“Mela” results is the honeydew coming from oaks, a honey in a very dark almost black color, smell and taste of malt very sweet, really suitable to combat anemia by its high iron content. By clicking on the image you’ll see a presentation about the oak “mela” in pictures.
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Bee honeycomb
This is a honeycomb of a beehive, that honey bees have just stretch to fill with honey that are collecting and do not get time to eat, is the pantry where the bees store their spare to spend in winter time. The contribution of honey is now much higher than what the colony can spend, so that the entire surplus store it for when there is abundance.
Keys to enjoy a good honey
To buy honey
Directly acquire honey to the beekeeper. Besides getting to know these curious characters, you can ask them about the natural environment where the honey came from and give you some advice about their properties. The organic certification is a guarantee, always when it is checked by a certifying body.
Make sure that label includes a sanitary registration, this guarantee the absence of pesticides, herbicides or not authorized treatment on the apiary.
You must find out if the honey comes from the last harvest, so you can enjoy all the properties of honey (overheating in the packaging process or old honey lost many of its properties, and you will just take sugars).
The pack containing honey should be made of glass or ceramic without paint.
Do not be fooled with those products that contain the word honey. Some are sugars whose source is not an apiary, such as cane sugar, of unknown origin and subjected to processes that make no more value than the sweetener. The EU makes it very clear in its legislation that can only be called the honey from the apiary.
Make sure that label includes a sanitary registration, this guarantee the absence of pesticides, herbicides or not authorized treatment on the apiary.
You must find out if the honey comes from the last harvest, so you can enjoy all the properties of honey (overheating in the packaging process or old honey lost many of its properties, and you will just take sugars).
The pack containing honey should be made of glass or ceramic without paint.
Do not be fooled with those products that contain the word honey. Some are sugars whose source is not an apiary, such as cane sugar, of unknown origin and subjected to processes that make no more value than the sweetener. The EU makes it very clear in its legislation that can only be called the honey from the apiary.
Once the honey is at home
Keep in dark, dry place and tightly closed. This will prevent fermentation. Do not mix the remains of honey, so you can enjoy all their flavours.
Take advantage of the wide variety of mono-flower honeys we have, each with distinctive tastes and properties, it’s better to consume the diversity of mono-flower ones.
Use proper utensils for honey: dry and free of any other food.
Preferably, do not heat honey. Use those creamy honeys that do not crystallized.
Eat your honey in the first 6 months after collected.
Queen Bee in the Human History
Bees have always been a symbol of divinity and after all a monarchy symbol. The queen bee which everyone served to, was seen at the Neolithic as an epiphany of the same Goddess.
- It seems that this cult of the bee was extended to the islands of Crete in the Aegean and the Greek mainland. The mythology realizes that Jupiter in its childhood was fed with honey brought by Melisa, the daughter of a Cretan king, to a cave where they had hidden the child. The stamp of a gold ring (1450 BC) in a tomb located in Isopata near Knossos, shows the relationship between the Goddess and priestesses with the queen bees and their pawns, performing a dance. This ring was found in a tomb, probably because the bee in Crete was considered life emerging from death. In the stamp appears the Goddess bee in the middle, coming to Earth with snakes and among the lilies, being adored by her priestesses.
Honey was used to embalm the dead, and also played a central part in the new year rituals of the Minoan culture. The new year began in the Cretan summer solstice, when the heat was at its peak, and July 20 was the day when the big star Sirius rose in conjunction with the Sun, also in Sumeria and Egypt. In these two countries Sirius was explicitly called “the star of the Goddess” (Innanen in Sumer, Egypt and Isis), and temples, palaces on Crete were geared to this star. The rise of Sirius ended a 40-day ritual during which it was obtained honey from the hives of bees in the darkness of caves and forests. Honey was made mead by fermenting it to be drunk as an intoxicating liquor, which accompanied the ecstatic rites to be celebrated. A jewel of onix also found at Knossos shows the goddess bee taking over the head of bull horns and the double ax inside the curve of the horns. Later, dogs belonging to the underworld Hecate and Artemis have wings and fly so close to their winged goddess who, at first glance, appear as if they were theirs.
The tombs at Mycenae are in the shape of beehives, as well as the Omphalos of Delphi in classical Greece, where Apollo ruled with his principal oracle priestess, the Pythia, who was named bee delfica. In the Greek Homeric hymns to Hermes, written in the eighth century BC, the god Apollo talked about three seers women as three bees or maids. Bees, like himself, practiced divination. These bees-maidens with their sacred gift of prophecy, were the gift of Apollo Hermes, the only god who can carry the souls of the dead to life, and sometimes back again.
