Taking Honey For Allergies

[heydude]

Okay, so this very wise forum recommended buying local honey to cure allergies.

IT WORKS!

So far, I have bought a jar of honey in the spring and it cures my allergies all summer. I have to rebuy a jar in the fall and they go away like that!

I eat the whole jar in the course of a week taking a few big giant spoonfuls during a meal.

The only problem is that I HATE THE TASTE OF HONEY! YUCK! It makes my stomach hurt as well.

But it is worth it considering nothing was helping my allergies and what little was helping you'd have to buy a million pills of to get you through the entire summer.

So, my question is, is there a better way to take this honey? Should I only take a spoonful every few days? Will that work the same? Or do i have to eat this whole big jar ?

Do not recommend that I put honey on toast or in tea or some other thing. I HATE THE TASTE OF HONEY AND ALL THAT WILL DO IS MAKE ME HATE TEA AND MAKE ME HATE TOAST. A few spoons of honey is better than eating an entire toast of honey. Quick and done is how I want!

[Tussiemussies]

Maybe you could make a breakfast smoothie and use it as your sweetener? Mix it with lemon juice when you take it, real lemon juice? Put one tsp. of peanut butter on a spoon and then your scoop of honey on top and eat together?

Glad for you that your allergies are subsiding!:)

[bunnys]

I have never heard that you have to eat the entire jar in a week. I'd heard you just eat local honey and your allergies go away. As example, if you drink honey in your tea, drink honey tea every day and they will be improved and as long as you continue taking honey they will stay improved.

I would think a teaspoon or two per day would be sufficient.

[ljevtich]

What I would suggest is lowering the dosage, starting slowly and see if your allergies are still gone. Just wondering, what allergies do you have? Here in the desert, we seem to have allergies too, of cliff rose and rabbit bush (it is like ragweed only tons of it blooming everywhere!) and we have been using a neti pot.

I would also go with the suggestion of warming it up, mixing with water and lemon juice and drinking it down. You'll still get all the good effects from the honey, plus Vitamin C and soothing warm water. It helps your throat stay healthy as well. I used to drink that concoction down when I had a sore throat, and the soreness would go away.

[Gardenarian]

Wow, I have never met anyone who hated honey! what a drag!

I agree about trying to lessen the amount. That is great that it is working for you - did you read somewhere that you should have a whole jar at the beginning of the season? I have always had just a little a day, but I can see how having a mega-dose might be more effective.

Have you tried taking just the pollen? I hear that works as well, and you only need a little pinch a day.

As to ways to hide the taste, I like honey mixed with nut butter in a sandwich - you don't taste the honey so much as just a sweetness. Also very good in oatmeal. Some honeys have a stronger flavor than others - if you go to a farmer's market they will often let you sample the honey and you can choose the one that is least distasteful to you.

Good luck!

[domestic goddess]

Since you hate the taste of honey, taking just the bee pollen might be the answer, but I don't know how easy it might be to find local bee pollen. Maybe you can find a milder tasting honey that might be a little more palatable to you. If you can't find a way to "hide" it, then it would seem that the only choice is to just swallow it down as quickly as you can. I agree with you about honey in tea; it seems that all I can taste is honey, and I really like the taste of tea, so it is rare for me to have honey in my tea. I do like a peanut butter and honey sandwich, but I don't think this is much help to you. I think I'd look into the bee pollen, if I were you.

[Mighty Frugal]

can you freeze it in ice cube trays and munch on honey-sicles? Often frozen food isn't as strong tasting as room temperature

I hate the taste of honey too

[pony mom]

Years ago I tried "sugaring" my legs, which is a method of hair removal, similar to waxing, that uses a heated honey/sugar/lemon concoction. It doesn't work well. Memories of spending hours in a hot bathroom, covered in sticky sugary stuff, with bits of cloth stuck all over me, and licking the stuff off my fingers....these memories come flooding back when I taste or even hear the word honey. Not something I care to remember.

Hoorah for epilators!

Glad the honey is working for your allergies. I've suggested that to many people over the years and not one of them has ever tried it.

[reader99]

I had an interesting thing with honey recently. Three years ago when my husband was dying I developed eczema on my hand. I used prescription ointment for three years every time it flared up.
A couple of months ago I had occasion to use a little honey every day for a while. suddenly one day I noticed the eczema was completely gone. It was just regular grocery store honey, no way to tell if it was local. So that was magical for me.

I also endorse the idea of reducing dosage until you lose the effect and then bumping it back up just a bit. If you hate it you hate it, so my only other thought would be to liquify it somehow, like with water or vinegar or lemon juice so you can drink it down and get it over with faster.

[heydude]

i gave up. i will try netti pot.

[Tussiemussies]

i gave up. i will try netti pot.

Hey dude I read somewhere that it is really important to use distiller water with a netI pot. They mentioned that some people got ill otherwise, cannot remember where I read it though...

[decemberlov]

Hey dude I read somewhere that it is really important to use distiller water with a netI pot. They mentioned that some people got ill otherwise, cannot remember where I read it though...

I've heard this as well....

[cx3]

Yes,there was someone who died in Lousiana from using a neti pot. He contracted a brain eating ameba via the local water supply.

[Tussiemussies]

Yes, I didn't want to scare heydude but I also read that several people died from using tap water with a NetI pot. Distilled water was recommended...