Among the many terrestrial plants there are especially valuable for beekeeping - these are melliferous plants. Millions of years old bees collect nectar from them and create a product unique in its qualities. Honey is a miraculous elixir that accumulates the strength of the earth and the sun. This was believed in antiquity, so we think.
Especially valuable is honey collected from medicinal plants, including narrow-leaved fireweed. This honey plant is better known as ivan tea. Its flowers, dark pink with a lilac shade, are far from rare in Russian open spaces. In the wild, the plant forms real thickets, which, like purple flames, blaze on clearings, vacant lots, along roads and clearings.
In the old days, our ancestors valued and often used fireweed possessing many medicinal qualities. Honey from this plant retains all its healing properties. Pink honey plant abundantly blooming from June to August attracts many bees. In good weather, these toilers collect from one hectare more than 600 kg of healing elixir.
Transparent cypress honey of a greenish tint has a mild aroma and a mild, pleasant taste. When heated, it turns yellow, and crystallizing, forms delicate white grains, similar to snowflakes. It is for this light and delicate taste that fireweed honey is called baby honey.
It is curious that sometimes it is also called male honey. The fact is that it is effective for inflammation of the prostate gland and diseases of the genitourinary system. The healing properties and general strengthening effect of the bee product are known to everyone and everyone since childhood. It is no exception and honey of honey, which has long been used in folk recipes for colds, chronic bronchitis, tonsillitis, cardiac disorders, neurological diseases. Tibetan healers and Russian healers recommend using it for the healing of puncture and cut wounds, burns, inflammation of the mucous membranes and skin diseases. Boiled honey stimulates blood circulation and improves immunity, and with it the body's resistance to many diseases. It is known that willow tea infusion has a well-defined sedative effect, therefore, honey collected from this mellifer and absorbing all its properties can be successfully used in the treatment of insomnia and postpartum depression in women.
Perhaps the therapeutic properties of honey from the flowers of fireweed are much more multifaceted than is known, and their further study will reveal to us many new medicinal qualities of this invaluable drug.
When buying a beekeeping product at a fair, you first need to inquire about the gathering place. The republics of Mari El, Bashkiria and Chuvashia are famous for their high-quality honey of honey, and in the central region of Russia, the Oryol and Ivanovo Regions. The same can be said about the Perm Territory and Udmurtia.
The price of honey in honeycombs increases in proportion to the biological value of this bee product, since wax is an additional source of vitamins entering the body.
Honey is loved and appreciated by the vast majority of people. But especially enthusiastic sweet tooth folk wisdom recalls that everything is good in moderation. In large numbers, and "sweet honey is bitter." You should remember this and use a valuable bee product only with the benefit for your health.