JPS6043349A - Preparation of honey containing herb - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To produce a herb-containing honey giving a safe and preservable health drink agreeable to take, by blending honey with medicinal herbs, and processing the mixture by bees. CONSTITUTION:Honey collected from a beeshive is squeezed and mixed with decocted herbs or dried powder. The obtained misture is put into a top-opened vessel, allowed to be taken by bees and stored in a beehive, taken out of the beehive, and filtered to remove beeswax, etc. Herb-containing honey can be obtained, and a safe and preservable health drink agreeable to take can be produced therefrom. Herbs which have hitherto been difficult to take because of the bitter taste and characteristic odor are made agreeable to take, and the drug effects of herbs and honey can be attained at the same time.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] The present invention relates to a method for producing honey containing medicinal herbs. The natural products obtained from the plant bark of grass roots and used for medicinal purposes are called crude drugs. In China, there has been traditional Chinese medicine for a long time. The crude drugs used are called kanyaku (herbal medicine), and in Japan, unique ones are added and called wakanyaku, which are valued as home remedies.

Herbal medicines are prepared by soaking them in alcohol to extract the active ingredients (tincture), by evaporating the water or alcohol soaking liquid to concentrate the active ingredients (extract), or by separating the active ingredients into crystals to extract the active (1) ingredients. In recent years, it has been re-recognized by medical and pharmaceutical circles, but it has a unique odor, and the taste is often bitter, spicy, astringent, and unpleasant, and its medicinal properties are excellent. However, many of them were difficult to take due to their aromatic and irritating properties.

Bees collect nectar from the nectary glands of plants and flowers, store it in their hives as winter food, and refine it to remove beeswax, a sweetener called honey, whose main ingredients are fructose and It is glucose and also contains trace amounts of sucrose, protein, and organic acids, and pure, high-quality sugar is transparent and fragrant. Honey has different qualities such as color, flavor, viscosity, and constituent sugars depending on the type of flower from which it is sourced, giving it its own characteristics. If we consider that honey is what bees store in their hives as winter food, there is no need to argue that honey is the best food for bees.

The present invention is a method for producing honey containing medicinal herbs that have not existed in the past by blending medicinal herbs that have traditionally been difficult to consume with honey, which is a natural sweetener, and processing the mixture by bees (2). ), it is a creation of medicinal herbs blended harmoniously with the sweetness of honey, making it easy to drink for people of all ages and genders, as well as adding safety and preservability by having bees process it. , it has features such as making it possible to create a new health drink.

Hereinafter, the configuration of the present invention will be explained using practical examples.

An open container containing a mixture of honey collected from the hive and squeezed using a separator and decoction or dried powder of medicinal herbs is placed, and the bees suck this mixture and extract the honey stored in the hive. Honey is collected from the hive again and filtered to remove beeswax and other substances to produce honey containing medicinal herbs.

Next, the effects of the present invention will be explained using examples.

Utilizing the habit of bees to collect nectar from the nectary glands of plants and flowers and store it in their hives as food for the winter, we have developed honey that is ideal for bees' food, with properties such as bitterness, aroma, and pungency. (3) Honey containing the medicinal herbs according to the present invention is produced by mixing the medicinal herbs that were difficult to consume due to the ingestion of the medicinal herbs and feeding the medicinal herbs once again to the bees and storing them in the hive. Therefore, honey containing medicinal herbs according to the present invention, for example, Chinese herbal honey, is pure honey. In this case, if the medicinal herbs are made into a decoction or dried fine powder, they can be easily mixed with honey and can be easily eaten by bees. The question is whether bees will eat medicinal herbs that have a pungent or bitter taste, but there is no particular problem with this point, as experiments have shown that bees will eat them as long as they have a sugar content. Furthermore, when considering sugar content, active ingredients, etc., the optimum mixing ratio of honey and medicinal herbs was 80% honey and 20% medicinal herb extract by weight. However, the mixing ratio is not limited depending on the properties of honey nectar source plants and medicinal herbs. In this way, the mixture of medicinal herbs and honey sucked by the bees is temporarily stored in the bee's digestive system, the so-called honey sac, and during this time it is naturally digested and sterilized, and thoroughly mixed with the help of the bees. Furthermore, while stored in the bees' abdomens, the irritating and aromatic properties of medicinal herbs are harmoniously combined with honey, which alleviates the medicinal properties, which cannot be achieved with conventional medicinal herbs (4) or honey alone. This creates a completely new flavor of honey. Moreover, it is safe for the weak bees that die instantly when sprayed with insecticides, and the preservability of honey, which can be stored for a long time at room temperature, is guaranteed, so the medicinal effects of medicinal herbs and honey are preserved as they are. can be enjoyed in the state,
It is a natural nourishing and health drink that is very effective for health, and has the remarkable effects mentioned above.

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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A mixture of honey collected from the hive and squeezed and a decoction or dried powder of medicinal herbs is fed to the bees and stored in the hive, and then the mixture is collected from the hive again. , a method for producing honey containing medicinal herbs.