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Propolis Disorders Cold, respiratory inflammation, cough, voice extinctions, sore throat, gingivitis, dental infections, wounds, mycosis of the skin
Diseases Banal angina, pharyngitis, laryngitis, tracheitis, bronchitis, ear infections, sinusitis.
Beneficial Antiseptics, bactericides, antivirals, anti-infectives, stimulate the body's defenses, strengthen the natural defenses, resist attacks in general, resist microbial attacks, respiratory tract (throat and nose)
Description of propolis
Where does propolis come from? It comes to us directly from our friends the bees, indeed they recover this resin from many plants, conifers with the bark of firs, pines, as well as the buds of many species of trees such as alders, willows. , birch and plum, ash and oak, elm, poplar and horse chestnut. This resin, having a more or less viscous appearance, is used to coat the inside of the hive or to reduce the entrance to protect the colony. Of course, due to the diversity of its many components harvested, propolis comes in different varieties.
The cultivation of propolis
The worker bee brings back the propolis which can have a yellow, or green or brown tint (depending on the harvest) in the same baskets as the pollen located on its hind legs to the hive, they then give it to the mason bees who will transform or modify it with wax and their own secretions (saliva) to make it more malleable to use.
It is from there that the beekeeper can recover this mixture, but it must be sanitized and dissociated from the wax and for this it will be heated in water at 70 degrees, which will have the effect of making bring this wax to the surface and leave the raw propolis in the bottom, then after the extraction, it only remains to macerate it in ethyl alcohol for several months and we obtain a first quality propolis.
Propolis exists in many packaging, such as tablets, toothpaste, liquid or dry extracts, chewing gums, ointments or lotions, syrup or tincture.
The composition of propolis
It is necessary to specify that propolis can have a fairly variable composition, since it depends on the outside climate and the different sources of plants. There are nearly 300 different varieties of propolis, but with identical common compounds, 150 active therapeutic ingredients for the body.
Propolis contains flavonoids in very large quantities with pinocembrin, galangine and chrysin, pinobanksin and pectolinarigenin, they are natural antiseptics and powerful antioxidants, which have the property of being effective antibiotics.
Trace elements in the form of minerals combine in the active ingredients of propolis, such as cobalt and copper, silver and manganese, as well as molybdenum and iron, magnesium and chromium , zinc and finally selenium. Propolis includes phenol acids, such as caffeic acid, cinnamic acid, and ferulic acid. And to supplement its compounds, vitamins are present in propolis with vitamin A and several vitamins of the B group, vitamin C and vitamin E.
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Propolis and its medicinal properties
The recognized therapeutic properties of propolis, make it an essential natural element for all seasonal changes and all winter ailments, for the well-being of the organism, with a number of antiseptic and bactericidal, antifungal, as well as as antivirals and anti-infectives.
Through its various contributions of active ingredients, propolis stimulates the body's defenses while strengthening the immune defenses, which gives it powerful assets for the prevention and treatment of ENT-type infectious diseases and disorders ( otolaryngology). Therefore propolis is ideally used for colds and coughs, voice extinctions (hoarseness), tonsillitis and sore throat, bronchitis and pharyngitis, as well as laryngitis and tracheitis, and a lot of respiratory inflammation, as well as ear infections and sinusitis.
Propolis is medically used to treat certain problems associated with stomatitis and gingivitis for all kinds of dental infections. You can also apply propolis on all wounds and fungal infections of the skin.
Other uses
Propolis can be used in many other fields, as a varnish for the treatment of wood and it is even said that the famous Stradivarius used it to varnish some of his violins. But we find soaps, shampoos, and toothpastes, but also in cosmetology such as lipsticks, skin lotions and sunscreens.
Help and care
Antiseptics, bactericides, antivirals, anti-infectives, stimulate the body's defenses, strengthen the natural defenses, resist attacks in general, resist microbial attacks, respiratory tract (throat and nose), common tonsillitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, tracheitis, common cold, respiratory inflammation, cough, voice extinctions, sore throat, bronchitis, ear infections, sinusitis, gingivitis, dental infections, wounds and yeast infections of the skin.