Bee products and their use by humans

Bees are the only one of the vast class of insects that have served humans faithfully and faithfully for a long time, while remaining absolutely independent creatures. Indeed, beekeeping products are completely unique substances, without which it is difficult to imagine modern human life. And, despite the technological progress of recent decades, people have still not learned how to produce something similar artificially.

What do bees produce?

In fact, everything that can be found in bee hives can benefit humans, including even the dead bees themselves.

It is almost impossible to find a person who has never heard about honey and its healing properties.

1. Wax, as the main building material for bee colonies, it is also widely used by humans as a useful product.
2. Pollen, or bee pollen – the most easily accessible bee product.
3. Perga is an improved variety of pollen.
4. Royal jelly, on the contrary, it is a very difficult to obtain beekeeping product, which is also not easy to preserve.
5. Drone jelly - an equally difficult product to collect, not yet very popular, although known since ancient times.
6. Propolis - a product that bees use as glue to fasten and repair cells, has universal medicinal properties.
7. Zabrus combines many of the properties of wax, propolis and bee bread; it is an interesting product with a lot of useful qualities.
8. Dead bees - a beekeeping product, which is simply the bodies of dead bees.
9. Bee venom – in beekeeping, both stings of live bees and finished products with it are used.
10. Merva – feedstock for the production of wax and some other beekeeping products.

It is obvious that beekeeping products are very diverse both in the composition of ingredients and in their appearance. The effect of any bee products will be further enhanced if you combine them with honey or use them in combination.

The benefits and harms of bee products

Products from bees captivate not only with their healing properties, naturalness and versatility in use, but also with their complex effects on the human body.

In addition to their widespread use in the medical field, beekeeping products are widely used in more than 50 different industries.

In ancient times, honey was called a gift from the gods, sent to earth to make people happy.

Perhaps the most important benefit of beekeeping products is that, thanks to a completely unique and not fully understood composition, their use can have a universal, complex effect on the human body. Treat not just one specific disease or problem, but have a beneficial effect on all major life support systems. In addition, bees themselves are amazingly positive insects. And the products they create carry a great positive charge of good spirits and cheerfulness.

And beekeeping products, first of all, are good as a prophylactic agent. Many diseases will recede without even having time to manifest themselves if you make lifelong friends with the various products that these little hard-working bees produce and consume them regularly.

As for the harm that some beekeeping products can cause, much depends on the individual characteristics of the organism. Yes, unfortunately, some people’s bodies do not react quite adequately to eating bee products. They may exhibit a wide variety of allergy symptoms: from itching with rashes to swelling, including in the nasopharynx, which can be truly life-threatening. Fortunately, this happens infrequently; at the first suspicious signs, you should completely stop taking bee products and consult a doctor.

Some beekeeping products carry quite a lot of potential danger (for example, bee venom or death) and have many contraindications for their use.In addition, pollen and honey itself, obtained from some poisonous plants (azalea, aconite, rhododendron, wild rosemary, privet, mountain laurel, andromeda), are also poisonous. Therefore, in those regions where these plants can grow, you should be especially careful, because these products do not pose any danger to the bees themselves. The consumption of such “poisonous” honey and other products obtained from certain plants, of course, is not dangerous to human life, but with large doses, symptoms similar to a state of intoxication may appear: dizziness, loss of coordination, headaches, general weakness.

Beekeeping products and their use

Beekeeping products are interesting for their diversity, and, unlike honey, not all of them have a pleasant taste, color and consistency.

Honey

Honey is by far the most famous and palatable bee product.

Natural honey is a product of bees processing nectar and honeydew. Bees obtain nectar for the most part from flowers, sometimes on bracts, leaves or stems. Honeydew is a sugary waste product of various parasitic insects; bees collect it from shoots, leaves, bark and branches of trees. Accordingly, they distinguish between flower, honeydew and mixed varieties of honey. When honey is formed, complex chemical reactions occur, as a result of which, under the influence of the bees’ glands, a product with a unique composition is formed.

Honey ripens in each cell for 3-8 days, after which the bees seal it. Frames begin to be collected when the number of cells with mature honey is at least ¾ of their total number.Since unripe honey still contains about 30% water, it can spontaneously ferment and quickly deteriorate. Even using artificial ripening methods, it is impossible to achieve the usual healing properties from such a product, so it is important to track the number of cells with sealed, and therefore fully ripened, honey.

Since honey consists of more than 70% natural sugars: glucose, fructose and six other varieties, it is ideal to use for any type of preservation, instead of regular sugar. The safety of the product will be additionally ensured by the presence of many antimicrobial substances in honey, and, in addition, the digestibility of the preparations will increase.

