On the market at beekeepers (or they have at home) you can buy such a wonderful substance as propolis. Some call it «Bee glue», «resin». This substance represents a resinous adhesive material that can be cut into a knife, rolled into lumps. He has a pleasant specific smell of the first spring kidney.
Over time, propolis darkens, becomes denser due to evaporation of liquid substances. Where does he take in the hive?
It is collecting bees from various plants, mainly from the trees. This is especially noticeable when in the spring these small winged workers are thousands of buzzing with swelling of poplar and birch kidney. In this natural material, the bee add their secrets.
Propolis bees polish cells. This is their bactericidal drug. When it is assisted, all pathogens microbes are eliminated. If there is a mouse in the hive, then the bees instantly froze it to death. But they are not able to get rid of her corpse, so in order to avoid tensions in the ulle and the spread of diseases will definitely reflect the mouse, covering it with a thick layer.
Honey and propolis still used in the ancient century as a substance for embalming the great people. The bees propolis performs another feature. With its help, the bee makes all the gaps formed in the hive and cut the pilots to the winter period to reduce the influx of cold air.
Usually beekeepers rolling propolis in lumps from a ball for table tennis to chicken egg. In a lump with a chicken egg, approximately 50 g of substance.
Propolis collection time
Beekeepers have such a concept as a spring audit revision. At this time, bees are transplanted into new, clean hives. Old brutal from the submo. Most consider propolis from all pilots. Such material is considered the cleanest, because it always always in large quantities and when it collects, waxes and scraps from wood hive, and if you fall, then in a minimum number.
Many beekeepers in any inspection consider the whole propolis from the frames and walls of the hive. He is not inferior to his quality in his quality, just there will be more adding in the form of wax. It can be seen with a naked eye. Wax, as a rule, will have the type of bright colors. Propolis harvested and from the ceiling, and from canvas, there, naturally, there will be an inclusion of a canvasp.
That is propolis you can collect the entire active season of the work of the bee themselves until the last bribe finishes. The most beneficial properties has a freshly complete. On the sight it is dark green, brown or gray with a greenish tinge.
Fragrance - mix of honey, fragrant herbs, needles, pile kidneys.
Taste - sharp, burning.
We must be able to properly keep propolis or tincture, ointment from it. Like all the products of beekeeping, it does not tolerate storage. Storage temperature - not higher than 25 degrees. Storage location should be dry. Propolis itself turns into food polyethylene or food parchment paper so that there is no air access. You can additionally place in some glass container with a dense lid. Personally, I keep it in the door of the refrigerator. There it keeps all the beneficial properties of at least 5 years.
Healing properties of propolis
Therapeutic properties of propolis are known thousand years. In folk medicine, it was used and used in the treatment of wounds, burns. In recent years, interest in this substance has increased significantly. Doctors recognized him natural (!) Antibiotic of natural origin.
This is true. Propolis has bright antiseptic properties. It slows down the growth of bacteria, some bacteria destroys, destructively acts on many pathogenic fungi. Used as anesthetic, anti-inflammatory, anti-face substance. It is used in the form of ointments, aerosols, aqueous and alcohol solutions, various extracts.
It is used in inflammation of the colon, conjunctivitis, infection of urinary tract, inflammation of the throat, gout, treatment of joints, wounds, with a cold, flu, bronchitis, gastritis and even with cancer.
It greatly helps in the treatment of ears, headaches, Intestinal diseases, all sorts of fungal lesions, inflammation of lungs, eczema, burns, frostbite and many of many other diseases.
The most widely medicine uses propolis as an antimicrobial and wound healing agent. He accelerates wound healing, eliminates inflammatory processes in the mucous membrane. All known advertising toothpaste with propolis.
Under the influence of proprolis ointment wounds are quickly cleaned from pus and quickly heal. In combination with herbs, other substances gives a stunning effect.
The main advantage of propolis - he, in contrast to all Antibiotics, does not cause an addiction of the body and is not an allergen.
How to cook proprolis tincture
At home, the easiest way to prepare the alcohol tinctuine tincture. I usually do so.
50 g of fresh propolis and half-liter high-quality vodka (moonshine) is taken. Propolis need to grind. With a knife with a thin chips, every couple of minutes these crumbs refer to a bottle with alcohol. Every time you need to shake. After the grinding is completed, refueling everything to a single crumb, it is necessary to tighten the plug and start the shacking procedure. Method - What do you like more. I don't do it: I put the bottle to the floor, I myself watch the TV, and I rolling the container to the foot. The longer the process itself will happen, the better will dissolve.
In some sources it is recommended to heat the vodka. I would not recommend this to make readers our site, because many useful substances of propolis essentials and can be destroyed by heating.
If you do not scold, in a few days the entire propolis will fall at the bottom of a single monolith, almost without having enriched the solvent.
The dissolution process goes several days. The most basic - the first. On the second and subsequent days, the shaking of the capacity can be carried out only three or four times a day.
No matter how hard you tried, there will be a lot of undisguised sediment on the bottom. This is a normal phenomenon. Wax is not dissolved, impurities. Let them calmly lie at the bottom to the second coming. The whole process takes two to three weeks.
It is possible to apply it for prevention: one teaspoon on a glass of slight warm or cold water, milk, juice. The taste is very nice. In such a solution, you can rinse your mouth with inflammatory processes of the mucous membrane, take inside with constant stomach disorders, many other diseases.
