+1 on the local honey! There's a guy who works in my department and he keeps bees. He keeps me supplied with local honey. I just got a big ole jar from him last week of clover honey, it's very dark and VERY delicious! I don't know if it helps my allergies but it sure goes well with peanut butter toast!
+2 on the local honey. Unprocessed, raw honey's the best, or even the honey comb (chew it like gum for about 10 minutes). Start out with small doses, 1/4 teaspoon per day for about a week before upping the dosage - raw honey can have trace amounts of venom and bee parts floating around in it that can
cause an alergy, so if your throat gets irritated or starts to burn - stop. Also works on cuts and burns.
But, for me, it tastes best when fermented into mead. Here's 60lbs (5 gallon bucket) of blueberry honey that'll, one day, get turned into 15 gallons of mead.