Dear hippies.

[tyggerjai]

So. I have been constantly sniffling since about April. At some point, I will get along to see a doctor, who will probably say "Yes, your house is full of mold since they ripped the floors up, and you're allergic to it, move out." and charge me for the privilege, but in the meantime....

One of my friends, who is not actually that much of a fucking hippy, despite being a yoga teacher, says a friend of hers, who possibly is a fucking hippy, was saying that chronic allergies and especially hayfever can be alleviated by eating honey produced by local bees. It's probably even worse than fucking hippies, it's probably downright homeopathy, but what the hell, it's probably worth a try. I've found Rooftop honey, which is definitely fucking hippy, but I'm not sure that a) I want to pay $15 for 450 grams of honey, or b) Heidelberg and Donvale are quite local enough. While I realise that there are unlikely to be cheap bees in, say, Fitzroy, can anyone recommend another source of "local honey" in Melbourne.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

The principle, which I'm not sure of the science soundness, involves allergies to the local pollen, and the presence of enough of that local pollen in the honey to convince the immune system that you're not dying of it, and to please STFU. So if it's mold allergies at the root of it, I am entirely unconvinced that honey would help.

Mold allergies

[erudito.livejournal.com]

I agree. Try pineapple juice every morning, it has a natural anti-histamine effect.

[foxfirefey]

So far it sounds like studies haven't found any benefits:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/health/10really.html