Which honey has honey from the sweet clover?

On the edge of the forests of the temperate natural zone, there is a plant that gives us (with the help of bees) a fragrant and tasty honey, - a clover. Useful properties and harm of this flower and will be discussed in our article. At once it is necessary to make a reservation that the clover plant is of two kinds: with white and yellow flowers. The latter is considered medicinal. All beekeepers know that the most valuable and healthy for the body honey is obtained from the flowers of the yellow sweet clover. But it is very difficult to find it on sale. Instead, it is often possible to find a fake - agrimony honey. It is also delicious, but sweeter, to a sugary. And the useful properties in comparison with the honeycomb honey in the burdock are not enough. How to distinguish one product from another? We will explain this in our article. We will also touch on the question of who should avoid the use of sweet products from the flowers of the sweet clover. Honey, of course, is very useful for health, but it also has contraindications.

Honey of sweet clover: useful properties

The photo in the article shows us a jar of this product. First of all, striking a strange color, not "honey". The product has a milky, even greenish tinge. The white clover enriches honey with the smell of vanilla. But this taste is easy. Honey should not smell like vanilla ice cream. The white clover crystallizes very slowly. And if this happens, you get a creamy mass of white, like milk, colors. The medicinal clover (the one with yellow flowers) gives honey with a little bitterness. It is this product that is most useful. But since it contains a lot (up to forty percent) of fructose, it quickly crystallizes. Every clover is a storehouse of vitamins. But yellow honey, although it bitter, is more useful. In Canada and the USA, he is the leader in the sale of beekeeping products. In sweet honey, high enzymatic activity. Let us analyze in more detail its useful properties.

Value

Sorts of honey, or rather, flowers, the nectar of which served as the starting material for the product, have different indications and are used to treat various diseases. For example, a linden is good for a cold. Honey from acacia is used for the treatment of ailments of the gastrointestinal tract. Chestnut color restores the work of the heart. And what is the value of honey from the clover? Useful properties of this beekeeping product can not be overestimated. But his main "specialization" is women's health. Donnick honey contains minerals and microelements, which cause breastfeeding in breastfeeding mothers. This product should also be consumed during pregnancy, so that the body can get these substances and rebuild for delivery and subsequent lactation. It is enough to eat one spoonful of honey at the end of the meal. But this product is good for other women, and not just those who are preparing to become a mother or breast-feeding. Honey from the clover is advised by doctors to use with climacteric neurosis.

Indications for internal use

The plant with yellow flowers is recognized as curative. Therefore, it is not surprising that honey from the clover is also such. The useful properties of this product are not limited to the mere influence on female reproductive health. Honey from yellow sweet clover is an excellent sedative. It helps with insomnia, neuroses, increased pressure, frequent headaches. Like honey from linden, dolnikovy used for the treatment of the respiratory tract. It not only removes inflammation, but is even effective (in combination with other medications, of course) in the treatment of tuberculosis. And he is an excellent laxative and diuretic. And, of course, like every honey, dolnikovy has an expectorant property, so it is prescribed for colds, bronchitis, tonsillitis. It increases immunity, it is recommended to use it in the period of epidemics.

Indications for external use

How to use honey from the clover? Useful properties of this food product make up a long list. Among them are spasmolytic and analgesic actions. Even in ancient times honey from the yellow sweet clover in the form of compresses was applied to burns and suppurating wounds. It is effective in the treatment of furunculosis. Honey can be dissolved in warm water and thus prepare medicinal baths for children. Such fonts are also good for adults in case of rheumatism, myositis, varicose veins, joint diseases. Honey has a mild laxative effect, so it is recommended to those who suffer from constipation. And as a medicine for external use it is used for gout.

