reply to post by speculativeoptimist
Yes, honey, honey and more honey, honey. It is truly a wonder substance and you don't have to buy New Zealand honey - find a local beekeeper and
slather it on, internally and externally. Local honey will boost your immune system far more than imports from foreign environments. Local allergies
are best treated with local products. And, local honey is sustainable and green - the carbon footprint in importing that NZ honey is very high and
not necessary. Keep your locals employed.
Honey has phenomenal antimicrobial and antifungal properties. Studies of beekeepers (I mean the old guys who've been beekeeping for decades) have
shown that this population has very low incidences of cancer, asthma, arthritis, colds and flu. Apitherapy (bee sting therapy) is also being used for
treatment of lyme's disease with anecdotal success. It is, as this Poster notes, excellent for treating burns and wounds with quite amazingly fast
healing.
Also eat propolis and royal jelly (the queen bees are fed a diet of royal jelly and I eat anything a queen eats). Great energy boosters - I used to
down large quantities during my martial arts days.
For those interested in the more vain pursuits, try it as a facial at home. Clean skin thoroughly (I use plain old green bentonite clay {for external
use only} with organic apple cider vinegar - that's a whole other wonder medicine from nature), rinse with water and then witch hazel. Then, take
your fabulous honey, smear it all over your face and neck and apply a moist, warm cloth (aids in penetration of antioxidants and such into the skin)
and relax, preferably in a nice hot epsom salt and organic sea salt bath. Afterward, accept the compliments on your fabulously youthful, vibrant
skin.
It is important to buy honey that has the word RAW on the label. There's no such thing as organic (bees fly all over the place and one cannot
regulate where they get their pollen from). A lot of manufacturers take some honey, mix it with very bad sugars and sell it to you as organic or
natural. NO!!!! China does this. Their honey imports have been banned in the US, so, what they do is they sell it to mexico, who then sells this
stuff across the border. The only word to trust is RAW - and if it's not on the label, don't buy it.
Hospitals and doctor's offices are places of disease. I lost my mother to VRE (vancomycin resistant enterococcus) over 10 years ago - and she got
that disease FROM the hospital environment. This, unfortunately, is becoming an all-too-familiar story for many people. Prevention is FAR less
expensive than all the garbage big pharma wants to put into you and do to you after your immune system is so compromised you get sick (at their hands,
no less)
On a literary note, I highly recommend the book, "The Secret Life of Bees." Wonderful homage to a life led with bees and their products as the
focal point of community, ritual, health and relationship.
All the best to you in your healing.
With my own kids ( except the transplant recipient who lives at
the Dr) I hardly ever take them to the Dr and they are hardly ever sick. Ive been criticized by friends and my husbands family for not having taken
one of the kids here or there when they had a bug, but their bodies fought things off and they are fine in the end.I mean I dont take chances with
them.. but run to the pediatrician for EVERY sniffle and puke session is ridiculous! They havent been antibiotic-ed to death. 
