Local Honey
April 15th, 2007It’s now officially day 5 since doing local honey for my allergies. I simply put about a teaspoon of it in my tea or coffee every morning and stir it up.
I don’t know what it was this year, but my allergies haven’t been this bad in two decades. I’ve been coughing and sneezing and driving my co-workers nuts. Before doing the honey, I used half a box of tissue in only one day.
So I went on anti-histimines. They work, but the side effect is everything tastes like English food. I could go on prescription drugs, but you’ve seen the commercials and their side effects. I’ve done local honey before and it’s worked, so I’m back to it.
Now on day 5, I still have to use a tissue about once every few hours. Within a few weeks, your body will be completely immune to the allergies if it works for you, as it has for me in the past. I picked up a bottle of honey from Whole Foods and they have ones specifically marked by the county they’re from. It was $9.99, but considering what drugs cost, that’s not too bad.
So is it a placebo? Well, placebos never work on me. Unless of course they’re the sugar kind. No, just joking. The honey is working so far and considering the side effects of honey are you should really brush your teeth afterwards, compared to what they are for those drugs with the fancy names and stupid commercials about some dumb guy running in slow motion through the fields. So if you have allergies, give it a shot. It sure beats possibly having headaches, constipation, diarrhea, insomnia, stuffy nose, upset stomach, vomiting, yeast infections, thresh, depression, mood swings, anxiety, and anal leakage.
anal leakage gets such a bad rap.
My mom was just telling me that a local honey might be good for me, I thought at first she was encouraging me to get a little something on the side.
i’ve been told that local bee pollen is also very good. i have a couple of friends who are beekeepers and they’ve really educated me. it’s inmportant to note that the honey you use for allergic problems should be raw. you don’t want pasteurized honey. it looses all the properties you are looking for.
interesting side: having a honey tasting (like wine) and being able to catch different flavors depending upon where the honey comes from and what sorts of plant sources the bees have. when you have lots of different ones lined up next to each other you can really taste the differences.
I’d never heard of the local honey cure, but it makes sense, doesn’t it? Sort of a hair of the dog-type solution.
I’ve been hearing a lot of weird rumors lately that bees are disappearing or dying off at an alarming rate…hope they’re not true.
I have no idea. But bees yikes. I freak out when one comes near me. I hate them. But like you just said I like honey.
SME, the rumors are true. there has been noted on a widescale within the past year that bee colonies are simply dying off en masse for no apparent reason. for many years US beekeepers have been fighting with what they thought was an infection of very tiny mites that was killing bees. now they are wondering if that was misdiagnosed and was the first stages of what is now occuring.
The pollen count is up due to the amount of carbon dioxide int he atmosspere. Apparently the weeds are growing like crazy. I’ve been using honey, too, and it seems to be working. Also, the bees are disappearing due to Global Warming as well, so you better stock up on that honey while you still can.
I heard a report today, that said the culprit in the bee decline is cell phones and power lines. Bees lose their homing instinct when exposed to them. I think the report said radiation, emanating from cell phones and power lines, is what confuses the bees.
I don’t suppose that native honey would help my leaf mold allergy, would it?
Logo - You got a mind like mine.
Lime - Yeah, I should have said raw, unfiltered. The stuff we have is ugly to look at, not pretty like those half fake honeys they sell at the stores. But it sure helps with allergies. I’m almost 100% already.
SME and Lime - No, I never heard of those rumors. That’s disturbing, considering how much they pollinate.
Tweety - If you don’t disturb them, they won’t sting. I’ve only been stung once, and that’s because I landed on one.
United - Wow. I hope they don’t get wiped out. I happen to like the little buggers. They pollinate stuff.
Tshsmom - No, that won’t help. Only pollen allergies.
Heh, I don’t have a cell phone so I’m not a bad guy if that report is true.
For some reason they still scare me. I mean I know I am bigger than they are but something in my head tells me to be scared of them. I am just plain weird. LOL…
Who cares if it’s a placebo - if it works for you, it works. My allergies were bad a few weeks ago but seem to have subsided some. It sounds gross, but another thing that works real well is nasal lavage. Look it up online. It feels really weird at first, but boy does it work.
Interesting, I have not heard of that. I don’t really have many allergy problems but a lot of my friends and family do. I’ll have to tell them about local honey.
Tweety - Don’t feel bad. I have an irrational fear of heights. I fight it by rock climbing, but I have on one occasion accidently looked down and froze and had to be pulled up. It wasn’t fun.
Laura - Oh, that was a pun. I’ll have to check out what nasal lavage is. Anything that works…
Bsoholic - Make sure it’s raw, unfiltered local honey.
The U.K. was reporting loss of bee species. Agricultural use of chemicals was another theory. Loss of pollinators is a problem with impplications so urgent not much else is comparable.
Have you tried air purifying ? The wipe-off filters using electrostatic charge - the old ones at least - were implicated in ozone pollution. HEPA units are cheap enough a small one for bedroom, office, etc. would carry you through pollenation.