Honey

7 Proven Benefits and Uses of Honey for Your Healthy Heart

The benefits of honey has been famously known for centuries. Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, always applied honey to keep her face and body beautiful. However, honey is not only beneficial for face and body but also for our health, for example for treating heart disease. Heart disease is commonly caused by the lack of blood that supplies oxygen to our heart.

The symptoms of heart disease are:

  • Frequently dizzy.
  • Cold sweat.
  • Hard to breath.

Even though heart disease is a number one killer in the world, many neglect the dangerous of heart disease. Heart disease attacks our blood vessel system. In this condition, our heart cannot function well as it should be, for example our heart muscles are weak and there are slits between right atrium and left atrium.

There are several causes of heart disease:

  • Poor living habit.
  • Poor diet.
  • Congenital abnormalities.

Honey is good for both preventing and curing heart disease. Honey contains of high polyphenol. Polyphenol acts as an antioxidant that protects our cells from damage and free radical. Honey can be consumed alone or mixed with another agents.

The nutrition of honey per 100 g (3.5 oz):

  • Energy: 1.272 kJ (304 kcal)
  • Carbohydrate: 82.4 g
  • Sugar: 82.12 g
  • Fat: 0 g
  • Fiber: 0.2 g
  • Protein: 0.3 g
  • Water: 17.10 g
  • Riboflavin (Vitamin B2): 0.038 mg (3%)
  • Niacin (Vitamin B3): 0.121 mg (1%)
  • Pantotenat Acid (B5): 0.068 mg (1%)
  • Vitamin B6: 0.024 mg (2%)
  • Folic (Vitamin B9): 2 μg (1%)
  • Vitamin C: 0.5 mg (1%)
  • Calcium: 6 mg (1%)
  • Iron: 0.42 mg (3%)
  • Magnesium: 2 mg (1%)
  • Phosphor: 4 mg (1%)
  • Potassium: 52 mg (1%)
  • Natrium: 4 mg (0%)
  • Zinc: 0.22 mg (2%)

How Honey Can Cure Heart Disease:

1. Increasing Heart Metabolism.

First benefits of honey for heart is increasing metabolism. Honet provides nutrition for our heart muscles and increases our heart metabolism. This natural substance contributes well to coronary vessel circulation by increasing hemoglobin (pigment in red blood cells that brings oxygen to every heart tissue) and vasodilatation (blood vessel enlargement that reduce blood pressure) and prevents blood from coagulation.

2. Reducing Cholesterol.

Honey mixed with cinnamon can reduce cholesterol in artery vessel and reduce the risk of heart attack. Heart disease patient who has experienced the first heart attack can avoid the second heart attack by consuming honey mixed with cinnamon everyday. Consuming honey regularly can make our respiratory system performs better and make the heart beat stronger. 

3. Antioxidant.

The antioxidant in honey comes from various sources such as vitamin C, monophenolics, flavonoid polifenol. The flavonoid intake can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.

4. Reducing Cholesterol.

The cholesterol level can be reduced by routinely drink honey mixed with olive oil and Habbatussauda. These potion can reduce the cholesterol level in our blood. Meanwhile, a pure natural honey can minimize the cholesterol disruption if it is consumed everyday.

5. Preventing Second Heart Attack.

Consuming Yellow Bitter Honey mixed with habbatus oil and olive oil before eating and sleeping everyday will positively reduce cholesterol in our artery vessel which is therefore reducing the risk of heart attack. Heart disease patient who has experienced the first heart attack can avoid the second heart attack by consuming those potion. Yellow Bitter Honey will make our respiratory system performs better and make the heart beat stronger.

6. Strengthening Heart Muscles.

Honey is beneficial for strengthening our heart muscles because it contains sugar, mineral salt, enzyme, and vitamin that make our heart muscles, especially the weak one, performs better

7. Curing Heart Diseases.

Honey is good for Acute Heart Inflammation (drink 50 gr of honey 3 times a day), Chronic Heart Disease (drink 25 gr of honey 3 times a day) and Heart Cancer Stadium 1 ( drink 25 gr of honey 3 times a day).

Uses of Honey For Heart Problems

Heart disease requires intensive medical treatment which also costs a lot of money. However, we can apply “cheap” treatment at home by making herbal potion to cure heart disease using honey mixed with other medical herbs. We should patiently and consistently practice this medication method for having the best result.

1. The Potion for Heart Flutter and Heart Pain:

Ingredients: 

  • 6 pieces of turkey berri or mini-eggplant leaves.
  • 1/2 turmeric rhizome
  • 1/2 cup boiled water
  • 1 spoonful of pure natural honey

How to make:

  • Clean #1 and #2 ingredients well.
  • Mashed them well, add water and honey.
  • Squeeze and strain it.

