Chestnut honey is a rare, unusual variety that is rarely marketed. However, he deserves to be given credit for his unique beneficial properties. Being a truly healing product, it has a positive effect on the human body, and its composition has exceptional characteristics.
What is so useful chestnut honey? Like linden and mastic, it has a bactericidal effect. Wound healing, toning, vessel strengthening and immunostimulating properties of chestnut honey put it on the same level with medical devices and preparations.
Chestnut honey has undoubted beneficial properties, but it also has contraindications: bee products intolerance and individual allergic reactions.
Did you know? According to an ancient Roman legend, the nymph Nea turned into a chestnut tree, driven to despair by the unequivocal harassment of the god Jupiter.
Taste and appearance
The taste of chestnut honey is memorable, tart with a specific bitterness - the hallmark of this variety. In taste it can not be confused with any other, it is distinguished by a sweet, sharp taste and a barely noticeable light aroma.
Did you know? Due to the low crystallisation capacity, honey obtained from chestnut seed, beekeepers can leave the bees to feed.Many factors influence the taste:
- Type of honey-tree from which nectar is collected.
- Region location apiary.
- Weather conditions during the collection of honey: in sunny weather, it is more concentrated.
Did you know? Some compare the taste of chestnut honey with the taste of oak table top.If you intend to use honey for food, it is allowed to heat it to eliminate bitterness. For medicinal needs, heat treatment of the product is contraindicated, since the beneficial substances that are part of it can be destroyed.
Chestnut honey is of two types, depending on the type of honey tree:- The product obtained from horse chestnut, a transparent, astringent, astringent taste with bitterness, is liquid, but quickly crystallizes.
- From a chestnut seed, they get a dark-colored product that allows for a reddish tint, a pronounced bitter, astringent, astringent taste, very liquid and crystallizing very slowly — more than a year.
Important! Because of their taste, beekeepers consider it a low-grade product, but its healing properties are so high that both the complexity of the harvest and the high cost of chestnut honey are justified.
How to get honey from chestnuts
It is mined in small quantities for the following reasons:
- The small number of forest chestnut massifs.
- Short flowering period of honey plant.
- The complexity of transporting the apiary to the mountains, where the honey plant grows - chestnut seed.
- High probability that the bees will bring bribes from other sources, thereby diluting the pure product.
Unfortunately, it is very difficult to determine its quality by eye, therefore it is desirable to use a valuable product, being confident in its origin and honesty of the seller.Chemical composition
Despite its low-grade taste and appearance, chestnut honey has a very valuable chemical composition that makes it a healing product, and consists of:
- Water - not less than 21%.
- Carbohydrates - glucose, fructose, sucrose, poly-and disaccharides.
- Protein substances - enzymes, nitrogenous substances and free amino acids.
Important! This component stimulates metabolic processes, accelerates biochemical reactions and reduces cholesterol levels.
- Mineral substances: calcium, potassium, iron, magnesium, sodium, fluorine, copper, zinc, phosphorus - a total of about 30 trace elements.
- Vitamins - C, K, E, PP, vitamin B groups.
- Phytoncides, flavonoids, lipids, alkaloids and other aromatic substances.
The composition of the product may vary slightly depending on such factors:- The composition of the soil.
- Weather.
- Productivity
- Breed bees.
Beneficial features
Ingested chestnut nectar, which has low acidity and does not irritate the stomach walls, is absorbed by the body in full. Pollen in its composition is small, so in some cases it can be consumed even by allergies and children.
Did you know? The healing properties of honey from chestnut wood are known since the times of ancient Rome.
Chestnut honey has beneficial properties that are recommended to be studied before taking it for medical purposes.- Bactericidal action This natural antiseptic substance has both in internal use (colds, sore throats, etc.) and in external use (purulent wounds).
- Anti-inflammatory effect during inflammation of the mucous membranes of the oral cavity, the entire gastrointestinal tract, urinary system, respiratory organs, and skin areas.
- Immunostimulating action helps to cope with diseases and strengthen health as a prophylactic.
- Secretory action promotes the flow of bile and eliminate stagnant processes.
- Antioxidant action helps to remove toxins, heavy metals, toxins and even radionuclides.
- Vascular strengthening action It has a beneficial effect on blood vessels and the heart, the blood circulatory system as a whole.
Honey is far from the only value that a person receives due to bees. A beehive is a whole factory where various products are produced: bee bread, propolis, royal jelly, bee venom.
The use of chestnut honey in traditional medicine
For medicinal purposes, chestnut honey is taken in the amount of 100 g per day for 3-4 doses. This way they treat colds, viral diseases, flu, stomach ulcers, gastritis, inflammation of the liver. 
Preventive dose - 60 g daily, children are recommended to halve.
Important! Sufferers with diabetes may under medical supervision use 1 tbsp. l (30 g) funds per day. If the glucose level rises, it is immediately canceled.To whom and in what cases it is recommended to take this unique tool.
