Honey is a highly nutritious food that contains mainly sugar, with the most prominent monosaccharides (fructose and glucose) accounting for 85% to 95% of the total. It facilitates the direct absorption of human food, is easily digested, quickly utilized, and has antibacterial and obesity control properties.
The clinical use of honey usually has the same functions as traditional beverages, promoting gastrointestinal secretion, aiding digestion and absorption, enhancing blood circulation, promoting tissue metabolism, increasing cellular activity, etc. It is then added to related herbs to make various types of meads used to treat diseases.
Here are 12 of our popular mead recipes and their effects, so you don’t have to see a doctor anymore.
Recipe: 150 grams of honey, 25 grams of bamboo, 1800 grams of white wine
Method: Soak honey and bamboo yellow in white wine for 7 days and drink the wine
Usage: Drink 30-40 grams twice a day.
Efficacy: It has anti-asthma effect. It is suitable for chronic bronchitis and can stop asthma after a few days of consumption.
Contraindications: Avoid spicy, hot and cold foods when eating.
Recipe: Honey 60g, lard 60g, white wine 700g
Method: Soak honey and lard in white wine, boil gently, strain through gauze after heating, and drink the wine
Dosage: 15-20 grams each time, three times a day.
Effects: Warm and nourish the lungs, moisturize the skin and beautify the hair. It is suitable for elderly people with rough skin, long cough and dry hair.
Recipe: 100g of honey, 80g of ginseng, 80g of ginger, 1800g of rice wine.
Method: Soak ginseng and ginger in wine, add honey and drink after 21 days, each time in appropriate amount.
Efficacy: Nourish the body and treat weakness. After drinking, the ingredients can be used for brewing.
Recipe: 500 grams of honey, 50 grams of red currant, 1000 grams of well water.
Method: Mix honey with red currant and well water and place in a bottle. Seal the bottle with kraft paper. After 45 days of fermentation, it turns into wine.
Effect: It is effective in invigorating the blood, moistening the lungs, tonifying the middle of the body, opening the intestines and constipation. It is suitable for relieving constipation caused by dry intestines, chronic cough caused by lung deficiency, chronic bronchitis, neurasthenia, insomnia, etc. Regular consumption can make your skin red, youthful and strengthen the immune system. For young people, it is especially beneficial to drink it for a long time.
Recipe: 500 grams of honey, 50 grams of royal jelly, 250 grams of white wine.
Method: Mix honey and royal jelly in white wine, add 1000g of cold boiled water, put in a bottle, shake well and keep for drinking.
Usage: Take 50ml daily.
Efficacy: Benefit the liver and spleen, nourish and strengthen the body.
Suitable for people: It is suitable for the treatment of rheumatic arthritis, heart disease, diabetes, neurasthenia, weakness of the elderly and energy deficiency. It can be used as a healthy drink for the elderly.
Recipe: 100g of honey, 200g of pine needles, 100g of bamboo leaves, 2000g of 60 degree white wine.
Method: Soak honey, pine needles and bamboo leaves in white wine for 30 days, then take the wine and drink it.
Usage: Drink 15-20 grams each time.
Efficacy: purify the blood, eliminate fatigue, improve the spirit, suitable for the treatment of arteriosclerosis.
Recipe: 120 grams of honey, 120 grams of glutinous rice and 60 grams of dried currant.
Method: Mix honey and glutinous rice, then add to dry starter, add 1500g of hot water in the bottle and seal for 7 days.
Usage: Remove the residue and drink alcohol 3 times a day, taking 100g warm before each serving, or use honey instead.
Efficacy: It has the effect of harmonizing blood vessels, clearing wind and moistening lungs, suitable for treating rubella and psoriasis.
Recipe: 15~30g of honey and appropriate amount of white wine.
Method: Take honey and drink it together with white wine.
How to use: Take it 1 hour before the onset of dry malaria, or take it 3 times in a row on the day of malaria onset.
Efficacy: It can stop malaria and is suitable for mead to treat malaria. It has been used to treat 423 cases with satisfactory results.
Recipe: 100g of honey, 150g of wolfberry, 20g of bark, 1000g of 60 degree white wine
Method: Mix honey with white wine, soak wolfberry and bark in wine for 30 days, and take the wine to drink.
Usage: Drink mead every day before going to bed
Effect: It has the effect of tonifying the kidney and strengthening the liver, and is suitable for the treatment of liver and kidney deficiency, lumbago, leg weakness and blurred vision.
Recipe: 150 grams of honey, 800 grams of kumquat, 2000 grams of white wine
Method: Mix honey with white wine, soak kumquats in the wine for 30 days, then take the wine and drink.
Efficacy: It is suitable for treating cough as it promotes gastrointestinal motility and relieves cough and phlegm. It is also a good table wine with good color, aroma and taste.
Recipe: 30 grams of honey, 10 grams of mushrooms, 10 grams of acerola and 500 grams of 30 degree white wine.
Method: Soak the three flavors in white wine for 15 days
Usage: Drink mead in appropriate amounts each time.
Efficacy: anti-cancer, suitable for stomach cancer
Recipe: 200g honey, 50g shiitake mushrooms, 3g lemon, 1000g 60℃ white wine
How to do: Wash mushrooms, slice lemon, soak honey in white wine for 15 days but take out lemon for 7 days to keep the taste of mushrooms.
Usage: Drink 15-20 grams twice a day.
Efficacy: It is suitable for treating hypertension, appetite and spleen
