Real Natural Remedy for Allergies

If you have allergies, I feel for you!  My allergies get really bad in the springtime, usually second week of May.  Some people get them bad right around this time before it gets cold.  I have tried everything over the counter for allergies, and for some reason, NOTHING works.  I have tried Claritin, Sudafed, Nasal Sprays, done an allergy test at the doctor, etc.  The drugs usually get me dried up, don't feel great, maybe it stops the symptoms for about 1 hour, but then after that, the dripping begins again.

I don't just have sniffles and I can pat it down with tissue paper.  I drip like a faucet!  I have itchy eyes and pretty much am useless to do anything since I have to constantly attend to my symptoms.  I have been looking for a natural solution, and think I have now found it.

To fight allergies, eat LOCALLY grown honey.  The key is locally grown to where you live.  The bees will gather the pollen from your surrounding plants into the honey, and bits of pollen act like a natural drug - helping your body build up an immunity to the flower and tree pollen in your local area.  I just discovered this amazing concept for fighting allergies, and it has some amazing affects!

What was a complete surprise in honey adventure is just HOW GOOD real, local honey tastes!!  My first spoonful instantly brought me back to 5th grade...  The taste of the honey was like the honey we used to buy at the grocery store growing up.  My mom would put this honey on grapefruit halves.  Extremely fragrant, extremely smooth.

This honey comes from Naperville, Illinois, and is completely locally harvested from fields in Naperville/Aurora.  I know the main beekeeper so I know that this honey is for sure, local and the real deal.

You can buy it here:
iHealth
1283 East Ogden Ave. #183, Naperville, IL

More on the Baobab Tree and Fruit

The baobab tree is an unusual tree found in Africa.  Perhaps the next big touted superfood, which is why it has peaked my interest.  From a healthy food perspective, baobab is a mainstay in the local African's diet, and has interesting medicinal purposes that people use it for in that part of the world (discussed further in this post).


Over generations, many names have been given to this mystical, HUGE tree.  In the desert, people can even stay inside the tree for shelter, at the base of the tree.  Adansonias trees can reach heights of 5 to 30 meters (16 to 98 ft) and have trunk diameters of 7 to 11 meters (23 to 36 ft).  20+ feet diameter for a trunk?!  The typical common name for this tree is baobab.  However, it also possesses other names including boab, boaboa, bottle tree, tree of life, upside-down tree, and monkey bread tree.  The generic name honours Michel Adanson, the French naturalist and explorer who described A. digitata.

In terms of medicinal purposes, the ancient Egyptians used it for treating fevers, dysentery and bloody wounds. For generations in Africa, Baobab is often given as a calming agent for those with a fever, but is also used to combat diarrhea, dysentery, small pox, and measles.  My friend who is from Togo says that her mom uses it as part of the post pregnancy recovery diet.  The baobab, like many other cultural traditional medicines, have been 'tested' by humans for 1000s of years.  No current day 'clincial' study can match that kind of dataset!

When talking about baobab fruit's nutrition, it seriously beats out most fruits that we eat in the US.  Baobab has 5x more potassium than bananas.  3x more antioxidants than blueberries.  Baobab is high in antioxidants, which slows oxidative damage and helps decrease inflammation.  It also has 2.5x more calcium than milk.  Baobab is super high in dietary fiber, especially pectins.  Half of the fruit is fiber. 

Source: Wikipedia, baobab.com