Products of beekeeping were long since used by our ancestors as medicines. Products found a wide range of application also in the modern world, thanks to rich structure use them in medicine and cosmetology. In more detail we will talk about propolis and honey in this article.
Advantage and medicinal properties
As a part of both products there is a large amount of vitamins, mineral elements, amino acids, essential oils, pitches, phytoncides, alkaloids and other useful substances. Such saturated complex allocates a product with many properties:
- antimicrobic;
- antibacterial;
- antiviral;
- regenerating;
- immunomodulatory;
- anti-toxic;
- antioxidant;
- anti-inflammatory;
- febrifugal;
- soothing.
Regular reception activates protective forces of an organism in fight against cold, diseases of the upper and lower airways. Honey with propolis or bee glue as it is called still, supports youth of cages, regulates exchange and digestive processes, keeps useful intestinal microflora, preventing diseases of internals, accelerates an exit of products of disintegration of drugs, toxins and other hazardous substances.
The curry, wormwood, dried apricots, cornel, sabelnik, orange, chicory, feijoa have also anti-inflammatory effect
Products of beekeeping are actively used in cosmetology for rejuvenation of skin, elimination of small wrinkles, food and moistening. Mix helps at dental problems, at inflammatory processes kills microbes and dulls pain. At external application with its help joints, burns, wounds treat.
Honey medicine helps to normalize a dream, to eliminate a disturbing state, well influences nervous system.
Whether you know? Useful properties of honey were described still by Avicenna, especially insisting on antibacterial properties. He advised to apply a product to healing of wounds after extraction of tips of arrows.
With what honey it is better to mix propolis
Grades of honey there is a large number, but for mix with propolis the beekeepers recommend lime or flower: it is considered that they have richer structure and, respectively, a bigger range of medicinal properties.
White honey — amber color, apply to treatment and prevention of sharp respiratory and viral infections, it is used also at disorders of a GIT, diseases of kidneys, is effective at external application as wound healing means.
Flower honey — usually is meant a product from different herbs as collecting pollen and nectar from one plant are accompanied by some difficulties the name: blossoming time, weather conditions. Therefore many bee-keepers prefer to make poliflerny grades that, by the way, does them it is more useful monoflerny as each plant has the useful properties.
Important! It is desirable to find for the choice of quality products the experienced beekeeper with a big apiary — professionals of the business value the reputation and appreciate regular customers, besides, they have a certificate of quality of products.
Mnogotravye means set of properties of several officinal herbs. Flower grades apply at cold, diseases of a throat, lungs and bronchial tubes, at inflammatory processes, including gynecologic character.
Pay attention that at above the listed symptoms also apply a thyme, a dogrose, green onions, a clover, a St. John's wort
In general each grade is useful in own way, and the choice is defined by the buyer according to need.
Recipes for wonderful mix
There are two methods of preparation of mix, in both cases of a proportion are identical. Bee glue should be frozen, then it is easier to crush it (to rub on a grater).
The first recipe: depending on that, for prevention or for treatment you prepare, from 3 to 10 g of glue on 100 g of honey undertake. The crushed propolis is mixed with a honey weight and heated on a water bath, constantly stirring slowly that the structure became uniform. Temperature should not exceed 60 °C, it is better to make small fire.
The second recipe is almost identical to the first: the difference is that at first on a bath heat glue, and then gradually, stirring slowly, pour in honey. It is recommended to filter structure both in the first, and in the second case, so it will become cleaner from impurity.
Whether you know? Honey as preservative was applied long ago. It is known that the body of the dead of Alexander of Macedon to the place of burial was transported in the capacity filled with honey to avoid decomposition processes.
As it is possible to use for the medical purposes
Beekeeping products thanks to the numerous favorable properties use in a large amount of medicines of official pharmacology, both for external, and for internal application.
External application
Lotions, compresses and appliques help to struggle with decubituses of seriously ill patients, to treat sore joints and sheaves, wounds and burns.
We recommend to learn how use honey in traditional medicine and what properties white honey and propolis has
The healing compress
For the healing compress on the gauze put in several layers evenly distribute mix of honey, propolis and an aloe in a proportion 2:1:1. Impose on a sore part of the body and hold about twenty minutes, then wash away warm boiled water.
At antritis
At antritis (1:1:2) use mix with addition of juice of an aloe and boiled water as a drop in a nose. Also do honey flat cakes: the spoon honey propolisnoy mixes and two spoons of flour to vent. To heat in a dry frying pan to a warm state, to put on a nose bridge, closing also gaymorova of a bosom. To hold a peculiar compress until it becomes cold.
At a disease of antritis recommend to use tea tree oil and sea-buckthorn and also pink salt
At conjunctivitis
For washing of eyes at conjunctivitis the structure is parted with water one to one and within three days dug in in eyes.
Internal application
The most frequent use of mix usually preventive: high content of vitamins and minerals strengthens and activates protective properties of an organism. Both products separately have property to kill pathogenic bacteria that in structure only strengthens it.
