I've heard two alternatives to the 'honey for allergies' topic:
(1) Eating honey from your local area is good for the reasons
already stated (you are getting, gastroentestinally, the pollens
that through your respiratory system set up the allergic
reactions)
 
(2) Eating honey from the area you were born is good for you,
with the explanation along the lines that allergic reactions
generally are 'set up' in your system at birth or during youth,
so the pollens from THAT area are the ones that will help to
desensitise you.
 
I've never got it clear in my mind, though, that since it is
primarily the windborne, non-insect-collected pollens that cause
most peoples' hayfevers, how is it that bee pollen is supposed to
help?
 
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          Nick Wallingford
      Bay of Plenty Polytechnic
 (East coast, N Island, New Zealand)
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