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Honey -- the "new" cough medicine
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 103484" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>My mother used to mix lemon juice with honey and warm it. When we had a cold we had to sip a spoonful to ease a sore throat.</p><p>But easy child 2/difficult child 2 doesn't like it with lemon, husband can't take too much lemon and so we've begun just using honey. Singers need to avoid using too much, because too much sugar is metabolised into more carbon dioxide than fat, and an overload of sugar will increase breathing rate enough to affect a performance (speaking from experience! I later found the physiology behind it).</p><p></p><p>In Australia we have ti-tree honey and yellowbox honey. The New Zealanders have a tree similar to ti-tree, the manuka, which makes perhaps one of the best honeys in the world for healing. They've been using these three honeys for treating leg ulcers. We've been able to buy tubes of "medihoney" which is pasteurised honey designed for medical use. Sold in pharmacies. TGA listed. From what I can find out, I think it's manuka honey.</p><p></p><p>Another interesting use - when you're working in the garden and trying to strike plant cuttings, you can use honey instead of hormone rooting powder. We've stopped buying the expensive products and just dip the cutting ends in honey. It works!</p><p></p><p>Amazing stuff, honey.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 103484, member: 1991"] My mother used to mix lemon juice with honey and warm it. When we had a cold we had to sip a spoonful to ease a sore throat. But easy child 2/difficult child 2 doesn't like it with lemon, husband can't take too much lemon and so we've begun just using honey. Singers need to avoid using too much, because too much sugar is metabolised into more carbon dioxide than fat, and an overload of sugar will increase breathing rate enough to affect a performance (speaking from experience! I later found the physiology behind it). In Australia we have ti-tree honey and yellowbox honey. The New Zealanders have a tree similar to ti-tree, the manuka, which makes perhaps one of the best honeys in the world for healing. They've been using these three honeys for treating leg ulcers. We've been able to buy tubes of "medihoney" which is pasteurised honey designed for medical use. Sold in pharmacies. TGA listed. From what I can find out, I think it's manuka honey. Another interesting use - when you're working in the garden and trying to strike plant cuttings, you can use honey instead of hormone rooting powder. We've stopped buying the expensive products and just dip the cutting ends in honey. It works! Amazing stuff, honey. Marg [/QUOTE]
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