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What are the main functions of honey?

Honey is a nutritious, sweet and delicious natural product, which is not only food, but also has high medicinal value. As well as walnut and jujube, it is one of the traditional health foods in China. Honey has been used as a medical health care product for a long time to treat diseases, and it has certain curative effect on internal and surgical diseases. In the Compendium of Materia Medica written by Li Shizhen in Ming Dynasty, it is recorded that honey is cold when eaten raw, so it can clear heat; Cooked and warm, it can make up the middle: it tastes sweet and peaceful, so it can detoxify; Soft and moist, so it can moisten dryness; Slow can relieve urgency, so it can stop the pain of myocardial ulcer; And can be used with herbs and T grass. Honey has certain curative effect on heart disease, hypertension, lung disease, cough, hepatitis, anemia, constipation, scald, frostbite, gastric and duodenal ulcer and other diseases.