Health benefits of honey and cinnamon

Honey has been used for medical purposes for centuries and is being produced almost everywhere in the world.

From Yunani and Ayurvedic medicine to modern science, everyone recognizes honey as an efficient medication. It may be used without any kind of side effect. Even diabetics may use it, if respecting the appropriate dosage. Recently, it has been found that the mixture of honey and cinnamon can be used as a cure for many diseases.

Eating a paste made of honey and cinnamon regularly for breakfast with bread instead of jam can reduce cholesterol in the veins and arteries. This can prevent a heart attack. Also, the heartbeat improves when eating this mixture regularly.

Veins and arteries loose flexibility as they age and get clogged. Nursing homes in America and Canada that use this treatment, discovered that honey and cinnamon revitalize veins and arteries.

Honey can be mixed into a paste with lukewarm water and a small teaspoon of cinnamon powder and applied on an insect bite to relieve itching within minutes.

A cup of hot water with two spoons of honey and a teaspoon of cinnamon should be taken twice a day. Regular use of this should help curing even chronic arthritis. Recently, a research at the Copenhagen University has shown that after the honey and cinnamon therapy, 73 patients out of 200 were completely relieved of pain within a week, and within a month, almost all of the arthritis patients could walk without pain.

Hot olive oil should be mixed into a paste with a tablespoon of honey and a teaspoon of cinnamon and applied before taking a bath, for about fifteen minutes in order to help decrease hair loss.

Taking two tablespoons of cinnamon and a tablespoon of honey in a glass of lukewarm water should help destroy the bacteria in bladder, whilepaste made up of five teaspoons of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder applied three times a day should ease a toothache.

Three teaspoons of cinnamon powder and two tablespoons of honey mixed with tea reduces cholesterol levels within two hours. Taken three times a day, it cures chronic cholesterol.

According to the Eastern medicine, impotent men can solve this problem by taking a tablespoon of honey before going to sleep. Women should take a pinch of cinnamon with a tablespoon of honey and let them melt in their mouths often during the day for fertility issues.

Taking honey and cinnamon every day also helps the immune system. Honey is rich in vitamins and iron. It helps white blood corpuscles in fighting diseases.

Honey and cinnamon taken three times a day for a month helps patients with stomach and bones cancer as well.

In South American tradition, people gargle honey and cinnamon with water in order to have fresh breath throughout the day.