According Strabo, in Elefsina and Ephesus in the priestesses who once held the ancient mysteries were called Melissai, “Bees”, initiated some that had reached a level of purity were also indisputable that name. The bees were Melissai or priestesses of Artemis, and were led by the “King of Bees” (the Greeks did not know that the bees had no king and queen). Bees were associated with Ephesus for many reasons, saying that muses in the form of bees were those that had led to the Athenians who came to colonize the land.
The figure of Artemis showed in his belt and skirt, figures of bees, have also been found in excavations representations of gold. The currencies of Ephesus had in any of their faces always at the bee.
- Egypt: beginning to represent it as a symbol of the soul of men, it is embodied in the graves as the image of survival of the soul after death. But at the same time serve as emblematic of the pharaonic dynasties of Upper and Lower Egypt, represented by a bee and a blade of rushes. One of the funeral hymns to the pharaoh usertable II reads: ‘case to rush to the bee, “which is interpreted as an affirmation that prevailed in both Egypt. Bees also have been found in the burial tomb of the pharaoh of Egypt, Ahotpu I. According to an Egyptian myth, honey bees were tears of the sun god Ra. His religious meaning was extended to an association with the goddess Neith, whose temple in Lower Egypt was known as per-bit, meaning “house of the bee.”
Honey is considered a symbol of resurrection and the thought of giving protection against bad spirits.
- Within Europe bees also were found in the tombs of the barbarian Gauls, and mainly in the tomb of King Childeric franc (d. 481). The bee is the symbol of the French monarchy. In the Basque Country were part of the family and they were communicated the most important events of family life, because if it did not so bees were dying or leaving the hive.
There have always been in the Basque region a special and profound respect for the dead, as evidenced many old traditions. After death, the closest neighbor to call relatives and himself, or someone in the house, gave the news to the animals, especially bees.
Juan Garcia Atienza, known discloser of esoteric issues, we spoke in one of his books that made a curious discovery while visiting the interior of the parish of San Torcuato: In the corridor leading to a small chapel located between the old and the apse rear of the altar, this author found two fresh different from each other but with both a symbol and very similar feature for some of the esoteric art: Two lozenges fairly flat landscape and each of them containing a bee in the center and two six-pointed stars at both ends.
- In the Mayan culture is not known a goddess bee, but a god bee, a companion of the moon goddess, surely influenced by the patriarchal culture.
- It seems that this cult of the bee was extended to the islands of Crete in the Aegean and the Greek mainland. The mythology realizes that Jupiter in its childhood was fed with honey brought by Melisa, the daughter of a Cretan king, to a cave where they had hidden the child. The stamp of a gold ring (1450 BC) in a tomb located in Isopata near Knossos, shows the relationship between the Goddess and priestesses with the queen bees and their pawns, performing a dance. This ring was found in a tomb, probably because the bee in Crete was considered life emerging from death. In the stamp appears the Goddess bee in the middle, coming to Earth with snakes and among the lilies, being adored by her priestesses.
Honey was used to embalm the dead, and also played a central part in the new year rituals of the Minoan culture. The new year began in the Cretan summer solstice, when the heat was at its peak, and July 20 was the day when the big star Sirius rose in conjunction with the Sun, also in Sumeria and Egypt. In these two countries Sirius was explicitly called “the star of the Goddess” (Innanen in Sumer, Egypt and Isis), and temples, palaces on Crete were geared to this star. The rise of Sirius ended a 40-day ritual during which it was obtained honey from the hives of bees in the darkness of caves and forests. Honey was made mead by fermenting it to be drunk as an intoxicating liquor, which accompanied the ecstatic rites to be celebrated. A jewel of onix also found at Knossos shows the goddess bee taking over the head of bull horns and the double ax inside the curve of the horns. Later, dogs belonging to the underworld Hecate and Artemis have wings and fly so close to their winged goddess who, at first glance, appear as if they were theirs.
The tombs at Mycenae are in the shape of beehives, as well as the Omphalos of Delphi in classical Greece, where Apollo ruled with his principal oracle priestess, the Pythia, who was named bee delfica. In the Greek Homeric hymns to Hermes, written in the eighth century BC, the god Apollo talked about three seers women as three bees or maids. Bees, like himself, practiced divination. These bees-maidens with their sacred gift of prophecy, were the gift of Apollo Hermes, the only god who can carry the souls of the dead to life, and sometimes back again.
According Strabo, in Elefsina and Ephesus in the priestesses who once held the ancient mysteries were called Melissai, “Bees”, initiated some that had reached a level of purity were also indisputable that name. The bees were Melissai or priestesses of Artemis, and were led by the “King of Bees” (the Greeks did not know that the bees had no king and queen). Bees were associated with Ephesus for many reasons, saying that muses in the form of bees were those that had led to the Athenians who came to colonize the land.
