The bee's back legs have containers shaped like small buckets, which are filled with pollen when collecting honey. The second name of the pollen collected this way is pollen pellet. It is used to feed the growing inhabitants of beehives.
Bee pollen looks like small granules of irregular shape, containing more than 250 micro- and macronutrients. It has a pronounced sweet taste with a slight bitterness and pleasant floral flavor.
Flower pollen collected by worker bees flying from flower to flower is mixed with their saliva, becoming a powder-like substance. One bee brings up to 20 mg per passage, some 200 mg per day. Averagely, a single beehive collects 50 kg of bee pollen per month with color, composition, and nutritional properties depending on the time of collection.
The bee pollen collected from different species of plants over the period of May to July is considered to be the most beneficial to health.
One can tell which flowers were the source of nectar by the color of a pollen pellet. This helps to maximize the use of its nutritional properties and consider contraindications.
Indications for bee pollen use
The main indications are as follows:
treatment and prevention of diseases;
immunity strengthening;
application in cosmetology.
Treatment and prevention of diseases
The therapeutic purposes of using pollen pellets:
Sage- and hawthorn-based bee pollen produces a beneficial effect on the gastrointestinal tract, normalizing and restoring it. It has a pronounced diuretic effect, which allows using it to treat urolithiasis and other pathologies associated with kidneys.
Rape-based pollen is used to normalize excess weight and as an aid in trophic ulcers.
Thyme-based pollen pellet is also very beneficial to human health. It is used as an expectorant, antiseptic, tonic medicine, indispensable in case of problems with blood vessels.
Bee pollen of lime blossom soothes, normalizes sleep. It is favourable to the nervous system.
The pollen pallet of wild rose flowers is helpful in case of kidney stones.
Buckwheat pollen has a positive effect on the cardiovascular system, strengthening and preventing strokes and heart attacks.
Bee pollen is good for treating diseases such as:
- arrhythmia;
- anaemia;
- coronary;
- skin inflammations;
- prostate adenoma;
- male sex impotence;
- prostatitis;
- hypertension (to be taken before meals);
- hypotension (to be taken after meals);
- migraine;
- acute respiratory viral infections and flu;
- male and female infertility.
Treatment with pollen also allows solving such problems as:
- reduced performance;
- loss of strength;
- decrease in immunity;
- formation of sclerotic plaques;
- dizziness;
- low hemoglobin;
- visual impairment;
- brittle nails;
- hair loss (excessive);
- insomnia.
