Legendary bee keeper Jeff Cripe sells the best honey in Indiana. This is from the spring season. According to Ayurveda, raw honey is a nectar. Cooked honey is considered a poison, becoming a homogenous glue that adheres to subtle channels of the body. There is a text which says ama (metabolic toxins) produced from consuming cooked honey is the most difficult to remove from the body. The rule is this: If it’s too hot for your pinky, it’s too hot for honey.

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Honey has a scraping quality to it which is very medicinal in certain conditions. Think about the honeycomb and imagine that at the molecular level. Honey is a common adjuvent to Ayurvedic medicinal prescriptions because it helps scrape the body of sticky unwanted materials. Moreover honey is one of the few sweet tastes that is heating in nature rather than cooling. Thus in many cases of stagnation and accumulation, honey is a powerful medicine.