My sister is a thousand miles of osmanthus fragrance, and my brother is a bee who comes thousands of miles.
The bees see the flowers turn around, and the flowers see the bees blooming.
—— Zhuang folk songs
【Folk Song Appreciation】
Reflecting love in folk songs is an artistic technique of the people, and many ethnic groups on the mainland have the custom of using folk songs as a medium to talk about love. It originated very early, at least in the time of the Book of Songs. In the "Book of Songs", there are many contents that reflect the free interaction between men and women, and use folk songs to ask and answer to pour out love, such as "Yang of the East Gate", "Qinwei", "Jingnu", "Wanqiu" and other chapters are basically the expression of this content. In the Zhuang folk songs, the love between men and women is compared to the relationship between bees and flowers, which is not only the inseparable love between men and women, but also vividly and vividly reflects the personality characteristics of men and women during the love period. "Bees see flowers and flowers" is a language derived from life, reflecting the basic fact that bees work hard and collect flowers to make nectar.
【Health Topics】
In people's minds, silkworms and bees are representatives of selfless dedication and are objects of admiration. "Hard work is like a silkworm into a cocoon, and the cocoon grows old into a silkworm and dies. It is like picking flowers and bees to make honey, and the sweetness is harvested in the end. ("Xing Shi Hengyan") as a silkworm, as a bee to make honey, for him as a person, and then after death.
▲ Honey in the eyes of Chinese
The contribution of the bee to human beings is thorough, its body, its nest, and the fruits of its labor, honey, are all medicines or nutritious food that people use to cure diseases, maintain health, or obtain nutrients. Even bee venom, the poison it secretes, can be a helper to human health if used properly. Of course, the most acceptable thing is the sweet and delicious honey. It has a long history in the mainland as a medicine for the prevention and treatment of diseases. In the ancient "Shennong's Materia Medica", there is a record of its function of "soothing the deficiencies of the five internal organs, invigorating qi and replenishing the middle, relieving pain and detoxifying, removing all kinds of diseases, and hundreds of medicines". Li Shizhen, a pharmacist in the Ming Dynasty, further summarized it from six aspects: "It is cold when it is born, so it can clear heat; Cooked is warm, so it can be supplemented; Willing and peaceful, so it can detoxify; Soft and moist, so it can moisten dry; Slow can go to the emergency, so it can stop the pain of the heart, muscles, sores; and can cause the medium, so it can reconcile hundreds of medicines and work with licorice". Clinically, honey can be directly used as a medicine for internal and external application, or as a solid agent for pills or refined into ointment, so as to be used for the treatment of different diseases. It is recognized that its main functions are to tonify, moisturize, relieve pain, detoxify, and have a definite effect on the treatment of dry cough, intestinal dryness, constipation, stomach pain, aphthous ulcers, nasal abyss, water and fire burns, etc. Honey is also a good medicine for the treatment of periodontal disease, and its antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and pain-relieving effects are very obvious, which is completely consistent with the understanding of traditional Chinese medicine.
There is a misconception that all sweets are the cause of tooth decay, and it seems that the blow is too big, at least it is unfair to honey. According to the fact that honey contains high-quality and sufficient amounts of acetylcholine, high-quality protein, multivitamins, insulin, royal jelly and other active ingredients, Chinese nutrition experts have summarized eight functions of royal jelly: regulating nerve function and preventing cardiovascular diseases; Nourish the internal organs and prevent cell lesions; Improve blood quality and disease resistance; It has a therapeutic or adjuvant effect on rheumatoid arthritis; It has a special effect on diabetes; Regulates human hormones, treats menopausal diseases and prostate inflammation; Increase appetite, grow spirit, moisturize complexion, anti-aging; Promote the recovery of brain cells, enhance intellectual development, etc.
▲ Honey in the eyes of foreigners
The development and application of honey and its related products are also very active abroad, involving all aspects of health care and nutrition, treatment and treatment.
Turkish researchers have discovered that honey has anti-cancer effects, and this experiment has been successful in mice. The researchers applied honey to tiny wounds left by laparoscopic surgery in mice, effectively preventing the spread of cancer cells.
Chemists in New Zealand have proposed that honey has a protective effect on teeth, and they have found that honey contains a special enzyme that produces an oxidized water that not only inhibits the growth of bacteria that cause tooth decay, but also reduces the amount of acids.
Experts in the United States have found a basis for using honey to detoxify alcohol, and they believe that a kind of fructose contained in honey can promote the decomposition and absorption of alcohol, so it has the effect of quickly sobering up. Drinking some honey before and after drinking alcohol or eating a few biscuits and bread containing honey is beneficial to the body, and headaches rarely occur after drinking. It is also possible to mix honey with lemon and tea, but it mainly acts on honey.
Japanese experts first selected honey in weight loss research, and they found that honey is used as a sterilization and antidote on the one hand, which helps to discharge toxins from the body, so as to improve the body's metabolic function; On the one hand, as a special nutrient that burns the body's energy, it can eliminate the accumulation of excess fat in the body. Oral honey is used to lose weight, which is generally effective after 3 days, and can also solve the symptoms of constipation and anxiety. A 41-year-old housewife in Fukushima Prefecture lost weight by losing weight by 34% and 7 kilograms in six months.
Russian scholars have studied the medical effects of propolis and proved that it is rich in flavonoids, which have a variety of functions such as purifying blood, strengthening cell membranes, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, hemostasis, etc., and is not only a good medicine for treating fever, vomiting, diarrhea and various swelling and pain, but also a scavenger of blood vessels.
Centenarians in the Caucasus, mostly beekeepers, are associated with their long-term consumption of the residues from hives containing a certain amount of propolis.
Bee Legends
The weapon of bee stinging is bee venom, which is a complex mixture containing hundreds of organic compounds, which has two-way regulation and antibacterial, antihypertensive, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, anti-radiation and cytotoxic effects on the nervous system, blood system, respiratory system, endocrine system, rheumatism and rheumatoid arthritis, hypertension, angina, atherosclerosis, thromboangiitis obliterans, bronchitis and bronchial asthma, trigeminal neuralgia, sciatica, migraine, lupus erythematosus, psoriasis, Treatment of Behcet's disease and other diseases is effective.
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