Surprising Top 6 uses of Honey
Honey is one of the most used ingredients in the cooking process of different dishes or treating a sore throat. It is one of the best offerings of nature that helps us to get better taste and relief from cough. Honey has been used for a very long time by cultures like Greeks, Egyptians, Chinese, Romans, and others as food and medicine. As honey contains around 80% of sugar, it is mostly used as a sweetener. However, there are many other uses of honey that you might not be aware of. Here are some of the surprising uses of honey given below.
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Memory - Honey is proved to be very useful for improving memory both long term and short term. At the time of menopausal and postmenopausal, tualang honey is given to women for some weeks to improve their memory that is affected by hormone therapies.
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Burns - In case of burns, honey can be very helpful to heal them and prevent any type of infection. According to reports, honey can also reduce the healing time of the burns. Compared to other burn treatments, honey helps to get less scarring, takes less time, and enhances the healing ability.
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Cancer - Honey has been studied for a long time to find out if it helps to treat cancer. It contains a lot of antioxidant properties that make it ideal for treating cancer. A study from Iran in 2011 shows that honey affects a type of cancer of the kidney that is known as renal cell carcinoma. It is effective in interrupting the cancer cells from multiplying and stopping them. Studies are still ongoing to use honey as a cancer treatment.
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Herpes - In the case of genital or oral herpes, honey can be as good as any ointments that are available in pharmacies. According to a research result of Dubai, honey reduces the itchiness of herpes and heals lesions faster than any ointment.
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Ulcers and wounds - For centuries, honey has been used as dressing the wounds. It works as well as any other compresses and gels. Honey can sterile the wounds, heal them faster, reduce the wound size, odor, and pain. In long term ulcers, antibiotic resistance bacteria, and surgery wounds, honey is also used. However, it depends very much on wounds like the type, size of wounds, and others. So, talk to a doctor before using honey as a dressing treatment.
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Diabetes - Although honey is made with 80% sugar, it contains a lower glycemic index compared to sugar. So, if you use honey instead of sugar, it wonโt spike the levels of blood sugars like sugar does. Honey also tastes sweeter than sugar that helps to get a better taste in foods. For diabetes patients, honey is a far better option than sugar to keep the level of blood sugar steady.
These are some of the most surprising uses of honey that is known very well by most people. Researchers are still researching the full potential of honey to use it for other purposes.
