The Language of Honey: A Dictionary of Honey Varieties and Their Health Benefits

This book contains over 150 honey varieties and their healing benefits.

In the most ancient mythologies honey was considered a gift from the sky. It was the privileged food of the immortal Olympian gods. Pline named it “saliva of the stars”, “sweat of the sky”. For the Greeks it falls from the clouds and it glides along the trees. Aristotle affirms that it is “born from the dew overlaid on the flowers.” The famous medieval physicist Paracelsus called it the “Elixir of Life”. The useful properties of various plants which are present in that particular variety of honey will help to heal various diseases.