I have just sent off another reply to a recovered allergy sufferer who has found that honey has helped tremendously. I had allergy problems with hay ( the real stuff) spring pollens, molds from the earliest part of my life that I can remember.I was dragged from one doctor to another with no positive lasting effect. I had relief only as long as one dose of medicine lasted and not always then. I moved from New England to the Pacific in 1944 and thereafter had asthma so badly that the base doctors wanted to ship me home, there were days that I felt sure I would suffocate. That never happened and I completed my Pacific tour in 1946. For many years thereafter I suffered badly from asthma then to the 1980'sI found a good respiratory allergist who used injections to increase my resistance.I had some noticable relief but no ceasation. In 1990 I was introduced to beekeeping and thereafter ate a lot of honey, and was frequently stung. Since then I have had no asthma but one summer of terrible hyperventilation problems probably from nervous conditions. The asthma has now not occured in 3 years. I used to have a great deal of sinusitis or hayfever, and got it from a number of sources, the mold or pollen content of a spring fed lake where I went regularly and still do. Everyone would say "What a terrible cold you have" because my nose was so irritated. So embarassing.This too has simply disappeared. If only my mental condition would improve and my age decline all would be well. So far no one has comeup with the fountain of youth so I'll just be happy with improved health in the respiratory department. Proof of honey as a allergy relief, I can not give, but there appears to be a relation.Several of my friends are also having good experience with honey and do not get stung as I do.