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This website has been published as a database of our research on the highly regarded SIDR honey of Yemen.  SIDR honey is in tremendous demand, particularly for its curative and nutritive benefits. Some are willing to pay large sums of money, up to USD800 per kg of honey, when supply is low! the author of one of the few Arabic treatises on beekeeping, 'the whole of Yemen is a land of honey'. Beekeeping is deep-rooted throughout Yemen's history with a very old and rich tradition. It is an activity which has come down through time like an inheritance.
Connoisseurs are able to distinguish between a Yemeni honey and one imported from abroad, as well as recognizing its regional origin from its aroma, colour and taste.  The degree of the humidity and consequent viscosity are of great importance in the valuation of honey. Honey has become the Yemeni's heritage and one of the most precious gifts that are presented to Sheikhs, ministers or well-known social personalities.

Health Benefits of Raw and Pure Honey

1.      Antibacterial and antifungal properties

2.     Provides minerals, vitamins, antioxidants

3.     Strengthens immunity

4.     Honey also has its effect on weight Loss which makes me mostly excited! Simply drink warm water with lemon and honey on an empty stomach.

5.     Did you know that though honey has more calories than sugar, honey when consumed with warm water helps in digesting the fat stored in your body?

6.     Promotes the growth of good bacteria in the intestine

7.     Boosts energy and reduces fatigue

8.     Restores eyesight. Mix 2 teaspoons of honey with carrot juice and consume regularly.

9.     Relieves a sore throat

10.  Prevents heart disease by improving blood flow

11.   Soothes burns, disinfects wounds. Garlic honey, which is just a mixture of honey and garlic, can be applied directly to infected wounds to clean the area

12.   Reduces inflammation and pain

13.   Alkalizes body’s pH

14.  Contains phytonutrients, which possess cancer-preventing and anti-tumor properties

15.   Helps with indigestion and acid reflux

16.  Destroys bacteria causing acne

17.  Prevents low white blood cell count

18.  Counters pollen allergies. Take a teaspoon of raw honey a couple of times a day starting a few months prior to allergy season.

19.  Flushes parasites from liver and colon

20.  A salve made of honey can be applied to eczema with asthma when mixed with black pepper and ginger

21.   For hangovers. Mix 15ml of raw honey with 80ml of orange juice and 70ml of organic yogurt.

22.  Reduces ulcers and other gastrointestinal disorders

23.  Honey helps build stamina in athletes

24.  Honey and cinnamon can help with Arthritis. Mix one part honey with two parts of luke warm water and a teaspoon of cinnamon. Massage the mixture on the itching part of the body.

25.  Helps with scalp problems and dandruff

26.  Helps with anxiety

27.  Reduces metabolic stress

28.  Helps clear your sinuses. To clear your sinuses, take a mixture of 1 teaspoon each of fresh ginger juice and honey two or three times a day.

29.  Cures toothache. Make a paste of honey and cinnamon and apply on the aching tooth.

30.  Moisturizes skin. Mix a dollop of honey and two tablespoons of warm water and massage the mixture into your skin.

31.   Relieves morning sickness

32.  Helps with hiccups

33.   Reduces hay fever. Take  a tablespoon of honey in the morning

34.  Helps with tension headaches. Simply sip on a ½ glass of warm water with a couple of added teaspoons of honey.

35.   Helps with pink eye. Place a teaspoon of honey with a cup of water and heat just enough to melt the honey. Let cool and use an eye dropper drop the mixture in the infected eye.

36.  Leg cramps. Take 2 tbsp. of apple cider vinegar and 1 tbsp. of honey each evening before bed.

37.  Reduces cholesterol. Mix two tablespoons of honey and three tablespoons of cinnamon in 16 ounces of tea.

38.  Helps with bad breath.  Mix one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon in hot water.

39.  Soften hard water, Just add honey to bath water

Traditional Beekeping

An important factor affecting a honey's curative qualities is purity. Only crude, unprocessed honey has shown to be effective.

