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Originally Posted by gardenerjoy
Yep, I'm way off the rails. I figured out yesterday that allergies are the root cause of these dark days. There's not much I can do to fix them, but I can eat better -- so, I will.
Joy, allergies can be living **** (Hades) . I had allergies so bad that I had to wear dust masks from early Jan til March. Nose constantly running like the Amazon, eyes delivering enough water to take care of the garden.... Went to an allergiest who said I needed a test to see what I was allergic to. I took test, I think it was only giving blood, so long I do not recall. But it cost 100 bucks, and he says come back next week. For three weeks I did that.. then asked him when was he going to do whatever to stop the allergies. He says when he has all the tests ran. So I told him I wanted them over with and came twice a week for a month. I saw that was going nowhere so I stopped. That was 35 years ago and 200 bucks a week was a lot of money in those days.
A few years later after I had started keeping bees and was reading up on them a lot, I kept reading that eating cappings wax, the wax that is sliced thinly off the top of the honeycomb in order to extract the honey cured people of their allergies. I thought it was just so much BS and poo-pooed the idea. Finally one time as I was de-capping a bunch of combs we had in for extraction, I thought what the hek and ate some from the cappings tray. I like honey but never did like the wax. And still didn't. And still don't. However, the next day my allergies were almost gone. And a few days later I was allergy free and stayed that way for years. Made a believer of me.
I left out the part above that the cappings wax has to be from a LOCAL beekeeper so the bees will have collected pollens from about every sort of plant. What happens is, though bees do not mix pollen with honey, some is on their feet as they cross over where the honey is being capped and leave it where it is mixed in with the wax on top, a pure thin white wax which keeps the honey in the cell. There, in the cappings was is an assortment of the pollens from the area where the bees collect pollen for raising their young.
The body reacts to pollens that enter through our nostrils as enemy and attacks them. But if those same pollens are eaten the body recognizes them as food... and no allergic reaction.
You might want to try that. The hardest part will be finding a local beekeeper willing to part with some cappings wax.
Good luck Joy, I do know your discomfort.
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TinyMilkGoddess , 04-02-2015 07:04 PM
gardenerjoy , 04-03-2015 09:37 AM
CakeGirl75 , 04-03-2015 12:33 PM
Oh boy! Just what I needed. I am in! I will start Sat. April 4th
Big Fat Rooster , 04-04-2015 10:45 AM
"It is a shame for a woman to grow old without ever seeing the strength and beauty of which her body is capable."
nickilaughs , 04-05-2015 09:28 PM
