is honey depicted in Stone Age paintings, but it’s referenced as a drug and ointment on a Sumerian writing tablet from 2100 to 2000 BC. Aristotle also referred to honey as a useful salve for sore eyes and wounds circa 384-322 BC.[ii]

There’s a reason why honey was prized for both nutrition and medicine in ancient times, and even with all the advances of modern medicine, it’s still worthy of a prominent position in your medicine chest.

Given its commonality and tendency to be regarded as primarily a sweetener for tea or biscuits, it’s easy to overlook the complexity of this sticky substance. But honey is known to contain hundreds of compounds,[iii] each with its own potential role to play in your health.

What Exactly Is Honey?

Honey starts with nectar, a sweet liquid made by plants. Honey bees visit flowers and drink the nectar, which is made up of about 80% water, via their proboscis, a special straw-like tongue.

The nectar is carried in their “honey stomach” and mixed with the enzyme invertase, produced in bees’ salivary glands (bees can carry a load of nectar close to their own bodyweight — an aeronautical feat!).[iv] This catalyzes the process of changing the sucrose found in nectar into the glucose and fructose found in honey.[v]

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