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Who doesn't know honey? the sweet liquid produced by bees, but do you know what the benefits of honey is? actually honey is a blessing remedy from Allaah for mankind. In honey there are many benefits that human can use. Honey is used as a remedy and a natural vitamin thousands year ago since ancient egyptian era. They used honey as a medicine, beautification, curing wounds even for embalming the mummies.
Honey is the essence of flowers (nectar) collected by bees. It is food that contains various nutricious element, such as carbohidrate, protein, amino acid, vitamin, dextrin, crops pigmen and aromatics component. the main nutricious element in honey are various carbohidrate like fructose sugar(41,0 %), glucose(35%), sucrose(1.9%) and dextrin (1.5%) (Intisari mgzn,pg 20, 2002).
One uniqueness of honey is it contains of antibiotics substances, based on the research done by Peter C. Molan (1992) University of Waikoto. New Zealand. Honey contains of antibiotics element that actives against various germ of patogen which can cause the diseases. Some infection diseases can be cured or hampered by drinking honey regularly, such as; peptic ulcer, dermatitis, lungs disease, cough and fever. liver, kidney disease and sprue.
The research done by Kamaruddin (1997) from University Of Malaya. At least There are four factors that related to antibacterrial activities. Firstly, High subtances of sugar in honey make difficuties for bactery to grow and develop. Secondly, high acidic degree (ph 3,65) will lessen the life of bactery. Thirdly, The existance of radical hidrogen peroxide compoud can kill patogen microorganism. Fourthly; The organic in honey which has antibacterial characteristic.
Honey can be consumed by all level of ages from infant to older people. As a natural multivitamin, honey has benefits for;
- Hoping mother : It helps to keep stamina and health during the pregnancy and the fetus.
- Children : It can increase the appetite (honey contains of vitamin B completely)
- Adult : It can be consumed as a supplemen for the employees who work hard in long shift, in this case honey can change the lost of energy.
Honey can also be used as a natural aphrodisiac. To make it more effective, honey should be mixed with egg yolk, this formula can change the sperm and also as an energy source to have a sexual intercouse.
Honey can help to cure disease. Some diseases can be cured like, stomacache peptic ulcer, hepatitis, thypoid, dysentri, fever, liver, kidney disease, insomnia, anemia and sprue.
If we use honey for beautifullness, it can tighten the skin and make it smooth. In conclusion there are so many benefits of honey we can get. Indeed it is the blessing from Allah to mankind. At last why don't you try to consume honey ?
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