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NASAL CONGESTION - Place a dessertspoon of honey in a basin of water and inhale fumes after covering your head with a towel over the basin. Very effective!

This works with or without honey, the active factor is the steam, honey would simply make it smell nice and sweet while you inhale steam

HAIR CONDITIONER - Mix honey with an equal quantity of olive oil, cover head with a warm tower for half an hour then shampoo off. Feeds hair and scalp. Your hair will never look or feel better!

that sounds like a real mess, honestly. Greasy AND sticky? I'd honestly prefer mud

FOOD PRESERVATIVE – If you replace the sugar in cake and cookie recipes with honey, they'll stay fresher longer due to honey's natural antibacterial properties. Reduce liquids in the mixture by about one-fifth to allow for the moisture present in the in honey.

honey's antibacterial properties relate to its low water content and high concentration of solutes that are hostile to single-cell organisms, this becomes entirely void after you've used the honey to bake or such, as you've completely changed that

MIGRAINE - Use a dessertspoon of honey dissolved in half a glass of warm water. Sip at the start of a migraine attack, and, if necessary, repeat after another 20 minutes.

I doubt the efficacy of honey to alleviate a true migraine, something prescription medications had at one point struggled greatly to even lessen the symptoms of

Kelly Joyce Neff has an interdisciplinary degree in Celtic Studies which includes work in cultural anthropology, history, linguistics, language, and literature. She is a traditional midwife and herbalist, a reiki master, and an active craftsperson. She lives in San Francisco.

I'd let a philosophy major work on my car long before I'd run to what is essentially an anthropologist for pharmacological advice

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Ahimsa said:

What is PROZAC supposed to do? They say it makes you happy!

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