Way off topic...honey.

[GhostSkull]

My question is,what about all the allergans that are blown in here from up north?

Gotta be Mountain Cedar! Gets me Everytime!

[Deb]

It works good with some folks and not at all with others. Natural medicine is like that. Some remedies work wonders for me and do nothing for Arvin at all. The reverse is also true.

[FISHUNTER]

An older fellow I worked with had a deal where he was selling "local honey" on the side of the road. He sold alot of it. I asked him "what's the deal with local honey" and where did he get his to sell? He told me he bought it locally at Sam's in gallon jugs and bottled it in smaller bottles to sell at his roadside stand. True story !!!!!!! couldn't comment on the alergie thing. He's still out there selling in the Victoria area.

Thats just wrong....someone needs to call him out on that.

[TXBlkCld]

I get hammered every year.

We don't need to hear about your annual drinking binges in a honey thread.
Sorry, it was hanging out there like a fast ball over the plate. Lol

[dustoffer]

Friend at church laid that one on me last week--but then he has a new one each week. Two weeks ago it was coconut butter to "cleanse the throat and vocal cords."

His wife is a naturopathic nut, always doing tart bing cherries for cholesterol, or raisins soaked in gin for arthritis, etc, etc, etc. I just nod my head and say "Uh huh, uh huh"

Once in a while I find some scientific peer-reviewed study that says "maybe" but I've never found one that confirms any of them.

I do take glucosamine for an arthritic knee joint pain, and have for about 3 years. Found zero scientific evidence to support it other than their conclusion at NIH (National Institute of Health) was that it may help 50% of the folks, there are no adverse side effects, and they don't know which 50% or why. Helps me so far.

[1TexasPatriot]

My question is,what about all the allergans that are blown in here from up north?

What I had read was that because a lot of allergies are caused my pollens that are windblown from other areas, rather than what bees carry in their respective areas, it makes it difficult to build up a regional resistance.

However, my mother was an organic freak and huge on hollistic's, she swore that Honey was a natural superfood and good for the immune system in general because of the enzyme exchange between the bees and the honey during production.

I know this, we all use it at my house, an it's from a local farm, and we are on the whole, knock on wood a healthy family.

I just took the article I posted at face value, so there's no telling what we might know years from now either.

[Dirtymike]

Mac you are right!! I believe it was me when we were talking about your garden and if you should go organic with it.

[jerp]

I asked an allergist about the locally grown honey. He cited all the studies that said it does not work, but he said he has patients that swear it works for them. His opinion was "hey if it works for you, good! If you're convinced that eating honey, drinking stump water collected during a full moon, or sleeping in a Santa Claus hat keeps you from sneezing, who am I to tell you to stop?"

[Dirtymike]

That's funny

[NannySlayer]

So, is there any evidence that eating locally grown honey will increase resistance to allergies in that area? Or, is that just a myth?

Todd

Does honey actually 'grow'???

[chief longshaft]

An older fellow I worked with had a deal where he was selling "local honey" on the side of the road. He sold alot of it. I asked him "what's the deal with local honey" and where did he get his to sell? He told me he bought it locally at Sam's in gallon jugs and bottled it in smaller bottles to sell at his roadside stand. True story !!!!!!! couldn't comment on the alergie thing. He's still out there selling in the Victoria area.

That's funny

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[Francism]

An older fellow I worked with had a deal where he was selling "local honey" on the side of the road. He sold alot of it. I asked him "what's the deal with local honey" and where did he get his to sell? He told me he bought it locally at Sam's in gallon jugs and bottled it in smaller bottles to sell at his roadside stand. True story !!!!!!! couldn't comment on the alergie thing. He's still out there selling in the Victoria area.

hahaha! He bottled it locally!

[BoneDigger]

Does honey actually 'grow'???

Good catch. Perhaps locally collected?

Todd

[Speedgoat]

It is a myth if you don't believe in it Me, I believe it works.

[Pistol]

Maybe it's psychological for me but, My allergies have almost completely gone since I started(4 years ago) having a couple spoonfuls in my green tea everyday. I used to suffer terribly every spring. Maybe it's the tea.

X2 for me, exactly except I don't drink green tea