Honey is the perfect food for bees, but the popular belief that sugar is also a natural and a healthy and nutritious food for humans does not correspond with reality, if we consider that the content of fatty that is secreted by bees to make it keep a product not recommended for our health.

The honey is obtained from the mixture of pollen ingested stomach bees with formic acid, Manica and others. After this mixture is deposited in the cells of wax and dehydrated by the movement of the wings of many bees.

Without the preservation process immediately Fermentario honey and they would not be useful as food for bees is only a food reserve that will allow them to survive through the winter until spring, good weather allowed back out to collect pollen .

Dehydration of honey and added acids inhibit the growth of bacteria, but this makes it a poison to the human digestive system. The composition of honey as food is totally deficient in minerals and vitamins we need many more nutrients than a bee.

Despite the attraction we feel for the sugars of honey, we must realize that acids containing preservatives that make a substance harmful to our health because we do not have the enzymes necessary for digestion and neutralization of these substances and our body is forced to protect itself, producing an antidote that will allow their assimilation, requiring a waste of energy and strength. vitally important.

Immediately after taking the honey begins moisture reabsorption of the stomach and intestinal flora causing the destruction of the microbial population that maintains a symbiotic relationship with its environment. In most cases it only takes a few spoonfuls of honey for people to sometimes feel quite mal.La honey descaling is acidifying and more than sugar cane and beet, forcing our body to use its own reserves of calcium, including teeth and bones if necessary to neutralize the acids introduced into the digestive system by eating honey.
Manic acid honey is a protoplasmic poison, which intergrowth with protein to form alcohol, ammonia and carbonic acid. From a nutritional point of view, honey is a food injurious to health. Usual consumption, together with other proteins such as starches and sweeteners, ferments quickly, especially when it remains in the stomach with other foods to slow digestion. The byproducts of alcohol, ammonia and carbonic acid are detrimental to health, but from any point of view, ethical or dietary, honey is a product suitable for human consumption.

This is a beautiful plant that is used as a remedy for a relatively short time, perhaps because being very cold climate, their strengths were not known until it was grown in medieval Europe.

It is an herb from a little over a meter tall that lives for two years. The leaves are shaped like those of parsley, but many older, nearly 50 cm. They fit the stem, hollow, enclosing; this straight, culminating in what is called an umbel: a common point numerous stalks arise at the end of which appear a few jars of tiny florets. From its roots, robust, emits a milky juice when cut.

The whole plant, i.e. root, stem, leaf and fruit essence and a substance containing (among many others) called angelic acid.

Medicinal properties

It has been used to combat the plague, and although it has diuretic and expectorant properties, is used almost exclusively to promote digestion by stimulating action of gastric juices.

In practice the root is used, the fruits and leaves: the fruit is picked ripe (umbels are cut with their tails) during the summer of sophomore year. However, the following must be started before blooming, so it will not serve the same plant for root and fruit. The leaves can be cut as they grow enough, though how early summer.

Uses & Applications

We said that the angelic aids digestion. Indeed, both the root and the leaves and fruits are used as a stomach. It is taken by infusion, prepared from the root, cut into small pieces, or sheets, also chopped, or off: put water to boil (one quart) and when it starts to boil bursts a teaspoonful of root or leaves (or both at once), turn off the heat, cover the container and wait about five or ten minutes. It should be hot after meals.

It is part of many drinks known as “stomach” that are sold in shops. One way to prepare a drink craft such would be: placed in a glass-mouthed a couple of teaspoons of angelica root (the root best fruits), leaves of mint and chamomile and a few grains of aniseed. Fill the container up to one liter of 96 degrees alcohol beverage special (not the pharmacy) and stand for one “Novena (nine days) in a cool place. Filter and add about two quarts of syrup (sugar dissolved in water in equal amounts). Allow to macerate again, now for a month at least. The longer is the better taste. Filter before taking it. The leaves can be eaten boiled, like vegetables.

For bitter and digestive properties, infusion of angelica is used to relieve upset stomach.