Diseases of the digestive organs
Act:
- normalization of digestion;
- increased appetite;
- eliminating nausea, heartburn, belching, upset stools, heaviness and pain in the stomach;
- stimulation of the secretory function.
- chronic stomach ulcer;
- gastritis with high acidity;
- liver disease;
- pancreatic diseases;
- spleen disease.
Respiratory diseasesAct:
- anti-inflammatory;
- antitussive;
- mucolytic;
- immunostimulating.
- ARVI;
- tonsillitis;
- flu;
- angina;
- pharyngitis;
- pneumonia.
Diseases of the nervous systemAct:
- nutrition of all cells of the nervous system;
- increase the body's adaptation in stressful situations;
- relieving fatigue;
- adding strength and vigor.
Act:
- positive effect on the cardiovascular system;
- blood circulation improvement;
- strengthening the walls of blood vessels;
- stimulation of antithrombin production.
Diseases for which use is recommended;- varicose veins;
- hemorrhoids;
- thrombophlebitis;
- atherosclerosis;
- hypertension.
Chestnut honey is recommended for diabetics, it contains large amounts of carbohydrates, and fructose, which constitutes a large part of them, does not use insulin for splitting.
In case of diabetes, doctors advise to include in the diet also: blueberries, blueberries, cornels, nuts, tomatoes, broccoli.This tool can be used only with the permission and under the supervision of a physician, since official medicine does not support the opinion that chestnut honey is allowed for diabetics.
For men This product, like other bitter varieties of honey, is useful because:- increases potency;
- normalizes blood circulation;
- relieves inflammation of the prostate gland;
- helps with pain and swelling.
For women it is shown as a tonic in the period of menopause and in front of it, in addition, it has a stimulating effect on the metabolism, benefits the nervous and other systems, has a normalizing effect on the hormonal balance.
For kids The remedy is indicated for coughs and colds, for immunity strengthening and prophylaxis. It should be said that children do not like the taste and smell of the “medicine” very much, so they reluctantly take it. 
For skin It is useful to add a product to a face mask. It strengthens and nourishes, has a disinfecting and cleansing effect, contributes to the removal of inflammation in acne. The scalp will also gratefully respond to the addition of this tool in the mask.
Several recipes for medicines that include chestnut honey:
- From cough. Stir in a glass of warm (not hot!) Milk 1 tablespoon of the product. To drink in small sips.
- From cough with radish. Make a well in a medium sized radish, put 2 teaspoons of the product into it. Take the resulting juice in a tablespoon every 2 hours.
- To rinse. Mix 10 parts of water with 1 part of honey, stir, rinse your mouth, throat.
- For the treatment of wounds using a concentrated solution of 1: 1.
- For boils - 1: 2;
- For burns - 1: 5.
- For the treatment of gastric ulcers. Mix 200 g of walnuts minced with 200 g of ghee and chestnut honey thoroughly. Take three times a day half an hour before meals and 1 tablespoon.
How to distinguish a fake?
Chestnut honey with no additional impurities is very difficult to find, but this is not bird's milk, and it is not rarely available for sale, only how to determine a fake from a real curative?
Important! It is believed that on the Black Sea coast, where it is mined, it is likely to buy a genuine product. Its taste, color and consistency are so specific that once you try it, you will never be confused with anything.Through some manipulations, you can determine the magic nectar in front of you or shameless fake.
- The specific bitterness in this product goes away when it is heated to 50 ° C, in a forged one it remains, which indicates the presence of burnt sugar.
- This is not sugared for a year or more.
- If iodine is dropped into a small amount of the product, and a brown precipitate falls out and a white color appears, it means that starch is present in the substance.
- At ignition the fake will light up in the presence of sugar in the composition.
- A chemical pencil will leave a mark on a thin layer of honey spread on your hand, if there is water in it, that is, sugar syrup with pollen.
Contraindications
There is no magic panacea, if a certain remedy has a healing effect, then for a certain percentage of the consumer its action may turn out to be opposite.
This is especially true for honey and other beekeeping products - too many people suffering from all sorts of allergies can react negatively even to this means, which less than the others includes components that can cause a reaction. So before it is consumed, it does not hurt to conduct an allergic test, causing a small amount of the product to the skin in the crook of the elbow.
With great care, with the consent of the doctor and under his supervision, you can try to apply this tool to patients suffering from diabetes. 
During the exacerbation of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract is to refrain from its use. Its effects on pregnant and lactating have not been studied, since these categories are not subjected to any research. Children should give it with caution, however, they themselves do not really like to eat it.
Chestnut honey is a unique tool created by nature. It is a natural antibiotic, a strong antioxidant, a natural immunostimulant, has a positive effect on patients with gastric ulcers, gastritis, varicose veins, atherosclerosis. It has blood purifying properties, strengthening vessels, toning veins, healing burns and wounds.
