Honey is basically a yellowish-white viscous liquid made by natural fermentation of nectar collected by bees. Honey is considered to be the most perfect nutritional food in nature, and the ancient Greeks regarded it as a gift from heaven. In China, beekeeping has been practiced since ancient times. Honey is both a good medicine and a superior beverage that can prolong life and be used as a health product for beauty. The miraculous story of honey In the Tang Dynasty, there was a widely circulated story that Princess Yongle, the daughter of Emperor Xuanzong Li Longji, had a dried-up face and unproductive skin, and then took refuge in Shaanxi due to war. Later people found that tung blossom honey can make “the old back to the young, the young increase the beauty”, with the marrow and benefit the essence, bright eyes and happy face function. Honey and literati anecdotes The great writer Su Dongpo is a gourmet, he tastes honey, every day to eat on five boxes; ginger honey soup to drink a few bowls, said it “sweet aromatic smooth spicy, make people fast and clear.” He also mentioned the nourishing rock honey in a poem: “I want to bump into the river chapter from the Ruyin, and I want to see the stone honey and the yi sugar under the ice.” Su Dongpo, who was a skilled doctor, enjoyed honey, not only for the sake of his mouth and its delicious taste, but also to nourish his body and prolong his life. Su Dongpo also has a poem “Anzhou old man eating honey song” said: “do not eat grains but eat honey” line, it can be seen that Su’s honey to push the sneaky. The Southern Song poet Lu You, in his “Notes on the Old School”, also recorded an anecdote about Su Dongpo’s taste for honey: “One day, with several guests over the, are impregnated with honey to eat, each more can not be down to the book. Only Dongpo is also addicted to honey, can be full with it.” In just a few words, Su Dongpo’s fondness for honey is described to the fullest. The source of honey is a sugar substance made in the hive by the Chinese honey bee or the Italian honey bee. Origin: It is produced all over the country. Taste: Sweet, flat. Induces the spleen and lung and large intestine meridians. Effects: Tonifies the middle of the body, relieves cough, moistens the lungs, smooths the bowels and opens the bowels. Note: honey can help dampness, fullness, and can slide the intestines, so there is dampness and heat, phlegm stagnation, chest congestion and loose stool diarrhea is contraindicated. What is the best way to take honey? The role of honey is well documented in the “Compendium of Materia Medica”: it is used as a medicine for five purposes: clearing heat, tonic, detoxifying, moistening, and relieving pain. The honey is a very good choice for the purpose of the treatment. So the role of honey are: 1, spleen qi weakness and in the deficiency of the abdominal contracture pain This product has the effect of tonic in slowing down the pain. If the big aconite decoction, that is, the aconite decoction, into the product, concentrated in several servings, to treat cold hernia abdominal pain, hand and foot syncope. 2, lung deficiency cough and dry cough, dry throat This product can moisten the lung to stop cough, and has a tonic effect, can be used alone, but also can be used in a combination, such as Qiong Yu cream that this product with raw earth, poria, ginseng composition can be used to treat deficiency cough and coughing blood. In addition, the phlegm and cough medicine such as: the model of winter flowers, aster, BaiBu, loquat leaves and other drugs are used after honey roasting. 3, for intestinal dry constipation This product has laxative effect, and can be supplemented, so it is especially suitable for the body deficiency of fluid constipation, can be used alone 30 ~ 60g brewing, can also be used with angelica, black sesame and other blood nourishing laxative medicine. In addition, this product has detoxification effect. External sores, burns; internal consumption to detoxify the aconite, saprophytic poison. Do not use boiling water when taking honey, take it with warm water!