Homemade Immunity Honey

If there’s one thing I love to do is it’s the ability to take things in our environment and make something wonderful but also natural at the same time!

Sickness is sadly something that happens in households with kids, they tend to be a germ magnet in certain scenarios. The little man is usually good about not getting sick but even he succumbs to the demon every so often. This recently was the case! We’ve been trying to keep some tricks up our sleeves though to help him get through it! I’ve been listening to a lot of great podcasts lately and I recently heard one where they were using garlic to help get rid of sickness, particularly in kids.

Having a kid you may be wondering how you can get them to possibly eat something as strong as garlic? I am dubious as well but we’ve given it a try and it’s not the garlic itself, though they can eat it if they choose to but it’s the oils from the garlic that are doing the magic here.

For us, we’ve had a number of jars of honey in the house, we’ve gotten some from the farm that we get our food from the last few years and we don’t eat through it that quickly so thankfully we have some in the cabinet. What it means sitting there though is that it tends to solidify! A little boiling water does the trick to thin it right back out. That’s step 1 of this process for us.

The second step is to marinate the honey with the garlic. You have to crush the cloves so that it lets out all the magical juices and really kicks the honey up a notch. The recipe called for 4 cloves but I felt that was a little stronger than I wanted to use, since the little man hasn’t really consumed garlic too much except in powdered form on a salad. I crushed two cloves and popped em in the mason jar!

I filled the mason jar with the last remaining honey from one of the bottles because it was on the way out anyways so I figured let’s use it up and get another thing out of the cabinet and into use. It felt good to be able to use most of the things that we already have in our house cabinets!

Pop those crushed garlic cloves in and you’re starting the process!

Here’s where the spices come in. There were a few different spices to add to the little concoction but I opted to remove cayenne as I was thinking it probably would give him a little stomach ache so I gave that one a pass lol.

The spices that the woman was recommending were ones that we’ve got in great supply in the cabinets for various reasons. Turmeric and cinnamon. I love me some turmeric but man is turmeric a magic star. The curcumin in there is a powerhouse of activity from all kinds of angles but it does great at helping the body fight stuff off. I may add a dash of black pepper in there, as studies show that black pepper mixed with curcumin really sets the stuff off for whatever reason. Can’t add too much though, for kids you have to keep the spice level down!

A little bit of delicious Saigon cinnamon and we’ve got a mixture! I love cinnamon for various things but on the immunity front here, what it’s really doing besides helping with blood sugar levels is to help make the mixture palatable. Kids are fussy when something doesn’t taste the best so it’s definitely a good idea to make what we are mixing for them taste as good as it can be. The garlic can add quite a flavor but the cinnamon takes it down quite a bit which is great.

The last step is to give it all a nice mix! I was able to put this thing together in 5 minutes flat once I knew what her recipe was. It took me a little bit to figure out her recipe because I couldn’t remember when she mentioned it but it was easy once I got to it. We can take this hourly throughout the day, I plan on giving this to the little man every 90 minutes or so as he will allow. We should hopefully be rid of the cold shortly after this one posts but I’m writing it ahead of time so fingers crossed it works. It tastes great, I already took a small spoon of it to taste it. I made the batch for him so that we don’t have to give him the trash from the drug stores and can help him with something more natural for his body and better for him long term. Plus it helps us reconnect back a bit with the importance of how good is quite literally medicine!