CLASSIC CINNAMON HONEY
Do you want to keep your heart healthy? Have you ever tried tasting cinnamon with honey? It’s really amazing to know the health benefits of cinnamon with honey.
HONEY
Honey is the most popular and largely used flavoring with boundless health benefits. Honey called as madhu in Ayurvedic documentation is used for preparing various ayurvedic medicine.
Honey contains flavonoids, enzymes, amino acids, vitamin B, vitamin C and minerals.
BENEFITS OF HONEY
GOOD FOR SKIN
Honey promotes your skin texture making it radiant and clear.
GOOD HEALING PROPERTIES
The anti bacterial and anti inflammatory effects in honey nurture the tissues and act as a good healer.
CONTROLS COUGH
The antibacterial properties in honey can be used for treating dry cough and reducing throat irritation.
CONTROLS CHOLESTEROL
Studies have proved that natural (pure) honey is good source to control high cholesterol. It helps in raising good HDL cholesterol.
WEIGHT LOSS
Taking a spoonful of honey with warm water would help you in your weight loss.
GOOD SLEEP
Having a good sleep and rest helps to combat various disease. Taking honey with warm milk promotes you with good sleep. Diabetes should seek proper medical advice in taking honey.
CINNAMON
Cinnamon is a spice made from the inner bark of trees scientifically known as Cinnamomum. Cinnamom is a popular spice with pleasant aroma used in cooking various food.
BENEFITS OF CINNAMON
RICH IN ANTIOXIDANTS
The polyphenol antioxidant present in cinnamon can help protect the body from various diseases.
REDUCES THE RISK OF HEART DISEASE
Studies have proved that taking just 120 mg of cinnamon a day reduces bad cholesterol levels in your body.
LOWER BLOOD SUGAR LEVEL
Cinnamon is popular for its blood sugar controlling properties. Taking 1- 5 grams of cinnamon per day have been proved to reduce the blood sugar level.
PROTECTS AGAINST CANCER
Cinnamon reduces the growth of cancer cells and formation of blood vessels in tumors.
HONEY CINNAMON COMBO
Honey and cinnamon combo increases the medicinal value of them. Honey and cinnamon are popular aroma used in recipes of oatmeal, tea, etc.
Honey and Cinnamon combo have the following health benefits…
· They are used to reduce toothaches.
· They aid in weight loss
· They are good for treating Arthritis
· They prevent heart related diseases by reducing bad cholesterol and increasing good cholesterol level.
· They boost up the immune system of our body
· They help us to keep our body blood sugar level in check.
· They are used to treat common cold and cough.
· They are used to treat skin infection.
HOW TO USE
CINNAMON HONEY WATER
1. In a cup of water add half a teaspoon of cinnamon and let it boil for 5 minutes. Then allow it to cool and add one teaspoon of honey in it. Stir it and drink.
FACE MASK
2. Mix 1 tablespoon honey, 1 teaspoon cinnamon and 1 teaspoon nutmeg as a paste and wear it as a face mask for 20 minutes. Wash it with warm water and works great for skin.
CINNAMON HONEY MIX
3. Taking honey and cinnamon paste in an empty stomach minimum five days a week reduces high cholesterol and prevents you from heart disease.
It is best to take cinnamon honey water mix on an empty stomach in the morning.
You can also have a cup of cinnamon honey water before and between your meals can save from snacking after your meals.
THE BOTTOM LINE
It is good to use high quality unfiltered honey and Ceylon cinnamon to get the optimum benefits. It is also proved that regular use of honey build up the white blood corpuscles to fight bacterial and viral infections. It is advised to have a proper medical opinion if you take medication for a particular disease.