For increase in immunity
For increase in immunity it is recommended to prepare mix from honey, propolis, a lemon and ginger. To cut a root and fruit with small pieces, no more than five millimeters thick. To put in bank layers: a lemon layer — honey mix, ginger — honey mix and so on. It is necessary to keep structure in the fridge, in day one teaspoon suffices.
At cold
At cold eat two-three dining rooms (adults) or tea (children) of a spoon of mix in day. At the same time do not swallow of it, and slowly rassasyvat, mix at the same time also settles on a throat, killing an infection. Take medicine before meal or after it, observing an interval at two o'clock, stretching a portion for all day.
At inflammation of gums
At inflammation of gums it is recommended to dilute mix (30 g) with a glass of grass infusion (camomiles, calendulas) and to rinse an oral cavity during the day.
Broth will help to remove inflammation of gums from a barberry, a marjoram, Kalgan, blackberry, cowberry, a wormwood bitter and also compresses from fir oil
Whether it is possible honey with propolis for pregnant women
Now the serious researches confirming negative influences of products of beekeeping on a fruit and the newborn, the baby no. But it is necessary to consider that the pollen processed by bees contains a set of connections and substances and also hormones which can enter an imbalance into gentle digestive system of the kid.
The use of products of the pregnant woman or the feeding mother can provoke a serious allergy in the future and cause poisoning during the current period of the use. Therefore before accepting honey mix with propolis, it is necessary to consult with the gynecologist or the pediatrician.
We advise to learn what vitamins are necessary for pregnant women and the nursing mothers
Storage conditions
The prepared mix has to be stored at a temperature below +10 °C, otherwise honey crystallizes. It is necessary to store it in a glass jar with a cover, it is desirable in the fridge or a cellar, but in the dry place. Under such circumstances it will keep the properties about a year.
The candied product can return liquid state, having placed it (without taking out from banks) in the container with hot water.
Important! Consider — honey cannot be heated directly over a plate torch, only on a water bath, it is impossible to boil it, otherwise its useful properties will become toxic. Temperature of influence has to be not above 60 °C.
Whether there can be a harm
Mix with propolis can do harm at the wrong application: self-treatment unspecified expert of the diagnosis, excess of a dose or course of treatment. Besides, mix is saturated with substances which can act as allergens therefore before application it is necessary to specify whether you have individual intolerance of components, also with caution the people living in places with unsuccessful ecology should take structure.
In polluted (the heavy industry, for example) regions in an organism can settle heavy metals and other toxins which in interaction with some aggressive substances in mix with propolis are capable to aggravate the state of health.
Presence of an allergy can indicate shortage in an organism of such vitamins as: P, B10, B5 and also calcium
Who is not recommended to use
It is undesirable to apply mix at the following states:
- obesity;
- diabetes;
- chronic pancreatitis;
- disease of a gall bladder;
- liver disease;
- outwardly at active stages of a disease of skin (psoriasis, eczema).
At overdose by structure such symptoms are observed:
- dryness of an oral cavity;
- thirst;
- dizziness;
- drowsiness;
- rash on skin;
- cold;
- short wind.
Important! Products of beekeeping are not recommended to children up to three years.
Other useful products of beekeeping
Also other used waste products of bees are not less important, many of them are applied not only in medicine, but also in the industry (easy, textile, automobile, paint and varnish and many others).
Wax
Incorporating more than fifty ingredients, wax is widely used in a pharmacopeia of many countries. On its basis prepare ointments, plasters, a fruit candy and other means. Medicines use for treatment of gastric diseases, skin problems, diseases of respiratory organs. In cosmetology it is not the last ingredient in skin care products and in decorative cosmetics.
Zabrus
Zabrus, either the honey signet, or honey candies which children like to chew is the product rich with lysozyme having property to kill cages of pathogenic bacteria. Chewing of this sweet cleans an oral cavity from microbes, strengthens gums, a bone tissue of teeth. This powerful tool for strengthening of the immune system — is remarkable that in it there are less allergens, than in other products of beekeeping.
Learn more as in the medical purposes use a bee subpestilence
Uterine milk
The product is a part of medicines for treatment of respiratory organs, vessels and heart, digestive tract, diabetes, viral and infectious diseases. The milk is appointed to premature and anemic children, with an obvious shortage of weight. It is useful for the men suffering from sexual frustration. In cosmetology a uterine milk — frequent ingredient in shampoos, masks for hair, face skin and hands.
Perga
It is applied in official medicine to treatment of hepatitis, atherosclerosis, urological diseases. It is useful during the period after the postponed serious illnesses and operations: increases appetite, improves blood circulation, restores forces. The Perga is used by industrial production of vitamin A.
Pollen
Helps to restore forces at anemia, improving blood circulation and development of red blood cells, promotes the best digestion of iron. Pollen prolongs organism youth at the cellular level. In cosmetology is a part of the means smoothing wrinkles, bleaching nutritious. With its help it is possible to recover the hair injured by paint or a chemical wave, to get rid of dandruff.
Honey a useful medicinal product in itself, and in combination with propolis its action grows many times. It is necessary to consider at the same time that the amount of allergens also increases therefore before preventive or medical application consult to your attending physician.