The figure of Artemis showed in his belt and skirt, figures of bees, have also been found in excavations representations of gold. The currencies of Ephesus had in any of their faces always at the bee.
- Egypt: beginning to represent it as a symbol of the soul of men, it is embodied in the graves as the image of survival of the soul after death. But at the same time serve as emblematic of the pharaonic dynasties of Upper and Lower Egypt, represented by a bee and a blade of rushes. One of the funeral hymns to the pharaoh usertable II reads: ‘case to rush to the bee, “which is interpreted as an affirmation that prevailed in both Egypt. Bees also have been found in the burial tomb of the pharaoh of Egypt, Ahotpu I. According to an Egyptian myth, honey bees were tears of the sun god Ra. His religious meaning was extended to an association with the goddess Neith, whose temple in Lower Egypt was known as per-bit, meaning “house of the bee.”
Honey is considered a symbol of resurrection and the thought of giving protection against bad spirits.
- Within Europe bees also were found in the tombs of the barbarian Gauls, and mainly in the tomb of King Childeric franc (d. 481). The bee is the symbol of the French monarchy. In the Basque Country were part of the family and they were communicated the most important events of family life, because if it did not so bees were dying or leaving the hive.
There have always been in the Basque region a special and profound respect for the dead, as evidenced many old traditions. After death, the closest neighbor to call relatives and himself, or someone in the house, gave the news to the animals, especially bees.
Juan Garcia Atienza, known discloser of esoteric issues, we spoke in one of his books that made a curious discovery while visiting the interior of the parish of San Torcuato: In the corridor leading to a small chapel located between the old and the apse rear of the altar, this author found two fresh different from each other but with both a symbol and very similar feature for some of the esoteric art: Two lozenges fairly flat landscape and each of them containing a bee in the center and two six-pointed stars at both ends.
- In the Mayan culture is not known a goddess bee, but a god bee, a companion of the moon goddess, surely influenced by the patriarchal culture.
Tipos de mieles
Hay muchísimos tipos o variedades de miel según en qué tipo de flores hayan libado las abejas lo cual también determinará las propiedades de esa miel. ¿Quieres saber las propiedades sobre la salud que tienen los diferentes tipos, clases o variedades de miel?
Existen un sinfín de especies vegetales con notables diferencias, características y propiedades y por ello encontramos mieles diferentes, que pueden ser multiflorales (muchas clases de flores) o monoflorales (sólo un tipo de flor) según su procedencia, cada una de ellas con sus diferentes peculiaridades. Aquí tenemos unas pocas de las más habituales:
Mielato de encina
De color muy oscuro casi negro. De olor y sabor a malta muy poco dulce. Muy indicada para combatir la anemia por su alto contenido en hierro. También se utiliza en afecciones respiratorias.
Miel de cantueso
De color ámbar y sabor característico a lavanda. Por su poder bactericida y antiséptico es la más indicada en uso externo para picaduras de insectos, quemaduras y heridas. Buen antidiarreico. También se utiliza en afecciones respiratorias.
Miel de azahar
De color ámbar claro, perfumada y suave al paladar. De efectos sedantes ayuda a conciliar el sueño a niños y ancianos. Es también antiespasmódica.
Miel de romero
De color ámbar muy claro y blanco cuando está cristalizada. Aromática y dulce. Eficaz estimulante hepático que favorece la descongestión del hígado. Indicada para las úlceras del aparato digestivo y la dismenorrea.No recomendada a hipertensos ya que es un poco tonificante.
Miel de eucalipto
De color ocre. Muy aromática con un sabor característico a madera. Antiséptico de las vías respiratorias y urinarias, de efectos balsámicos y vermífugos. Está indicada contra catarros y afecciones del árbol respiratorio. La más indicada para los diabéticos.
Miel de tomillo
De tono rojizo y sabor agradable. Indicada para las afecciones respiratorias de tipo inflamatorio, tos convulsiva y asma. Reguladora de la tensión arterial. Muy indicada como tonificante ante la fatiga y la astenia.
Miel de brezo
De color caoba oscuro y sabor poco dulce ligeramente amargo. Muy recomendada en problemas cardíacos: insuficiencia coronaria, arritmias, cardiopatías, angina de pecho e infarto. Ideal para prevenir la formación de cálculos y las inflamaciones en la vejiga, riñón y uretra. Antirreumática. Por su contenido en minerales está indicada para la anemia, inapetencia y fatiga.
