ABSTRACT
According to Joshi and Godbole (1970), Susrutaa famous surgeon in India around 1400 BC in Ayurvedic times - recognized eight varieties of honey produced from various plants by honey bees, stingless bees and wasps. Honey was praised greatly in the Veda, sacred books collected together about 1000 BC by Aryan people who moved into the Indus and Ganges valleys (Section 54.33); honey made life sweet, and was widely beneficial; it should be eaten by students of religion and philosophy; indeed, it should be eaten by all human beings. 'Let one take honey along with our valued diets to beautify his appearance, develop his brain faculty and strengthen his body. With honey he would digest properly all the foods' (Mullick, 1944).
