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The best treatment for flue? Manuka honey can help you here!

what is the best treatment for flue

Manuka honey fights influenza virus. It’s efficient and has zero side-effects. It’s hard to find the best treatment. Flue virus is mutating all the time and synthetic drugs can’t keep up. But a combination of natural products (even with some drugs to ease severe symptoms like fever) can be the right choice. Fall has come with its ugly winds, low temperatures, colds and flue. The season of viruses. Their world. Influenza viruses are a serious threat to human health and cause thousands… Read More

Fake manuka honey? Here are the true markers of genuine New Zealand Manuka honey!

The true markers of genuine New Zealand Manuka honey have been recently issued by Nz’s government and they are different than the ones currently used. We need to be sure the producer complies with the new regulations. Somebody told me the other day that manuka honey was real if it had MGO (methylglyoxal). This is false. Not all manuka honey contains MGO. MGO is not a marker of manuka honey, it is a marker of therapeutic manuka honey. But before… Read More

Acacia mangium honey, made from a real acacia tree

what is acacia mangium honey

Acacia honey is very well known worldwide. But the term can be deceiving (just as tea tree is). European Acacia honey is a different product than the acacia honey made in Malaysia. In the US it is known as black locust honey or American acacia honey and in Europe as simply acacia honey but this is actually made from a false acacia, from a tree also known as black locust, on its scientific name “Robinia pseudoacacia”. Real acacia honey from an acacia tree… Read More