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Honey as a Complementary Medicine
The beneficial effects of honey on human health have long been recognized. Today, many of those positive effects have been studied to elucidate its mode of action. This review briefly summarizes the best studied features of honey, highlighting it as an appealing alternative medicine. In these report...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5406168/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28469409 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1178633717702869 |
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description | The beneficial effects of honey on human health have long been recognized. Today, many of those positive effects have been studied to elucidate its mode of action. This review briefly summarizes the best studied features of honey, highlighting it as an appealing alternative medicine. In these reports, the health benefits of honey range from antioxidant, immunomodulatory, and anti-inflammatory activity to anticancer action, metabolic and cardiovascular benefits, prebiotic properties, human pathogen control, and antiviral activity. These studies also support that the honey’s biological activity is mainly dependent on its floral or geographic origin. In addition, some promising synergies between honey and antibiotics have been found, as well as some antiviral properties that require further investigation. Altogether, these studies show that honey is effectively a nutraceutical foodstuff. |
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spelling | pubmed-54061682017-05-03 Honey as a Complementary Medicine Miguel, MG Antunes, MD Faleiro, ML Integr Med Insights Review The beneficial effects of honey on human health have long been recognized. Today, many of those positive effects have been studied to elucidate its mode of action. This review briefly summarizes the best studied features of honey, highlighting it as an appealing alternative medicine. In these reports, the health benefits of honey range from antioxidant, immunomodulatory, and anti-inflammatory activity to anticancer action, metabolic and cardiovascular benefits, prebiotic properties, human pathogen control, and antiviral activity. These studies also support that the honey’s biological activity is mainly dependent on its floral or geographic origin. In addition, some promising synergies between honey and antibiotics have been found, as well as some antiviral properties that require further investigation. Altogether, these studies show that honey is effectively a nutraceutical foodstuff. SAGE Publications 2017-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5406168/ /pubmed/28469409 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1178633717702869 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Review Miguel, MG Antunes, MD Faleiro, ML Honey as a Complementary Medicine |
title | Honey as a Complementary Medicine |
title_full | Honey as a Complementary Medicine |
title_fullStr | Honey as a Complementary Medicine |
title_full_unstemmed | Honey as a Complementary Medicine |
title_short | Honey as a Complementary Medicine |
title_sort | honey as a complementary medicine |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5406168/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28469409 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1178633717702869 |
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