On the global market, raw, organic honey is very rare. This is because modern agriculture has introduced chemicals into the previously untainted environment of the bee hive. Not only are chemical residues carried in on the pollens and nectars that bees gather, chemicals and antibiotics are used by beekeepers to control mites and other bee diseases in the hive. This practice is so widespread globally, making organic honey difficult to produce.

In Yemen the method of beekeeping has always been a traditional one, from one generation to another. No machinery used in extracting the honey from uncultivated plants. All are done using their hands ....

Traditional Beekeeping in Eastern Yemen
A stop at Hajarayn, in Wadi Dawan, gave me the opportunity to meet a group of nomadic beekeepers working along the wadi, and to collect information about their activities and organization. The following is an extract from the recorded interview carried out at the time...

We bring up the bees ourselves. We capture wild swarms in the mountains and the rest we buy at the annual bee market Hives are made of mud, of clay For us there is little danger from the stings; we are used to them, they do not hurt. Even if I get stung a hundred times! There is no venom We are very experienced.

To extract the honey we use smoke that forces the bees to come out and move away. Then we take off the cover and the comb is extracted with a knife. It is put into boxes or larger containers by hand. We do not use equipment; everything is done using our hands and some smoke
Arabs have kept bees for a long time, since the time of the Quran, God knows, perhaps even before the Prophet Honey takes prime place in traditional Arab medicine.

We will stay in this area for forty days, then we will extract the honey and move camp going northwards, for 3 or 4 hours by car. When we see the right place, where rains have fallen, we stop. Rain falls in spring, a little in summer, and then in autumn; in winter there is not much rain and it is cold.

There is no fatigue in this work, we only get tired when we move. We have to load the pickup and then unload We leave at night, after sunset. We travel, we unload, everything has to be finished before the light of dawn We move from place to place with Gods blessings, together with the bees, depending on the seasons

Traditional Remedy

The magazine Weekly World News, published in Canada dated 17 January, 1995 has given a list of diseases that can be cured by Honey and Cinnamon as researched by scientists.

 It is found that mixture of Honey and Cinnamon cures most of the diseases.
  Honey is produced in most of the countries of the world.
Ayurvedic as well as Yunani medicine have been using honey as a vital medicine for centuries.
  Scientists of today also accept honey as a Ram Ban (very effective) medicine for all kinds of diseases.
Honey can be used without any side effects for any kind of diseases.
 Today's science says that even though honey is sweet, if taken in the right dosage as a medicine, it does not harm diabetic patients also.

Arthritis
Take one part honey to two parts of luke warm water and add a small teaspoon of cinnamon powder, make a paste and massage it on the itching part of the body slowly.
 It is noticed that the pain recedes within a minute or two.
  Or arthritis patients may daily, morning and night take one cup of hot water with two spoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder.
If drunk regularly even chronic arthritis can be cured.
 In a recent research done at the Copenhagen University, it was found that when the doctors treated their patients with a mixture of one tablespoon Honey and half teaspoon cinnamon powder before breakfast, they found that within a week out of the 200 people so treated practically 73 patients were totally relieved of pain and within a month, mostly all the patients who could not walk or move around because of arthritis walking without pain.

Hair Loss
 Those suffering from hair loss or baldness, may  a paste of hot olive oil, one tablespoon of honey, one teaspoon of cinnamon powder before bath and keep it for approx. 15 min. and then wash the hair.
  It was found very effective if kept for 5 mins. also.

Bladder Infections
Take two tablespoons of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of honey in a glass of luke warm water and drink it.
  It destroys the germs of the bladder.

Toothache
Make a paste of one teaspoon of cinnamon powder and five teaspoons of honey and  on the aching tooth.
 This may be done 3 times a day daily till such time that the tooth has stopped aching.

