Hungary has very many great beekeepers. I always bought very good, local honey as its taste was way superior.
As honey for colds and similar stuff is a very common medicine and I loved the taste, I tried it plenty of times when I was a kid. It never ever ever ever did anything at all.
I don’t care if it’s good for others, it does exactly NOTHING to help in my own case.
I had a time when I ate several kilograms of honey per year 
And way less sugar. I never understood how people eat that 800g sugar a week (once I have read that). Yeah, I can calculate it from various stuff but… But I ate very much. And sweets as the final part of my meals and not a small amount. And I wasn’t anywhere close to that. Okay, I didn’t drink sugary drinks (or that was homemade and I think I didn’t overdo sweetening even on high-carb ages ago), maybe that’s why.
(Eating over 300g carbs a day is odd to me as well. As I already epically overeat there. But I know it’s only because fat is my natural main macro on every diet/woe I can do.)
I never was particularly interested in experiments, at least beyond some basic interest at getting food for thought, they can’t often help me to make decisions about myself, that’s my own body’s job, it shows me what it likes though I needed to show you things it never experienced.
People are different, experiments are flawed… Honey won’t be good for me even if it magically becomes that for everyone else. I experimented enough, my final decision is done.
But onion soup very rarely failed me That is my cold medicine. Super effective in my case. I tried honey and then onion soup several times, even for the same cold if I could suffer for a while without my onion soup. Honey did nothing, every time. Onion soup worked in hours, like a charm, maybe it was only 90-95%, I don’t remember but not less.
Onion soup isn’t carnivore either but it’s not nearly as sugary and sweet and I am no carnivore anyway. I just like to stay very close most of the time. And I don’t need much onion for it, the rest can be fat, eggs, water and lots of vinegar, mmm. I loved that soup. I don’t eat it nowadays, onion is too sweet to me and only use it for stews but not in the usual onion/meat ratio, I need waaaaaaaaaaay less.
I am not against eating even high-carb if that helps with my once-per-decade cold but it just… Doesn’t. It only could make me more miserable if I overdid it. Even a little triggers tiny disagreeing nudges from my body. Nothing unpleasant, even a high-carb day needs some effort to trigger something noticeably negative but I do feel it’s not my way.
So nope, not honey. I can live without it despite it being one of the top tastiest things in the world and the best tasting sweetener (wide meaning, it makes things sweeter), hands down for me.
Can’t beat the tastiness of good pork chuck but nothing can beat that. Not like they are comparable but that never stopped me.
I have no allergies. But first of all, I am me.
I say absolutely nothing against anyone who use honey as medicine. But it is useless and even slightly bad for me. (Unless the enjoyment helps but I can eat something better with the same or more effect. Onion soup has vinegar and sour beats sweet in my case even if the sweet is honey… And warm sour liquid for a sore throat, that is amazing. Warm tea is nice too but it doesn’t help beyond the duration of drinking it and if I put anything in it, that’s lemon juice drops and definitely not honey. It’s not even good to use it in water I have heard.)
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