Miel de milflores
Procedente de varias floraciones simultáneas presenta un color y sabor muy variables, generalmente de un ámbar oscuro y sabor intenso. Antiinflamatoria, digestiva y cicatrizante.
Tipos de miel según la dolencia:
Estreñimiento: Dos cucharadas soperas de miel pura en las tisanas. O también dos cucharadas soperas directamente a la boca de miel de acacia. Una en ayunas y otra antes de acostarse.
Trastornos digestivos: Miel de menta
Falta de tono: Miel de menta.
Contra las anginas: 4 gr de miel de abeto en un vaso de leche caliente con unas gotas de limón.
Biberones de lactantes: Miel de acacia.
Insomnio: miel de tilo.
Gripe: miel de abeto.
Insuficiencia hepática: miel de romero.
Costipado: Miel de tomillo, abeto y Jura
Migrañas: miel de lavanda.
Trastornos cardíacos: miel de espino albar.
Trastornos nerviosos: miel de tilo.
Tos: Miel de abeto o pino, tomillo
Enfermedades infecciosas pulmonares: miel de lavanda.
Ansiedad: miel de naranjo.
Cólicos: miel de naranjo.
Vértigos: miel de espino albar.
Zumbido en los oídos: miel de espino blanco.
Palpitaciones: miel de naranjo.
Dolor de garganta: miel de lavanda.
Astenia física-psíquica: Miel de romero.
Angustia: Miel de espino albar.
Bronquitis: Miel de eucaliptus y lavanda.
Sobre la miel
La miel es una sustancia elaborada por las abejas a partir del néctar de las flores en las que liban y que nos brinda un sinfín de propiedades medicinales. La miel es uno de los alimentos más antiguos de los que se ha venido beneficiando el ser humano.
¿Qué es la miel?
La miel es una sustancia elaborada por las abejas a partir del néctar de las flores en las que liban. Néctar que deshidratan para evitar fermentaciones y al que añaden enzimas. Existe también miel como el de la encina, cuya procedencia no es el néctar de las flores sino las secreciones de algunas plantas. Las abejas la depositan en las celdillas de los panales que después sellan para su almacenamiento. La miel es junto al polen el alimento cotidiano de toda la colonia.
¿Cuáles son las propiedades de la miel?
La miel es un alimento ideal para niños, estudiantes, ancianos, convalecientes y deportistas.
Problemas de hipertensión e hipotensión, problemas cardíacos, artritis, reuma, estreñimiento, dispepsia, acidez e insomnio.
Descongestionar bronquios y pulmones y suavizar la garganta.
Aftas bucales (en enjuagues).
La miel para uso cosmético por sus propiedades suavizantes y antiinflamatorias.
La inflamación de las hemorroides (en uso externo).
Al ser una alimento alcalino no suele causar problemas de asimilación en personas con disfunciones digestivas, siendo de gran ayuda en la cicatrización de úlceras de estómago y duodeno.
Su riqueza en potasio la convierte en bactericida, impidiendo el desarrollo de caldos de cultivo, por lo que se utiliza desde la antigüedad como conservante de alimentos y de platos cocinados, a los que enriquece con su sabor.
La miel actúa como un eficaz desinfectante y cicatrizante de heridas.
Su composición mayoritariamente de azúcares la convierten en un producto energético que permite la alimentación muscular inmediata, siendo por ello no solo de utilidad a deportistas, sino a personas aquejadas de una musculatura deficiente, incluido el miocardio, por lo que resulta ideal para personas mayores con problemas cardíacos y convalecientes.
Información nutricional de la miel
Está compuesta de un 20% aproximado de agua.
Un 80% de hidratos de carbono procedentes de sus azúcares: 38% de fructosa, 32% de glucosa, 5% de sacarosa, 7% de maltosa y el resto de isomaltosa, erlosa, rafinosa y otros (cada cucharita de 4 gr. aproximados de miel contiene 1g. de glucosa).
La miel proporciona unas 330 cal/100 gr.
Sales minerales de fácil asimilación ricas en: potasio, calcio, hierro, fósforo, magnesio, manganeso y cobre.
Las vitaminas presentes en la miel, aunque en pequeñas dosis, a diferencia de las presentes en frutas y verduras, no se pierden de una forma rápida en su almacenamiento, sino que se conservan durante largo tiempo. Destacan la vitamina A, C, D, E, K, y el grupo B.
Muy rica en Enzimas: diastasa, amilasa, invertasa, catalasa, peroxidasa y lipasa.Ácidos orgánicos: málico, vínico, cítrico, láctico, oxálico, fosfórico, acético y fórmico. Este último le confiere sus propiedades antisépticas.
