Honey is made from the nectar of flowers by bees. Honey is so sweet that many people use it as a sweetener. For human health, honey is a better sweetener than sugar for honey contains many useful compounds. Besides fructose, glucose, and sucrose, honey also contains various vitamins and minerals. Vitamin C, vitamin B, iron, potassium, zinc, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and sodium can be found in honey. However, the exact composition will depend on the type of flowers since different nectars contain different nutritions. Another benefit of honey is its quality as an anti-bacterial that can treat various infections, including bladder infection.
Anti bacterial, anti fungal, and anti-viral quality of honey can help people fight the bacteria that infect the bladder. For a home remedy of bladder infection, you can mix honey with apple cider vinegar. The recipe is one teaspoon of honey, two teaspoons of apple cider vinegar, and one glass of water that you mix them for daily drink. The purpose of apple cider vinegar added to the honey is to create an acidic condition in the urine that will be bad for bacteria, and the water will help lower the acidity level to make it consumable.
If you do not have apple cider vinegar or you do not like the acidic taste, you can take one teaspoon of honey with one or two pinches of salt to treat the bladder infection. You can take honey and salt only or you can mix them with warm water. Salt is not good for bacteria. Another ingredient that can treat the bladder infection along with honey is cinnamon. Cinnamon can help destroy the bacteria. You can add two teaspoons of ground cinnamon into one cup of warm water and mix them with one teaspoon of honey. Stir them and drink it daily until the infection is healed. Consuming honey every day is also good to prevent bladder infection and to keep your body healthy.