Cholesterol
Two tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of Cinnamon Powder mixed in 16 ounces of tea water, if given to a cholesterol patient, it reduces the level of cholesterol in the blood by 10% within 2 hours.
As mentioned for arthritic patients, if taken 3 times a day any chronic cholesterol is cured.
 As per the information received in the said journal, pure honey taken with food daily relieves complains of cholesterol.

Colds
 Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon luke warm honey with 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon powder daily for 3 days.
  This process will cure most chronic cough, cold and clear the sinuses.Infertility
Yunani and Ayurvedic have been using honey for years in medicine to strengthen the semen of men.
 If impotent men regularly take two tablespoon of honey before sleeping, their problem will be solved.
 In China, Japan and Far-East countries, women who do not conceive and to strengthen the uterus have been taking cinnamon powder for centuries.
 Women who cannot conceive may take a pinch of cinnamon powder in half teaspoon of honey and  it on the gums frequently throughout the day, so that it slowly mixes with the saliva and enters the body.
  A couple in Merryland, America had no children for 14 years and had left hope of having a child of their own.
When told about this process husband and wife  taking honey and cinnamon as stated above, the wife conceived after a few months and had twins at full term.

Upset Stomach
 Honey taken with cinnamon powder cures stomach ache and also clears stomach ulcers from the root.
 GAS : According to the studies done in India & Japan, it is revealed that if honey is taken with cinnamon powder the stomach is relieved of gas.

Heart Diseases
  Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder,on bread or chappati instead of jelly and jam and eat it regularly for breakfast.
It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart attack.
 Also those who have already had an attack, if they do this process daily, are kept miles away from the next attack.
 Regular use of the above process relieves loss of breath and strengthens the heartbeat.
 In America and Canada, various nursing homes have treated patients successfully and have found that due to the increasing age the arteries and veins which lose their flexibility and get clogged are revitalized.

Immune System
- Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks.
Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts.
 Constant use of honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacteria and viral diseases.

Indigestion
  Cinnamon powder sprinkled on two tablespoons of honey taken before food, relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals.

Influenza
A scientist in Spain has proved that honey contains a natural ingredient which kills the influenza germs and saves the patient from flu.

Longevity
 Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder, when taken regularly arrests the ravages of old age.
  Take 4 spoons of honey, 1spoon of cinnamon powder and 3 cups of water and boil to make like tea.
  Drink 1/4 cup, 3 to 4 times a day. It keeps the skin fresh and soft and arrests old age.
Life span also increases and even if a person is 100 years old, performing the chores of a 20 year old.

Pimples
  Three tablespoons of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder paste.
-  this paste on the pimples before sleeping and wash it next morning with warm water.
If done daily for two weeks, it removes pimples from the root.

Skin Infections
  Eczema, ringworm and all types of skin infections are cured by  honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts on the affected parts.

Weight Loss
Daily in the morning, 1/2 hour before breakfast on an empty stomach and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one cup water.
  If taken regularly it reduces the weight of even the most obese person.
Also drinking of this mixture regularly does not allow the fat to accumulate in the body even though the person may eat a high calorie diet.

Cancer
 Recent research in Japan and Australia has reveled that advanced cancer of the stomach and bones have been cured successfully.
  Patients suffering from these kinds of cancer should daily take one tablespoon of honey with one teaspoon of cinnamon powder for one month 3 times a day.

Fatigue
Recent studies have shown that the sugar content of honey is more helpful than detrimental to the body strength.
 Senior citizens who take honey and cinnamon power in equal parts are more alert and flexible.
 Dr. Milton who has done research says that half tablespoon honey taken in one glass of water and sprinkled with cinnamon powder, taken daily after brushing and in the afternoon at about 3.00 p.m. when the vitality of the body decreasing, increases the vitality of the body within a week.

Bad Breath
 People of South America, first thing in the morning gargle with one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon powder mixed in hot water.
So their breath stays fresh throughout the day.

Hearing Loss
Daily morning and night honey and cinnamon powder taken in equal parts restore hearing