Honey Properties
Honey has plenty of properties, such therapeutic as nutritional ones. The most significant are the following:
Is easily asimilated because it has carbon hydrates of short chains. It makes easier the digestion and metabolization of other foods: for example, in cases of children it makes easier the metabolization of calcium and magnesium.
It has more sweetener power than sugar, 40% of less calories at same amounts. It improves food conservation.
It is a soft laxative (regularizes intestinal functioning).
It has sedative properties (it favors the absorption of triptophanus which is the precursor of the serotonine).
It is antihemorrhagycal, antianemic, antiseptic, antitoxic, emolient and feverfugic.
It improves physical performance, specially, sportspeople´s.
It stimulates sexual vigor.
It is used on the pharynxitis, laryngitis, rinitis, flues, minor depressive states, ulcers, gastritis, burn treatment, between others.
It is used for treating those people who suffer astenia or tiredness states, both physical and psychic cases. It is also very useful for alcoholic detoxification.
It stimulates red globules production because of the presence of folic acid.
It stimulates antibodies production because of the scorbic acid, magnesium, copper and zinc.