Is it true that eating local honey will help to alleviate hay fever?
It is thought that eating honey from within 5 kilometres of where you spend the greater part of your day, has a beneficial effect on the symptoms of hay fever. Q9) What do bees do for us? A) Bees are the only insect which provides us with food (honey) and bees perform approximately 80% of all crop pollination. One third of our food is produced through pollination. Honey has been used for thousands of years as a topical dressing for wounds since microbes (germs) can not live in it. The venom from honey bees is used to treat a variety of ailments. Honey and the other products from the hive which are important to us such as pollen, royal jelly, propolis and beeswax, are used in the health food and cosmetics industries. Q10) How long have people been keeping bees? A)Beekeeping was practised in ancient Egypt as early as 2500 BC and cave paintings which show beekeeping have been found in Spain and date from 7000 BC. Honey produces hydrogen peroxide and has even been used to embalm bodies suc