Donnikovy honey in folk medicine

Sweet clover, bottom grass, burkun called this herb-plant our ancestors. And botanists call it Melilotus. This Latin term consists of two words: "chalk" (meaning "honey") and "lotus" ("fodder grass"). It is very easy now to determine the essence of this two-year-old plant Legumes. "Honey lotus" blossoms very beautifully, especially yellow. Bees, smelling his scent, rush to him swarms. The use of honey from the clover was known a long time ago, and not only in Russia. Traditional medicine used it as an expectorant for coughing, with pneumonia, bronchitis. In Russia, cut out the middle of the black radish and put inside the honeycomb honey. For a day and a half, he mixed with the juice of the vegetable. This drug was consumed twenty minutes before eating one dessert spoon. Donnik is a very fragrant plant. It is used not only as a product of beekeeping. Zaporozhye Cossacks chopped dry grass sweet clover and added to tobacco. And Ukrainian housewives were decoating the plants with barrels, in which they were going to pickle vegetables.

In cosmetology

Representatives of the fair sex quickly realized what useful honey from the clover. Youth acne will go away, and oily skin will be softly dried, if a spoonful of this delicious medicine is added to warm water for washing. At more serious problems (spots, furuncles, acne) make cosmetic masks. To do this, grind a large grater on two cucumbers and mix with a spoon of honey. Apply this mask to the cleansed dry face, wash off after fifteen minutes. This remedy is useful for any type of skin. The only thing to consider: if you do not want the mask to dry your face, add a little fat cream or sour cream. And for oily skin, such a simple folk recipe is suitable: in a glass of warm water, add a teaspoon of honey honey and stir well. Wipe this solution with a face instead of a tonic. The essential oil of this plant is used in soap making to fix the odor.

In dietetics

Those who follow the figure, too, have long noticed honey from the sweet clover. The properties of this product in dietetics are twofold. On the one hand, it perfectly cleanses the intestines, without harming its microflora. Donnick honey has a weakly expressed thermogenic, as well as a diuretic effect. This should be taken into account by those who use dietary supplements for weight loss. In this case, you need to increase the consumption of liquid, and also less to drink coffee, tea, energy drinks. On the other hand, the calorie content of such honey is quite high - three hundred and nine kilocalories (per 100 g). But there is no fat in the product, and this is with a significant content of carbohydrates (81.5 g). Proteins in honey from clover 0,8 gram. The content of glucose is also quite high: 36.7 percent with 40% fructose. This should be borne in mind by diabetic patients. You should also know that this product immediately loses all its valuable properties when heated above fifty degrees. But in its natural form it is useful both in liquid and in candied form.

Honey of sweet clover: medicinal properties and contraindications

In our world there are no certainly useful products. So, honeycomb honey also has its own, though a few, contraindications. Let's not forget that this plant belongs to the family Legumes. Therefore, it is recommended to avoid its use to those who suffer from allergies to peas, beans and similar products. Honey can cause increased flatulence of the intestines, especially in combination with milk. In allergic people, it can cause indigestion. There are resinous and tannic substances in the grass of the sweet clover. Therefore, in Central Asia and the Caucasus it is used as a seasoning. And in the food are like leaves, and stems and even roots. But in the chemical composition of the plant there is also dicumarol, which prevents blood clotting. In the flowers of the clover there are vitamins E and C, choline, flavonium glycoside and other biologically active substances.

How to distinguish a valuable product from forgery

This plant in our country develops wastelands and roadsides, whereas in the USA and Canada it is specially sown for the sake of honey in the first place, and also for the sake of hay for livestock. Get in America a product from a sweet clover is easy. But in our part of the world honey from this plant is a rarity. Buy it, and even in a liquid form, you can only beekeepers. In shops, fakes are often sold - also honey, but from rape. It gives too much sugary taste and lack of vanilla scent. The color of honey from the clover should be very light - "hayne". And when it crystallizes, it does acquire a shade and a consistency of pork smalt. Honey from the yellow sweet clover first a little bitter, and then on the palate for a long time there is a sweet-sharp aftertaste. After trying this product, you will not confuse it with any other.

Honey for hypertensive people

In this issue, the opinions of scientists and traditional healers differ. The first claim that coumarin, contained in the nectar of a plant, raises blood pressure. Traditional medicine assures that for patients suffering from hypertension, it is just useful to eat honey from the sweet clover. Useful properties of this product are also that it improves peripheral circulation.