Re: Honey vs Maple Syrup

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Anne Bird wrote:

> I began to think that maple syrup instead of RAW unfiltered honey was a

> regional choice. I read somewhere that Dr. said something

> like bees go out and collect pollen and then regurate it...arg! That is

> enough to turn anyboidy off of honey - but not me. I guessed that he

> was from the northern US - so, I looked up his Bio and he was born in

> Utah. I also have a very good friend and tried to convenice her that

> she should use RAW honey and she said I am from Mass. and we in the

> north believe that Maple Syrup is better than Honey.

>

> I am from below the mason-Dixon line and grew up eating honey...not

> maple syrup. I remember as a child being given maple sugar candy and

> thought how yucky tasting it was. I have done the cleanse with maple

> syrup and I do not like it at all. I want to try using the Master

> Cleanse or Lemonade diet with honey instead.

>

> Dr. mentions several times how healing honey is used

> externally (not sure if he said RAW). For instances he mentioned burns

> and cuts..I know for sure myself that if you burn your fingers or any

> part if you put raw honey on the burn immediately, it takes the pain

> away and there is no blistering or scarring afterwards. I have used RAW

> honey on paper cuts myself and it immediately stops the pain. I have

> used Raw unfiltered honey on bad wounds on my dogs (in places where they

> can not lick it off) and the healing is really good and fast with no

> antibiotics needed.

>

> Maple syrup is a cooked product. RAW unfiltered honey is not cooked and

> still retains all of the good enzymes, vitamins and minerals. Propolis

> is a product that the bees make to repair their hives. I always keep

> propolis tincture here for insect bites. One drop directly on a wasp or

> other flying insect sting takes the pain away immediately. It is amazing

> stuff.

>

> So, to conclude this message, Yes, Suzi, do some more research on RAW

> Unfiltered Honey...not the junky cooked honey in the grocery stores.

>

> There are many uses for Raw honey - mixed with Raw ACV is a great cough

> syrup. I can think of many other uses too.

> http://www.reallyrawhoney.com/healthfacts.php

>

> Anne

> VA USA

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Hi Anne,

I do believe that maple syrup was and still is to an extent a regional

specific choice. However, folks would have been much better off if they

had stuck to the original Native American way of making it. Of course

they should not have heated it at all. Just simply sun evaporation would

have given them a wonderful syrup with all the vitamins, minerals and

enzymes intact. ** The Native Americans were the first to recognize the

sap as a source of energy and nutrition. They would use their tomahawks

to make V-shaped incisions in the trees. Then, they would insert reeds

or concave pieces of bark to run the sap into buckets made from birch

bark. Due to the lack of proper equipment, the sap was slightly

concentrated either by throwing hot stones in the bucket, or by leaving

it overnight and disposing with the layer of ice out which had formed on

top. It was drunk as a sweet drink or used in cooking.

Raw honey is very good and easy to come by.

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