EUCALYPTUS HONEY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19986, 29 June 1920, Page 6

EUCALYPTUS HONEY.

There is a honey, the product of tho small black boe of Australia which frequents tho eucalyptus trees with which tho colony abounds. The honey is of a golden colour and almost candied in our climate; but when heated it becomes quite syrupy. Its odour and flavour clearly indicate its source (tho eucalyptus essem es forming one-third ot its bulk) and classify it as a honey not like any other. This product is interesting from tho fact of being yielded by those remarkable trees, oiicalypts. tho anti-malarial and Ilying properties of which have causes them to be transplanted to othei parts of the world with a view to rendering habitable unhealthy districts. The eucalyptus owes most of its therapeutical properties to a volatile oil contained in the leaves, which oil acts as a febrifuge in fevers, especially fyphoidal and malarial, and as a stimulant and anti-spasmodic in asthma, bronchitis, and whooping 7 cough. Eucalyptus honey, thanks to the energy and industry of the bee, is a product that contains, according to an anilysis published in a French medical jeurnn 1 , ail tho essences to be found in the oncalyp-tus-leat, in combination with about GO per cent of sugar in its purest form. It is used as a homely and simple remedy for coughs, bronchitis, asthma and whooping-cough, while in feverish conditions it has, it is stated, given satisfaction. Being sweet and not nnpkot*ant in flavour, it is very acceptable to children, to whom it is administered either in hot milk, hot tot, or bat water; from one to four teaspoonfnls in either of tho above-mentioned vehicles will cause in a short time a feeling of warmth to pervade the body.