¿Sabías que la miel…?
Para que la miel conserve todos sus nutrientes y propiedades es primordial la forma de su extracción y manipulado. La miel debe ser extraída por prensado o centrifugado tras su desoperculación y a ser posible sin calentar. Después proceder a su filtrado en el que se eliminan sus impurezas (restos de ceras o abejas). De esta forma la miel cristalizará al poco tiempo según sus azúcares de una forma más o menos irregular pudiendo ser granulada o pastosa.
Su color oscilará de un ámbar claro a un castaño oscuro dependiendo de su procedencia. Cuanto más oscura es la miel, más rica es en minerales y vitaminas B y C. Por ello son las más indicadas para personas anémicas y convalecientes, como reconstituyentes y para aumentar la hemoglobina, siendo elegidas por deportistas, niños y mujeres. Cuanto más clara es, más rica es en vitamina A.
¿Qué es la miel?
La miel es una sustancia elaborada por las abejas a partir del néctar de las flores en las que liban. Néctar que deshidratan para evitar fermentaciones y al que añaden enzimas. Existe también miel como el de la encina, cuya procedencia no es el néctar de las flores sino las secreciones de algunas plantas. Las abejas la depositan en las celdillas de los panales que después sellan para su almacenamiento. La miel es junto al polen el alimento cotidiano de toda la colonia.
¿Cuáles son las propiedades de la miel?
La miel es un alimento ideal para niños, estudiantes, ancianos, convalecientes y deportistas.
Problemas de hipertensión e hipotensión, problemas cardíacos, artritis, reuma, estreñimiento, dispepsia, acidez e insomnio.
Descongestionar bronquios y pulmones y suavizar la garganta.
Aftas bucales (en enjuagues).
La miel para uso cosmético por sus propiedades suavizantes y antiinflamatorias.
La inflamación de las hemorroides (en uso externo).
Al ser una alimento alcalino no suele causar problemas de asimilación en personas con disfunciones digestivas, siendo de gran ayuda en la cicatrización de úlceras de estómago y duodeno.
Su riqueza en potasio la convierte en bactericida, impidiendo el desarrollo de caldos de cultivo, por lo que se utiliza desde la antigüedad como conservante de alimentos y de platos cocinados, a los que enriquece con su sabor.
La miel actúa como un eficaz desinfectante y cicatrizante de heridas.
Su composición mayoritariamente de azúcares la convierten en un producto energético que permite la alimentación muscular inmediata, siendo por ello no solo de utilidad a deportistas, sino a personas aquejadas de una musculatura deficiente, incluido el miocardio, por lo que resulta ideal para personas mayores con problemas cardíacos y convalecientes.
Información nutricional de la miel
Está compuesta de un 20% aproximado de agua.
Un 80% de hidratos de carbono procedentes de sus azúcares: 38% de fructosa, 32% de glucosa, 5% de sacarosa, 7% de maltosa y el resto de isomaltosa, erlosa, rafinosa y otros (cada cucharita de 4 gr. aproximados de miel contiene 1g. de glucosa).
La miel proporciona unas 330 cal/100 gr.
Sales minerales de fácil asimilación ricas en: potasio, calcio, hierro, fósforo, magnesio, manganeso y cobre.
Las vitaminas presentes en la miel, aunque en pequeñas dosis, a diferencia de las presentes en frutas y verduras, no se pierden de una forma rápida en su almacenamiento, sino que se conservan durante largo tiempo. Destacan la vitamina A, C, D, E, K, y el grupo B.
Muy rica en Enzimas: diastasa, amilasa, invertasa, catalasa, peroxidasa y lipasa.Ácidos orgánicos: málico, vínico, cítrico, láctico, oxálico, fosfórico, acético y fórmico. Este último le confiere sus propiedades antisépticas.
¿Sabías que la miel…?
Para que la miel conserve todos sus nutrientes y propiedades es primordial la forma de su extracción y manipulado. La miel debe ser extraída por prensado o centrifugado tras su desoperculación y a ser posible sin calentar. Después proceder a su filtrado en el que se eliminan sus impurezas (restos de ceras o abejas). De esta forma la miel cristalizará al poco tiempo según sus azúcares de una forma más o menos irregular pudiendo ser granulada o pastosa.
Su color oscilará de un ámbar claro a un castaño oscuro dependiendo de su procedencia. Cuanto más oscura es la miel, más rica es en minerales y vitaminas B y C. Por ello son las más indicadas para personas anémicas y convalecientes, como reconstituyentes y para aumentar la hemoglobina, siendo elegidas por deportistas, niños y mujeres. Cuanto más clara es, más rica es en vitamina A.
