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Physiology & Medicine / Is sulphur and honey helpful for treating colds?
« on: 29/05/2010 01:30:03 »
Janet Hamilton asked the Naked Scientists:
Good Morning!
I was listening to an old podcast at work on traditional medicine.
Recently I've been catching cold rather often and my mom said I should start taking sulfur and honey for two weeks.
She told me, when we were young she would give us 1/8tsp sulfur with 1 tbsp raw honey for the first fourteen days of spring to prevent illness.
Apparently it's something my family has been doing for generations.
I tried to google the reasoning behind this and found nothing other than detox jibber jabber.
I remember reading at some point though, taking sulfur gave your immune system a boost.
Over all.... What would the science behind taking sulfur and honey be?
Thank you!
Janet Hamilton
What do you think?
Good Morning!
I was listening to an old podcast at work on traditional medicine.
Recently I've been catching cold rather often and my mom said I should start taking sulfur and honey for two weeks.
She told me, when we were young she would give us 1/8tsp sulfur with 1 tbsp raw honey for the first fourteen days of spring to prevent illness.
Apparently it's something my family has been doing for generations.
I tried to google the reasoning behind this and found nothing other than detox jibber jabber.
I remember reading at some point though, taking sulfur gave your immune system a boost.
Over all.... What would the science behind taking sulfur and honey be?
Thank you!
Janet Hamilton
What do you think?