Sixty-eight recipes have been counted for the treatment of 28 affections or symptoms.
Therapeutic uses of honey have been documented in 33 villages of five departments divided according to three phytogeographical zones of Benin. Results showed that honey is used in the treatment of 28 symptoms or medicomagic diseases of which most quoted are respiratory diseases (24.49%), the unrests of memory (23.21%), illnesses of skin and wounds (11.92%), fever (11.41%), and gastrointestinal unrests (10.90%). The quoted illnesses vary according to the townships’ and the groups’ sociolinguistic parameters. Sixty-eight recipes have been counted for the treatment of 28 affections or symptoms. The most rich in recipes are gastrointestinal illnesses (14.71%) and the respiratory illnesses (13.24%). The oral way (74.48%) is the principal administration way of products. Honey remains an important product in Beninese traditional medicine.