"Silkworms spin silk, bees make honey", collecting nectar is the instinct of bees! In the season when colds are common in winter, using honey to relieve cough in children is what parents usually do. Today, I will introduce radish honey drink to you.
【Name】
Radish honey drink
【Ingredients】
5 slices of white radish, 3 slices of ginger, 3 jujubes, 30g of honey.
【Preparation】
Boil radish, ginger, jujubes in water for about 30 minutes, remove the residue, add honey, and boil again.
【Usage】
Take it warm, 1-2 times a day.
【Treatment】
Effective for treating cough caused by cold. It is suitable for infants who are weak and prone to cough, long-lasting or recurrent.
【Precautions】
Not suitable for those with fever and yellow phlegm caused by wind-heat cough.
【Formation of Honey】
Honey is made by bees, not artificially made! Honey mainly comes from nectar. Nectar is a sweet substance secreted by nectar glands inside or outside flowers when they bloom. Its main component is a sugar solution with sucrose as the main sugar, with a water content of over 40%.
After collecting nectar, bees do not simply process it. When bees collect nectar, they secrete and transform enzymes and amylase into the nectar. The collected nectar is sucked into the honey sac by forager bees, then returned to the mouthparts, and repeated several times before transferring the honey juice into the hive. During this process, bees not only add enzymes and amylase, but also mix them to convert sucrose, dextrin, and starch into monosaccharides and remove excess water from the nectar, thus forming honey. Natural mature honey refers to honey that bees brew, with a water content below 20% (i.e. 41.2 degrees Celsius).
【Honey Cough Remedies】
1. Peanut and jujube honey soup: 30g of peanuts, jujubes, and honey each, boiled in water until soft, drink the soup, take it twice a day.
It has the effect of relieving cough and phlegm, suitable for cough with excessive phlegm.
2. Pear honey soup: 1 pear, 60g of honey. Dig a hole in the pear, remove the core, fill it with honey, and steam it over water until cooked. Consume before sleep.
It has the effect of moistening dryness and resolving phlegm, suitable for children with dry lungs and cough.
3. Garlic sugar honey drink: 20g of garlic, appropriate amount of sugar and honey. Mash the garlic, soak it in boiling water and let it cool, then simmer for half an hour. Add the juice to honey and sugar, take it twice a day.
It has the effect of clearing heat and moistening dryness, suitable for children with pneumonia or persistent cough. Wishing you good health.