The beneficial properties of honey are determined by its rich, unique composition. In addition to carbohydrates, it is also rich in proteins, especially honeydew varieties. Honey also contains many vitamins, amino acids and microelements. It also contains about 40 species of yeast and fungi, which play a beneficial role in the functioning of various human organs.

The main healing role of honey is that it activates all biological processes in the human body. But it should be remembered that honey cannot be heated above + 60 ° C, otherwise all its beneficial properties will be negated.

The taste and aroma of honey depend mainly on the plants from which the bees collected the nectar and honeydew.

According to taste, different types of honey are usually divided into cloying (from buckwheat and white acacia), sweet and moderate (from cottonseed and sweet clover, honeydew).Natural honey can also have a characteristic taste. Clover or raspberry honey has a delicate and subtle taste, while buckwheat and linden honey have a pungent taste. It can even be quite sharp and bitter, like honey obtained from tobacco or chestnut.

Different types of honey also differ in consistency, i.e. viscosity and slow or fast crystallization. Honey varieties also differ in color: they are colorless, golden-yellow, brownish, brown-green and even almost black.

Honey of different varieties is widely used in the food and confectionery industries. Cosmetic masks, shampoos, and creams are often made using natural honey. But its most valuable use is in herbal medicine and medicine. Honey can prevent and help solve the following health problems.

1. At home, it is the most powerful and effective antimicrobial agent.
2. Honey can help diabetic patients replace sugar in their diet.
3. The product is used as a sedative.
4. Improves the functioning of all digestive organs.
5. Honey neutralizes all manifestations of cardiovascular diseases;
6. Helps in the fight against anemia, gives strength and vigor;
7. The product helps with diseases of the skin, eyes, ears;
8. Honey can be used to effectively treat wounds;
9. Helps with poisoning, removing toxins and poisons from the body;
10. The product relieves joint pain, helps with arthritis and does much, much more.

Royal jelly

The name of this unique beekeeping product appeared due to the fact that bees use it to feed their babies - the larvae. Moreover, the process of feeding queen milk with milk lasts 5 days, while the larvae of ordinary worker bees and drones are fed it only for 3 days.

Milk is produced by the bees themselves; the most important property of this product is that it contains a program designed for cell growth and rejuvenation. After all, absolutely identical larvae receive nutrition in the form of royal jelly, but the output from them is a completely specific number of worker bees, queens and drones, necessary for a given bee colony. This means that royal jelly contains a kind of heredity code that helps maintain the viability of the bee colony.

And for humans, this means that royal jelly is able to protect the body from viruses, not destroying them, but laying in each cell a new program aimed at healing and growth. It is no coincidence that the most popular use of this product is the fight against aging and age-related changes in the human body. Even the most popular beekeeping products cannot compare with royal jelly in terms of potency. The use of this product is especially effective for pregnant and lactating women, since the program embedded in it has a beneficial effect on the intrauterine state of the child and its postpartum development.

When fresh, the color of royal jelly varies from white to cream, the taste can be sharp and sour, and the smell is quite specific. In addition, the product can only be kept fresh in the freezer. The only way to consume fresh royal jelly is to mix it with honey in a ratio of 1:100. The medical industry produces quite a lot of drugs with this product from bees - tablets, powders, emulsions, suppositories, ampoules. All of them are stored only in the refrigerator and without access to light.

Royal jelly is actively used in the perfume and cosmetics industry.

Pollen

Bees are excellent pollinators and thus help many fruit plants produce significant yields of fruits and berries. And they carry the collected pollen to the hive, pre-processing it with their salivary gland. As a result, the collected pollen resembles small multi-colored granules. One bee can deliver about 20 mg of pollen at a time. The color of pollen varies between yellow and brown shades, and each time depends on the plant from which it was collected. The composition of this product is very diverse and different. But in total it provides the content of more than 250 elements and substances.

In beekeeping, collecting pollen from bees is considered one of the simplest operations - it is enough to place special devices - pollen catchers - at the holes of the entrances. Thus, about 100 g of pollen can be collected from one bee colony in one day. And gain up to 5 kg during the season.

Bees use pollen both fresh and processed (beebread), and per year one family needs about 25-30 kg of this product to feed on high-quality vitamin and protein food.

Due to its diverse composition, pollen is actively used both in medicine and in cosmetics.

The introduction of the product into various creams and nourishing masks can significantly improve the condition of the skin, heal wounds and other damage.

And for medicinal purposes, this product is used both alone and in mixtures with honey (usually in a concentration of 1:1 to 1:4).Moreover, the dosage and specific method of using the product depend on the type of problem and the duration of the treatment course.

