# A profitable instruction of the perfect ordering of Bees/First Treatise/Chapter 28

How profitable the vſe of Honny is in medicines. Cap. xxviij.
{{bl|FIrſte the white Honye is to be vſed in cooling Medicines, but the yealowe in heating medicines: alſo the nature and ​propertie of honny, is to clenſe and open, and to expel humors. Therefore it is profitably applyed in flithy vlcers, being boyled and annoynted vpon. It cloſeth alſo looſe and gaping fleſhe through his wholeneſſe. Alſo with Liquid Alume & honny ſodden togither, are Ringwormes, and cornes or ſwelling of the feete healed, by annoynting therewith. Againſt the vncertaine ſoundings and noyſe of the eares, and grieuous pains of them, the hony grounded with that ſalte digged out of the earth, and dropped warme into the eares: the ſelfe ſame killeth both nits and lyce, by only annointing the heade therewith. Alſo the hony purgeth the eyes dimme of ſight, healeth the ſwellings, and other defaultes and griefes of the iawes, the ſwellings and kernels vnder the iawes, neare to the throte, after the preparing to vſe, the ſame be gargelled in the throate, and the mouth waſhed therewith. The honie eaten cauſeth vryne, helpeth ye cough (being cleane ſkimmed before) and the byte of a Snake or Adder. The hony alſo helpeth thoſe which haue drunke vnwares the iuyce of blacke Poppie, ſo that againſte the ſame euill and daunger they drinke roſed honny warme. Alſo the ſame drunke helpeth the malice and daunger of Muſhromes eaten, and the byte of a madde dogge, or otherwiſe melting in the mouth, after the forme of an}} Eclegma. Yet all the ſortes of rawe Honny be windie and ſwell the bodie, mouing a rumbling or noyſe in the belly, procuring ye cough, eaſily cōuerted into euil humors, ſtopping the liuer and the milt through the clammineſſe, and hurtfull to chollericke bodies, if ſo be the honny before (as Dioſcorides {{bl|writeth) be not throughly ſkimmed and clenſed as the ſame ought to be. The honny alſo boyled doth better nouriſhe then the rawe, yet leſſe mouing the belly to ſolubleneſſe, and to the ſtoole. And the honny of it ſelfe, or mixed with other helpeth the ſore in the lungs and all other diſeaſes of the lungs. The honny is rightly miniſtred to ſuch as haue the impoſtume in the lungs and the plureſie. And the hony is which dead Bees are, is applyed to the venemous honny. The honny drunke with wine helpeth the corruptiōs which are engendred of the meate fiſhes. But to colde and moyſte bodies the honny is more ​profitable, therfore verie fitte for olde perſons, as}} Galen affirmeth. And to perſons being twentie yeares of age, and of an vntemperate boteneſſe, or others hote of qualitie, the honny to them is hurtefull, bycauſe it is ſoone conuerted into choller in them. Democritus was on a time aſked, by what meanes men might both continue in perfite health, and liue vnto very old yeares, to which he thus anſwered: if ſo be men annoint their bodies outwarde with Oyle, and apply their bodies inwarde with honny. Further honny profiteth weake perſons, being applyed as the Mulſe water, of which ſhal after be taught in the next chapter. To perſons cold of nature, the honie may aptly be miniſtred in hote broth, but to hote perſons miniſtred in warme brothe, the honie is not rightly giuen. The hnny mixed with Camphora, & lying to ſettle three dayes before, with the which annointing the face, doth ſpeedily clenſe the ſpots in the face: the ſelf ſame doth the honie, mixed with the gall of an Oxe. The pure white honie clenſeth the breaſt, ſoftneth Impoſtumes, being as well without, as within the bodie. The hony alſo mundifyeth, openeth the ſtoppings of the Liuer and Mylte, helpeth dropſie bodies, and ſtrengthneth weake members. The Aromaticke honny much auayleth in ſundrie diſeaſes, being thus prepared, as the pure redde Roſe leaues finely clipped, and after boyled in pure white honie, being often and diligentlye ſkymmed. For ſuch a Honnye doeth comforte and mundifye, diſſolueth in the clenſing the clammy ſwellings, digeſteth the fleumaticke and groſſe humors, and drunke alſo with colde water, it bindeth the bellie, but miniſtred with warm water it looſeth the bellie.