Rose honey

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Rose honey (loan translation from Middle Latin mel rosatum ) is a glycerol - honey mixture flavored with rose oil , which is used medicinally. Rose honey has been a pharmaceutical preparation that has been known since the middle of the 15th century at the latest, earlier a preparation (as a boiled mixture) of honey and rose petals (also later a honey mixed with rose petal water), and was most recently in supplement 6 (EB 6) to the German Pharmacopoeia monographed as a medicinal product.

Mel rosatum is to be distinguished from the honey grazed by bees on rose petals (rose petal honey), from the "rose honey" produced in Provins ( miel à la rose de Provins ) and from various types of honey flavored with rose petals or rose water .

Manufacturing

Rose honey is made by dissolving 0.005 parts of rose oil in a mixture of 90 parts of honey (pharmacopoeia quality) and 10 parts of 85% glycerol with gentle heating.

history

Title page of the Neuw Vollkommentlich Kreuterbuch , edition from 1625

Rose honey (mel rosatum) was described in Tabernaemontanus' (Jacob Theodor) book of herbs in 1588 as a remedy for inflammation in the mouth and abdomen. Rose honey mixed with borax was used in folk medicine to treat aphthae . The addition of borax is no longer permitted today because of its toxicity.

In a recipe from 1570, two pounds of rose petals and six pounds of honey are needed to make Mel rosatum .

Rose honey is used as a natural remedy to relieve teething pain in toddlers by spreading it on the gums.

Trivia

From the drama The Conceited Sick by Molière :

“ An enema thirty sous! - Obedient servant, I have already told you; You have given me twenty sous in other bills, and twenty sous in the pharmacist's language means ten; so let's write ten sous. "Item, from the same date, a good purifying enema, put together according to instructions from double catholicon, rhubarb, rose honey and other ingredients to sweep, rinse and clean Mr. Argan's abdomen, thirty sous." With your permission, ten sous. "Item, from the same date a hepatic, soporative and sleep-inducing julep to get Mr. Argan to sleep, thirty-five sous ."

Nowadays, honey is made germ-free beforehand for production as a medicine, especially for small children. It is of the opinion that the pathogen Clostridium botulinum can occur in natural honey , which is a cause of sudden infant death syndrome . Clostridium botulinum forms a paralyzing poison, botulinum toxin , which causes botulism . According to this theory, the dose that can be present in honey is harmless for adults. In the infant, however, the intestinal flora is not yet fully developed and offers the bacterium an environment for reproduction and toxin formation. The toxin gets into the bloodstream and causes respiratory paralysis. In fact, in a series of autopsies, Clostridium botulinum was found in 9 of 211 children who died from sudden infant death syndrome. In another study, botulinum toxin was found in 9 of 75 autopsy cases, including 57 children who died from sudden infant death syndrome.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Thode: The 'Lexicon plantarum' (manuscript 604 of the Munich University Library). A forerunner of the German herb book incunabula, part III. Mathematical and scientific dissertation Berlin 1942, p. 25 f. ("Mel rosatum sic fit: [...]").
  2. ↑ Günter Brachvogel: The 'Münchner Salbenbuch'. A late medieval recipe collection from the end of the 15th century. Mathematical and scientific dissertation, Munich 1973, p. 216.
  3. ↑ H. v. Tappeiner : Textbook of drug theory and drug prescription theory ... , 4th edition. Leipzig 1901, p. 46.
  4. ^ Hermann Hager, W. Blaschek, Rudolf Hansel, K. Keller: Hager's handbook of pharmaceutical practice . Ed .: Hermann Hager. 5th edition. tape 3 : Drugs L-Z . Springer, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-540-61619-5 , pp. 456 ff .
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  7. ↑ H. Reimann: Boron compounds in recipes. In: Pharmaceutical newspaper. 145, 2000, p. 102.
  8. ↑ S. Lang: Rhinologics containing borax are prohibited. In: Pharmaceutical newspaper. 145, 2000, pp. 26-28.
  9. ↑ Otto Zekert (Ed.): Dispensatorium pro pharmacopoeis Viennensibus in Austria 1570. Berlin 1938, p. 62.
  10. ↑ Katholikon. In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon. 4th edition. Volume 9 (1888), p. 616.
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  11. ↑ The Imaginary Sick Act 1, scene 1 on zeno.org .
  12. ↑ SS Arnon et al .: Intestinal infection and toxin production by Clostridium botulinum as one cause of sudden infant death syndrome. In: Lancet. 1 (8077), June 17, 1978, pp. 1273-1277. PMID 78045 .
  13. ↑ H. Bohnel et al: Is there a link between infant botulism and sudden infant death? Bacteriological results obtained in central Germany. In: Eur. J. Pediatr. 160 (10), 2001, pp. 623-628. PMID 11686509 .