Pollen is capable of:

1. Have a positive effect on the functioning of the cardiovascular system, hematopoietic organs and muscular system.
2. Stimulate the functioning of the endocrine glands, the activity of the kidneys and adrenal glands.
3. Enrich the blood composition.
4. Have an antimicrobial effect against more than 30 types of bacteria and some fungi. Moreover, the antimicrobial effect of the product does not depend on temperature (it is preserved at both low and high temperatures up to + 120 ° C) and on the presence of sunlight.
5. To improve the condition of patients with physical and mental exhaustion, as well as the elderly.
6. Effectively help in the treatment of depression and alcoholism.

Perga

Perhaps bee bread can rightfully be considered one of the most unique beekeeping products. In folk medicine, its amazing healing properties have been known since ancient times. But official medicine recognized them relatively recently. Another name for bee bread is bread, and it is this product that bees feed their younger generation. It is also the main nutrition for the uterus.

Bee bread is produced by bees themselves from the pollen they bring. And this process is amazing in its essence. A worker bee, returning with a bribe, passes the collected nectar to other bees, but shakes off pollen on its own into special cells of the honeycomb. Other bees mechanically crush the pollen, process it with their salivary glands and add about 25% nectar to it. Then they stir again and tamp down to finally pour in honey.After the product has ripened, the most important and interesting thing happens - the insertion of a special biochemical code into it, which makes it possible to influence the growth processes of the younger generation. It is this code that is responsible for the formation of the most important life systems in the body of bees. And it is precisely thanks to its unique properties that beebread is capable of having a truly magical effect on the human body, incomparable to the influence of any beekeeping product.

The benefit of consuming this product from bees is not to cure any specific organ or help with a painful condition. Perga is able to restore order to the entire life support system of the human body. It is a kind of stimulant that triggers the body’s defenses, for a long period and without much additional energy expenditure. This is one of the main bee products to boost immunity.

Bee bread preparations play an important role in cosmetology. They effectively smooth out wrinkles, give the skin elasticity, radiance and additional tone. After several procedures of using bee bread, hair becomes soft and silky.

As for its use in medicine, the bee product bee bread can cope even with diseases that are considered in many cases practically incurable:

• cerebrovascular accidents;
• traumatic brain injuries;
• sexual disorders and infertility in men;
• pathologies of pregnancy, infertility and gynecological diseases in women;
• heart attacks and strokes;
• anemia;
• all kinds of allergies and skin diseases, including psoriasis;
• alcoholism and drug addiction.

Bee bread is a product in the form of small granules, quite pleasant to the taste, with a slightly noticeable characteristic aroma of honey.

Propolis

Propolis is also sometimes called bee glue, since bees produce it by processing resinous substances of organic origin, which they collect from the buds, shoots and bark of trees and shrubs. With the help of this product, bees repair damage in the honeycomb cells and prepare their home for the winter.

The composition of propolis, like other beekeeping products, is unique, and its benefits for humans are enormous. The consistency of the product is most often hard, slightly sticky, and softens as the temperature rises. The taste of natural propolis is not sweet at all, but rather bitter, pungent, and sometimes even hot.

Propolis is actively used in the chemical industry for the production of high-quality varnish. If in ancient times the product was used in medicine mainly for the treatment of wounds and skin diseases, now the range of its use is constantly expanding. It is difficult to imagine a disease in which propolis would not play at least a supporting role.

There are various ways to use this product:

• They also use it in its pure form, simply dissolving small pieces in the mouth for diseases of the gums and teeth;
• tinctures are made with alcohol, vodka, water and even milk;
• dissolve the product in oily media, making a variety of ointments;
• prepare solutions for inhalation.

Wax

And this beekeeping product, along with honey, has been actively used by people for several millennia.Scientists have found that it is produced by young insects aged 10 to 20 days, and it serves as the main building material in any bee dwellings.

To produce 1 kg of wax, bees need to process about 3.5 kg of honey. And the product contains more than 300 different substances and elements.

The scope of application of this beekeeping product is huge:

• in pharmaceuticals;
• in dentistry;
• in the chemical industry;
• in printing;
• in optics;
• in medicine;
• in candle making - exclusively natural wax candles are used for religious services.

Without this product it is difficult to imagine modern beekeeping.

The most popular beeswax-based products are a variety of wound-healing and anti-inflammatory ointments, as well as skin care creams.

The product usually begins to melt when it reaches a temperature of + 60-65 °C.

There are several main types of wax:

1. Pasechny – a product of the highest quality. It is extracted using wax refineries and can be used for medicinal and cosmetic purposes.
2. Extraction – this product is obtained by processing merva using various chemicals.
3. Press - It is mined in wax factories.

Zabrus

This beekeeping product is a type of wax. It represents the top caps with which bees seal the finished honeycombs with ripened honey. But at the same time, its composition is much richer than that of wax. It necessarily includes pollen, propolis, and honey.This is a universal remedy for bacterial and viral diseases, since it combines all the properties of the bee products included in it.

