Honey With Hot Water Side Effects: Whenever you mention your increased weight to someone, the first advice you get to lose weight is, ‘Hey listen, you start drinking honey with warm water in the morning on an empty stomach.’ This advice is so easy that you also start following it to reduce your enlarged belly. But do you know that this one small mistake can become a problem for you. The honey which you are considering as nectar for your increased weight, can it prove to be poison for you because of this small mistake? MD (Ayurveda), Dr. Sunil Arya According to this, honey should never be drunk with hot water.
In fact, nowhere in Ayurveda is it advised to consume honey with hot water. Dr. Sunil Arya explains, ‘You can understand it like where honey comes from. Bees collect the juice of many flowers and make honey from it. In such a situation, these bees sometimes bring juice even from poisonous flowers. In such a situation, whenever you take honey with hot water, such poisonous nature can become active in it. Actually the nature of poison is hot. In such a situation, drinking honey mixed with hot water can become poisonous in nature.
Honey is rich in antioxidants and moisturizing elements. (Canva)
According to Ayurveda, you should always drink honey in lukewarm water. If the temperature of the water is high i.e. it is hot then it can cause harm instead of benefit to you. Besides, by drinking honey in very hot water, some of its important and essential elements also get destroyed.
Benefits of honey-
- For weight loss, always drink honey with lukewarm water.
- Honey also improves your digestion.
- For good skin, mix honey and lemon in multani mitti and apply it on the face.
- You can also replace honey instead of sugar.
- Honey also reduces muscle swelling.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: February 16, 2024, 13:59 IST
