Wellness Honey

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We love local honey, because it's super delicious as a natural sweetener, and it may contribute benefits of its own that have been valued for millennia. Research suggests that local, raw honey may help: counteract environmental allergens, promote sleep naturally, act as healing remedy for everything from wounds to coughs, provide a healthy antioxidant source and preserve food without chemicals. Raw honey is also a potent source of prebiotics, nourishing the probiotics that help enhance digestive & overall health.

We also love mushrooms and the biotherapeutic, adaptogenic & neuroregenerative benefits they may provide - studies suggest that Reishi, Lion’s Mane, Cordyceps, Chaga & Turkey Tail may help: reduce to inflammation & pain, enhance brain function, regulate blood sugar & pressure, fight fatigue, promote digestion & pulmonary health, and even act as an anti-viral (just to name a few). However, these mushrooms are often taken in extract form, which can be extremely bitter and unpleasant.

We decided to combine two of our favorite things into something that would complement & compound the potential beneficial properties into amazing homeopathic powerhouses that you enjoy. Our proprietary full-double broad spectrum mushroom extracts of Reishi Immune Impact, Lion's Mane Head Honey, Cordyceps Body Boost are blended with raw local honey in creamed form to ensure the mushroom is consistently distributed throughout the honey. Creamed honey is pure & completely raw - it’s simply cured to have a more consistent, spreadable texture.

It's delicious in tea, on food or alone.

Check out our offerings in our Mercantile, Buie’s Market, Robinhood Integrative Health & the Asheville Bee Charmer. We are also at Cobblestone Farmers Market, and Davidson Farmers Market each Saturday. We look forward to seeing you!

Note: While studies of mushrooms are more than promising across the world and in the US, the FDA has not evaluated these statements and are not intended to cure, treat or prevent any disease. We always recommend that you evaluate use with your health care professional to ensure best results.

Like a good read? Check out some of the ongoing research into Reishi, Lion’s Mane, Cordyceps & other mushrooms. If you'd like to explore further, we recommend the National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine as a great starting point.

REISHI MUSHROOM NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STUDIES:

Herbal Medicine: Biomolecular and Clinical Aspects. 2nd edition. Chapter 9: Ganoderma lucidum (Lingzhi or Reishi) - A Medicinal Mushroom Sissi Wachtel-Galor, John Yuen, John A. Buswell, and Iris F. F. Benzie. Boca Raton (FL): CRC Press/Taylor & Francis; 2011. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92757/#ch9_sec9

Mushroom Polysaccharides: Chemistry and Antiobesity, Antidiabetes, Anticancer, and Antibiotic Properties in Cells, Rodents, and Humans Mendel Friedman Charles Brennan, Academic Editor PMCID: PMC5302426 2016 Nov 29. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5302426

Immune Modulation from Five Major Mushrooms: Application to Integrative Oncology Alena G. Guggenheim, ND, Kirsten M. Wright, BS, and Heather L. Zwickey, PhD, PMCID: PMC4684115 2014 Feb; 13(1): 32–44, Copyright ©2014 InnoVision Professional Media https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4684115/

Indian Medicinal Mushrooms as a Source of Antioxidant and Antitumor Agents Thekkuttuparambil A. Ajith1 and Kainoor K. Janardhanan PMCID: PMC2275760 2007 May; 40(3): 157–162 Copyright © 2007 JCBN J Clin Biochem Nutr https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2275760/

Edible Mushrooms: Improving Human Health and Promoting Quality Life María Elena Valverde, Talía Hernández-Pérez, and Octavio Paredes-López Academic Editor: Maurizio Sanguinetti PMCID: PMC4320875 2015 Jan 20. Copyright © 2015 María Elena Valverde et al. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4320875/

lION’S MANE MUSHROOM NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STUDIES:

Neurotrophic properties of the Lion's mane medicinal mushroom, Hericium erinaceus Lai PL, Naidu M, Sabaratnam V, Wong KH, David RP, Kuppusamy UR, Abdullah N, Malek SN. PMID: 24266378 2013 Nov 26 Copyright © 2015 Lai Puei-Lene, et al. & International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24266378

Neuronal Health – Can Culinary and Medicinal Mushrooms Help? Vikineswary Sabaratnam, Wong Kah-Hui, Murali Naidu and Pamela Rosie David PMID: 24716157 2013 Jan-Mar © Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3924982/

Dietary Supplementation of Hericium erinaceus Increases Mossy Fiber-CA3 Hippocampal Neurotransmission and Recognition Memory in Wild-Type Mice Federico Brandalise, Valentina Cesaroni, Andrej Gregori, Margherita Repetti, Chiara Romano, Germano Orrù, Laura Botta, Carolina Girometta, Maria Lidia Guglielminetti, Elena Savino and Paola Rossi PMID: 28115973 2017 Jan 01 © 2017 Federico Brandalise et al. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5237458/

The Neuroprotective Properties of Hericium erinaceus in Glutamate-Damaged Differentiated PC12 Cells and an Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Model Junrong Zhang, Shengshu An, Wenji Hu, Meiyu Teng, Xue Wang, Yidi Qu, Yang Liu, Ye Yuan and Di Wang PMID: 27809277 2016 Nov 17 © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5133811/

Chemistry, Nutrition, and Health-Promoting Properties of Hericium erinaceus (Lion's Mane) Mushroom Fruiting Bodies and Mycelia and Their Bioactive Compounds Friedman M PMID: 26244378 2015 Aug 19 © 2016 Friedman M; J Agric Food Chem & USDA https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26244378

CORDYCEPS MUSHROOM NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STUDIES:

Protective effects on mitochondria and anti-aging activity of polysaccharides from cultivated fruiting bodies of Cordyceps militaris. Li XT, Li HC, Li CB, Dou DQ, Gao MB. PMID: 21061463 2010 Nov 10 © 2012 The Authors; The American Journal of Chinese Medicine https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21061463

The genus Cordyceps: a chemical and pharmacological review. Yue K, Ye M, Zhou Z, Sun W, Lin X. PMID: 23488776 2013 April © 2012 The Authors. JPP © 2012. Royal Pharmaceutical Society. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23488776

Cordycepin suppresses the migration and invasion of human liver cancer cells by downregulating the expression of CXCR4. Guo Z, Chen W, Dai G, Huang Y, PMID: 31746344 2019 Oct 31 © 2019 The Authors; International Journal of Molecular Medicine https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31746344

Radical Scavenging and Antiproliferative Effects of Cordycepin-Rich Ethanol Extract from Brown Rice-Cultivated Cordyceps militaris (Ascomycetes) Mycelium on Breast Cancer Cell Lines. Wu HC, Chen ST, Chang JC, Hsu TY, Cheng CC, Chang HS, Liu CS, Wu YC and Liang ZC PMID: 31679300 2019 © 2019 The Authors; International Journal of Medicinal Mushroom https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31679300

A comparative study of the antimicrobial, antioxidant, and cytotoxic activities of methanol extracts from fruit bodies and fermented mycelia of caterpillar medicinal mushroom Cordyceps militaris (Ascomycetes). Dong CH, Yang T, Lian T PMID: 25271983 2014 © 2014 The Authors; International Journal of Medicinal Mushroom https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25271983