The unique combination of cranberries with honey will help to cope not only with "seasonal" colds, but also with some other diseases - from liver problems to bladder inflammation. For this drink to be beneficial, it must be properly prepared and applied.
Useful properties of cranberries and honey
The healing properties of both cranberries and honey have been known for a long time. Cranberries, growing in the northern regions, have been used as an excellent remedy for vitamin deficiency and helped to survive the long winter without suffering from lack of vitamins. And its amazing ability to increase immunity was used both in the treatment of diseases and for their prevention.
The use of this berry stimulates metabolic processes in the body, improving the absorption of food and preventing the accumulation of fat reserves. It contains a lot of vitamin C, which helps to cope with any cold. In addition, the high content of naturally occurring biologically active substances and mineral salts makes cranberries one of the most useful wild berries. It is a natural source of flavonoids: anthocyanins, catechins, lecoanthocyanins. Cranberries are distinguished by a high content of manganese, iron, aluminum, zinc; they contain salts of phosphorus, potassium, sodium.
Honey is no less famous for its miraculous properties, which was also used as a tonic and anti-cold remedy. Therefore, there is no doubt about the benefits of mashed cranberries mixed with honey. The traditional proportion of honey and cranberries for this mixture is 1: 1. It can be used for different purposes.
What and how can you use cranberries with honey?
To increase immunity and to stimulate metabolic processes in the body, every morning on an empty stomach, half an hour before breakfast, you need to drink a glass of water in small sips, eating it with a tablespoon of cranberries with honey. It is important that the process is unhurried, and the water is at room temperature, clean and raw, preferably from a natural source. Listen to every sip and feel how your body and all its internal organs wake up, how amicably and harmoniously they begin their daily work. Enjoy the honey cranberry flavor. For the treatment of coughs and colds, after meals, drink warm tea with this magic mixture, eating 1-2 tablespoons of cranberries with sugar at a time. The tea should not be very hot, since the biologically active substances contained in honey are destroyed at temperatures above 40 ° C.
An excellent tool with which you can cleanse the vessels will be cranberries with honey with the addition of garlic, ground in a blender or finely grated on a grater. A glass of cranberries with honey will require 2-3 cloves of garlic. This mixture should be taken 1 teaspoon at night, but it should not be washed down with water. The duration of one course is a month, the frequency is one year.
It is worth remembering that cranberry with honey is a medicine and should not be abused, especially for those who have gastritis and stomach ulcers, have increased acidity, and also for those who suffer from duodenal ulcers. Sulfonamide preparations should not be taken with this remedy.