Drinking Rules:

Drink this potion mixed with honey two times a day.

2. The Potion for Heart Failure (Cardiac Failure):

a. First Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 6 pieces of fresh genje leaves
  • Suffiecient amount of pure honey

How to make:

  • Mashed gloryblower (Clerodendron Indicum L O. Ktje) leaves
  • Mixed it with honey
  • Stir the potion well.

Usage Rules:

Apply this potion to painful area.

b. Second Recipe.

Ingredients:

1/2 gr fresh gloryblower (Clerodendron Indicum L O. Ktje) leaves.
1 glass of water

How to make:

  • Cook the leaves with 1 glass of water for 15 minutes.
  • After it is boiled, strain it.

Drinking Rules:

Simply drink this potion mixed with honey.

Caution :

These plants are poisonous. Consuming it raw is not strongly suggested. These plants have already been extracted in the form of capsule/tablet. Their usage while they are still raw is suggested in a very low dosage. Stop consuming them if you are diarrhea or vomit as soon as after consuming it.

3. The Potion for Heart Attack:

Ingredients:

  • 10 gr of  the plant bulbs of heartleaf madeiravine leaves.
  • 1/2 glass of water

How to Make:

  • Clean the plant bulbs of heartleaf madeiravine, mashed them and add 1/2 glass of water.
  • Squeeze and strain them.

Drinking Rules:

  • Drink this potion mixed with honey in the afternoon.
  • Or eat 2-4 pieces leaves together with rice and sambal terasi (traditional Javanese hot sauce)

4. The Potion for Heart Rheumatism:

Ingredients:

  • 10 pieces of wild heliotropeo
  • 1/2 handful of sangket leaves (Latin: Maschosma polystachum)
  • 6 pieces of kaca piring (Latin: Gardenia augusta) leaves.
  • 3 glass of water

How to Make:

  • Clean all ingredients, boil them with 3 glasses of water until it remains 2 glasses.
  • After the potion cold, strain it.

Drinking Rules:

  • Drink this potion one glass with honey two times a day.

5. The Potion for Heart Inflammation:

Ingredients:

  • 1 handful of lime flowers

How to Make:

  • Clean the lime flowers, boil them with 3 glasses of air until it remains 1 1/2 glass.
  • After it is cold, strain it.

Drinking Rules:

  • Drink this potion with honey 1/2 glass 3 times a day.

6. The Potion for Angina Pectoris: 

Ingredients:

  • 5 pieces of wild heliotrope
  • 1/2 Javanese ginger rhizome
  • 10 pieces of kaca piring (Latin: Gardenia augusta) leaves.
  • 1 Indian mulberry

How to Make:

  • Wash all ingredients
  • Boil them with 3 glasses of water until it remains 1 1/2 glass
  • Strain after it is cold
  • Add 1 Indian mulberry that has been squeezed. Stir the potion altogether.

Drinking Rules:

  • Drink this potion one glass with honey 2 times a day.

7. The Potion for Hypertension Heart:

a. First Recipe:

Ingredients:

  • 5 g garlic
  • 2 cucumber

How to Make:

  • Wash all ingredients, mince, and squeeze them.
  • Add 2 spoon full of natural bee honey.

Drinking Rules:

  • Drink this potion every morning.

b. Second Recipe:

Ingredients:

  • 3 celery leaves
  • 5 pieces of avocado leaves
  • 1/2 lime

How to Make:

  • Wash celery leaves and avocado leaves.
  • Cut them small, boil them in 3 glasses of water until they remain 2 glasses.
  • Strain after it is cold.
  • Add lime and honey, mix them well together.

Drinking Rules:

  • Drink it 1 glass 2 times a day.

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Why Is Honey Good for Heart Disease Medication:

1. Easy to Digest.

One of natural honey specialty is its sugar molecules. Their sugar molecules can transform into another form of sugar (for example fructose and glucose). Honey is easy to digest, even it is by a sensitive stomach, even though honey consists of high acid.  Honey helps kidney and colon to work at their best.

2. Low Calorie.

Compared with sugar, honey contains 40% calorie lower than sugar. Even though it gives strong energy, honey does not make us gain our weight.

3. Easily Diffuse through Our Blood.

If honey is mixed with warm water, it can easily diffuse in our blood within seven minutes. Its free sugar molecule makes our brain performs better because our brain is the biggest sugar consumer.

Honey is like a drugstore because it provides everything we need to cure the disease and keep us healthy.