The Best Homemade Remedy for a Cough and a Sore Throat ~ Dr. Eric Berg

So even though it is a sugar, it's 70% fructose and 30% glucose.

Okay.

It can affect your blood sugars.

It has a lot of other things in it that can actually help you for various things, which I'm going to go through.

There's some massive research on this type of honey.

I'm going to put all the links down below, but in one study, it worked better than an antibiotic and certain medications for coughing.

And so just to clarify, it's not the fructose or the glucose that's creating the positive effect.

It's all the other amazing chemicals that these little bees go out and extract from flowers and bring back to the beehive, specifically the Manuka bush, which has some amazing, amazing vital chemicals.

Manuka honey has been shown to decrease the symptom of a sore throat.

It has positive benefits for burns, all types of burns.

It's great for wound healing as well as ulcers like in bed sores.

In fact, it's an approved FDA treatment for both wound healing and bed sores.

Apparently, some of these natural chemicals in honey release oxygen from your hemoglobin and speed up the healing process.

It has anti-allergy effects, anti-inflammatory effects.

It can inhibit an upper respiratory tract infection.

It has anti-thrombotic effects, which help reduce clotting.

It has major beneficial immune effects.

It also inhibits a strep bacterial infection, as well as showing positive benefits for gingivitis and periodontal disease.

Even though it's a sugar, it does not cause cavity.

In fact, it can reduce plaquing.

And again, I'm not recommending this as part of your diet because it has a lot of sugar in it.

But for coughs and a sore throat, you might want to try this.