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pansypoo53219

(21,724 posts)
Tue Mar 15, 2022, 05:33 PM Mar 2022

hay fever is coming + i found a good natural remedy. fing some LOCAL WILDFLOWER honey.

my WI worked for a few days in TX. but it does not fix sinus headaches, but i found a easy cure for that. inhale some pepper + sneeze. bad one? sneeze more.

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hay fever is coming + i found a good natural remedy. fing some LOCAL WILDFLOWER honey. (Original Post) pansypoo53219 Mar 2022 OP
If you like honey, by all means eat it Warpy Mar 2022 #1
it helped me + it started w/ clover honey. wildflower honey strong. pansypoo53219 Mar 2022 #2
There is a minor benefit for some people, but only if Warpy Mar 2022 #3
get mine from local farmer's market. used to have bad hay fever. opp side effects to the main drug. pansypoo53219 Mar 2022 #4

Warpy

(113,130 posts)
1. If you like honey, by all means eat it
Tue Mar 15, 2022, 11:05 PM
Mar 2022

but it has no proven benefit against seasonal allergy. Neither does locally gathered bee pollen, something I actually prefer to honey.

I wish allergies were that simple. They're not.

Moving to NM helped.

pansypoo53219

(21,724 posts)
2. it helped me + it started w/ clover honey. wildflower honey strong.
Fri Mar 18, 2022, 12:53 AM
Mar 2022

i am dojng extra strong tea for other stuff. ts of honey + seasonal citrus. grapefruit my fav. or raspberry. my cousin got rid of his going caveman diet.

Warpy

(113,130 posts)
3. There is a minor benefit for some people, but only if
Fri Mar 18, 2022, 11:51 AM
Mar 2022

people also take antihistamines. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6074882/

One of the major problems is that you don't know when the honey was stripped from the hive, it could be a time when the bees weren't gathering nectar from what you're allergic to, one reason I thought that pollen might be more effective in my case (eyes swollen shut, I was desperate). No dice. It has a somewhat shorter shelf life than honey, we kept it refrigerated.

Avoiding upstate NY in the fall was one strategy. Living on the coast with daily sea breezes was another. Eventually, moving to NM did the trick, desert allergies are much milder. I had to take the geographical cure. If honey works for you, good for you. It did nothing for me, antihistamines or not.

This old chestnut is like a lot of herbal, vitamin, and other health food curatives, it's fine for mild illness and won't harm you. It just doesn't work for everyone.

If you have a favorite health food store, look for the pollen. A teasponnful is a nice snack--sweet, nutty, crunchy and with a flavor all its own. Since honey is your cure, this might be even better.

pansypoo53219

(21,724 posts)
4. get mine from local farmer's market. used to have bad hay fever. opp side effects to the main drug.
Fri Mar 18, 2022, 07:26 PM
Mar 2022

the meth hoops, so finding honey made me happy. then i am using it for cholesterol issue. easier than making bean soups. wait. the tea for cholesterol. honey for hay fever. my frozen tea melts faster w/ honey in it.

i like really cold or hot.

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