As a rule, chewing zabrus does not cause any allergic reactions. And, since the product is very pleasant to the taste (after all, it contains a considerable amount of honey), children of all ages and adults with a sweet tooth will fully appreciate zabrus treatment.

Chewing zabrus is an excellent preventive measure and helps with a runny nose (including chronic), flu and sinusitis. The product has a beneficial effect on the body in case of metabolic disorders, problems with the muscular system, and problems with blood circulation. The product is also effective in the treatment of hay fever. Chewing zabrus cures periodontal disease, gingivitis, stomatitis and sore throat. It will also easily raise the overall tone of the body and create reliable protection against infections during epidemics.

Drone jelly

Larval or drone jelly has been used in modern medicine quite recently, although information about its use has been known since ancient times. This beekeeping product is a thick, light-colored liquid with a sweet and sour taste. Its other name is homogenate trute-brood. In many Asian and southern countries, drone jelly is used as a dietary supplement, often together with honey.

This valuable beekeeping product is rich in vitamins and hormones, including natural testosteroids. Therefore, it is characterized by a powerful rejuvenating and healing effect. Restores nutrition to tissues, organs of the endocrine system and normalizes metabolism.

Merva

This beekeeping product is practically unknown to the general public, since only beekeepers encounter it. It is obtained after melting old honeycombs and is a mixture of wax, bee bread, and the remains of bee waste products. It is black in color and is mainly used as a raw material for producing wax in factories.

As an auxiliary product, liquid can be extracted from merva, which is often used as a vitamin supplement for feeding farm animals.

Podmor

Podmor is nothing more than the corpses of bees. The product is available for summer, spring and winter. Although it is practically not used in official medicine, this beekeeping product is popularly considered to be quite an effective remedy for the following health problems:

1. Phlebeurysm.
2. Diseases of the heart and blood vessels.
3. Diseases of joints, skin and teeth.
4. Sexual disorders in both women and men.
5. Problems with memory, hearing and vision.

The most active active ingredient in bees is chitosan, which has shown its effectiveness in protecting against radio radiation and in removing heavy metals and toxins from the body.

The product is used not only in medicine, but also in veterinary medicine, as a plant protection product, in cosmetics and in other areas.

Podmore has the property of rejuvenating and purifying the blood, so this bee product is recommended for use by people over 40 years of age.

From dead bees you can prepare an alcohol extract, liniment (an infusion of ground substance with vegetable oil) and steam (a water infusion). All products, except for the alcohol extract, are for external use.

Bee venom

Despite the fact that even one bee sting can be fatal for some people with hypersensitivity, this product is actively used to help with various ailments.

A healthy person can easily withstand up to 10 bee stings at a time, but 300-400 procedures will be a lethal dose. Children, women and the elderly are especially sensitive to bee venom. In case of possible poisoning, it is necessary to remove the bee sting from the body as quickly as possible, and then make a healing drink, which must be taken every three hours until all symptoms are completely relieved. The drink is prepared according to the following recipe:

• 1 liter of boiled water;
• 200 ml of quality vodka;
• 1 g ascorbic acid;
• 50 g honey.

Mix all the products in one container and drink 100 ml at a time.

Despite the possibility of allergic reactions, bee venom has a significant healing effect. Medicines containing this beekeeping product are recommended for anyone who suffers from:

1. Rheumatic diseases of muscles, joints, blood vessels, heart.
2. Vascular diseases, such as thrombophlebitis, atherosclerosis.
3. For trophic ulcers, hypertension, arthrosis.
4. Lesions of the nervous system: neuralgia, radiculitis, polyneuritis.
5. Some eye diseases - keratitis, iritis, scleritis.

Bee venom today is included in ointments, aqueous or oil solutions, capsules and tablets.

Which bee products are most beneficial for boosting immunity?

Almost all beekeeping products activate the immune system and increase the overall tone of the body. But the most useful mixture will be prepared according to the following recipe:

• 200 g honey;
• 2 g royal jelly;
• 15 g bee bread.

A healing mixture is prepared from the above products by thoroughly mixing them with each other. Take 1 teaspoon on an empty stomach once a day for a month.

Contraindications to bee products

As already noted, it is necessary to begin treatment with beekeeping products with small doses, carefully observing your body’s reaction to them. The possibility of allergies can block all the beneficial properties of bee products. Fortunately, this doesn't happen very often.

In any case, it is necessary to follow the dosage and intake rates of beekeeping products in order to avoid adverse consequences. There are especially many contraindications when treating with bee venom - they were indicated in the corresponding chapter. The most harmless beekeeping products are considered bee bee and bee bread.

Conclusion

Beekeeping products are an extraordinary gift from Mother Nature, created by working bees and designed to help humanity not only preserve and increase health, but also solve many other economic and everyday problems.

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