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Food Cures: DIY Medicinal Honey {with raw honey, herbs, and essential oils}

Food Cures: DIY Medicinal Honey {with raw honey, herbs, and essential oils}
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Food Cures: DIY Medicinal Honey {made with raw honey, herbs, and essential oils}

Here’s a recipe I make, and ingredients I keep handy, all winter all year round.

This stuff’s amazing!

And because flu season seems to be upon us, I had to share it.

Along with my arsenal of:

…this medicinal honey has kept me and my family from colds/flu, so I just know it will keep you healthy too!

DIY Medicinal Honey

Ingredients

Method

  1. Mix all of the ingredients until well combined. Note: If your honey is hard, you may gently warm it until it is stirrable, and then stir in the ground herbs and essential oils.
  2. Store on the counter in a 4 ounce glass jar. Will keep indefinitely.

To Use

Stir a teaspoon of the honey into warm lemon water or herbal tea. Or spread it over toast. Or just lick it right off the spoon.

If you’re already feeling under the weather, take 1 teaspoon every 2-3 hours. When I feel something coming on, I like to take it 3-4 times a day. Otherwise, this honey is great to consume once daily as prevention.

Where Can I Get This Stuff

–Mountain Rose Herbs…they have everything you’ll need by way of Bulk Herbs and Natural Products for Healthy, Natural Living! It’s your one-stop-shop!

–For pure, safe essential oils you can trust choose ::

  • dōTERRA™ Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade™ essential oils (I LOVE these oils)
  • Beeyoutiful Essential Oils (a great cost-effective brand of pure oils — the Beginner Basics Essential Oil Pack is perfect for anyone just starting on the essential oils journey!)
  • Mountain Rose Herbs…they have a the best, most complete selection of pure, organic oils

–Starwest Botanicals and The Bulk Herb Store also carries many of these ingredients if you’d like to price check.

–Health doesn’t come from plastic bottles. Vitality grows naturally from the way you live your life. If you want to learn more about herbs as medicine and as food, and if you’re just too busy to enroll in an in-person program, join the Herbal Academy of New England for a comprehensive and convenient online herbal course you can complete anywhere and anytime!

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  1. Great idea! I love raw honey and already use it for my hair and skin check out these great uses I found on this site (www.benefitsrawhoney.com)

  2. Speaking of your arsenal of elderberries … what do you do with them dried berries after you have strained them from a tincture, say … can you refill the bottle with Vodka much like you do Vanilla when it is low? Can you keep reusing the berries ’til they have no color? I hate to just compost them …
    Thanks, in advance … Isa

  3. I normally use this honey for my skin by mixing it with coconut oil. As I have always had so many issues with my sensitive skin and thus I normally prefer natural products and this honey has some antibacterial and antimicrobial properties that clean my skin well and heal damages caused due to acne and scarring.

  4. Is it safe to ingest EO? I always thought that since you couldnt use them undiluted on your skin that there was a health risk to eating them. I googled the question and it looks as if the feedback is mixed and I didnt see any scientific studies about the safety.

    • Indio, the highly respected, and leader in the field of aromatherapy, Robert Tisserand, wrote: “Oral administration is more likely to lead to systemic toxicity problems than application to the skin, since a greater concentration (about 10 times as much) is likely to reach the bloodstream.” Additionally, Tisserand stated, “It is our recommendation that essential oils should only be prescribed orally, for therapeutic purposes, by primary care practitioners such as medical doctors and medical herbalists.”

      “Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade™” is a patented “word mark” – the term therapeutic grade is a marketing term.

      That being said, it’s my understanding that most DT oils are labeled as supplements. DT claims to be GRAS; although the labeling does not disclose the standard information found on pure essential oils, such as country of origin, and they do not disclose full testing results.

      • Thanks for the details, Stephanie. Since it is so hard to know the source of a health related problem, I will abstain from ingesting EOs. My bees make the tastiest honey so I won’t stop eating that, but I won’t mix any EOs into it. I’ve made herbal infusions with the honey, such as thyme. It might be healthier to do an infused honey with cinnamon rather than putting the EO into it.

  5. Thank you, Stephanie, for educating the public on this very controversial subject. Robert Tisserand has spent his whole life studying essential oil safety and I think more people need to know that internal use of essential oils should only be done under the direction of a Clinically Certified Aromatherapist or as mentioned, a medical doctor or medical herbalist. Essential oils are chemicals and the body needs to detoxify them when ingested. This process becomes more involved than when applying essential oils to the skin. On another note, there are essential oils that can be ingested but more knowledge and education should precede their use or recommendation by non-qualified persons.

  6. Your recipe using Honey, Herbs & spices is great & I will give it a try. Something I also do when I feel a cold/flu coming on is make an Organic Herbal Tea & add lots of Honey & Lemon. I make this as many times a day as it feels necessary and it really helps my congestion & coughing and I find the cold goes away much faster. Also just taking a Tablespoon of Honey to sooth a raw, irritated throat is always helpful.

  7. We make something very similar–sliced lemons and shredded ginger infused into the honey, along with some elderberry (which turns the “syrup” a lovely shade of purple). omg it’s so good!

    Also–“dark” honey offers a stronger boost of antioxidants to help fight colds and flu.