Thursday, February 28, 2008

Article Outlines Health Benefits of Bee Products

Healing From the Hive
By Kim Castleton, Green Living Online, 2/26/2008

Honey, royal jelly, pollen, propolis, and venom. Bee products are abuzz with curative powers and nutrients -- just one more reason to save these furry insects.

Honey - Produced by bees from the nectar of blossoms and plants, honey is a good supplier of energy containing riboflavin, thiamine, and ascorbic acid.

Delicious and nutritious, it’s also helps with calcium retention, prevents anaemia and is beneficial in kidney and liver disorders, colds, poor circulation and complexion problems…

Royal Jelly - Royal Jelly is a highly nutritious whitish food with the consistency of mayonnaise, produced by the worker bees to feed the queen bee. It is rich in vitamins A, C, E and the B-complex vitamins including thiamine, pyridoxine, niacin, riboflavin, biotin, pantothenic acid, inositol and folic acid…

Pollen - Bee pollen is a power packed food, collected by bees from the male element of a flower. It's abundant in amino acids and contains vitamins B1, B2, B6, niacin, pantothenic acid, vitamin C, beta-carotene, vitamin E and folic acid…

Propolis - Propolis is a resinous material, gathered by bees from the buds of trees. It is used to seal up any cracks or holes in the hive. Propolis contains approximately 55 percent resins and balms, 30 percent wax, 10 percent etheric oils and 5 percent pollen. It has a high vitamin content, and trace amounts of iron, copper, manganese, zinc and antibiotics...

Venom - Bee venom, which contains two powerful anti-inflammatory agents, melittin and adolapin, is beneficial in many forms of arthritis…

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