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jelly by worker bees; the single larva will develop into investigated them systemically but the results could
a new queen bee with healthy and wholesome female not explain its magic-like bioactivity, and this needs
organs. The larvae in the hive of worker bees are fed further study. For health care, the dosage of fresh
with a mixture of honey and pollen powder after three royal jelly is 2~3g daily, taken sublingually in the

days of age. The larvae will develop into worker bees, morning and evening, which enables the bioactive
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with dyshematopietic female organs, on the 21 constituents to be absorbed through the mucous
day. The body form of a queen bee is larger than membrans of the mouth. If the illness is serious, the
that of a worker bee. The queen bee is highly fecund. dosage can be increased by 5 to 10 times. Small
The weight of its eggs exceeds its own weight. packets of loyphile powder are easy to keep and ap-
The life span of the queen bee is also longer ply. They can be taken in 0.5g doses sublingually.
than that of worker bees. Usually, the queen bee can Fresh royal jelly must be kept under conditions of low

live for three to five years, but worker bees live for temperature, even to freezing, in the absence of sun-
only 30 to 60 days in the collecting season, and five shine, because the bioactive constituents may be in-
to six months at the end of winter. Although the fluenced by light, and heat, among many other fac-
queen bee and worker bees are also developed from tors. It is difficult for the type of oral liquid on the
oosperm, they have greatly different body functions market to maintain the bioactivity of fresh royal jelly,
and life span, which has aroused peopleûs interest in because its content is too low to treat diseases. Fre-
royal jelly. quently used compound preparations add ginseng and
In the 1950s, Europeans began to attach great membranous milk vetch roots. This produces a kind
importance to the medical effects of royal jelly. In of compound reaction of Chinese medicine. It has

1956, the health of the 80-year-old Pope was endan- been found that 10-HDA is peculiar to royal jelly and
gered. His doctor-in-charge had used up all ways to it can defend against bacteria, restrain the metasta-
help him, but in vain. In desperation, he gave the sis of tumors in animals, help patients recover and
Pope royal jelly and it brought him through. Then, the improve the immune system.
pontiff joined in the 16th International Conference on Sheng Nongûs Herbal, regards beeswax as a top-
Keeping Bees and introduced his own experience that grade spirit and describes beeswax as sweet, luke-
royal jelly enabled him to recover. Clinical practices warm, useful for curing dysentery, pus and blood,

have shown that royal jelly has a good effect on treat- invigorating the middle-jiao, healing wounds or sores,
ing caducity and weakness, menopausal syndromes, and benefiting Qi; Ben Cao Tong Xuan claims that
psychoneurosis, insomnia, anorexia, anemia and hy- beeswax can reproduce muscles and stop pain. Fif-
perlipidemia. Besides, it is also used to treat diabe- teen kinds of beeswax prescriptions in the ancient
tes, leucocytopenia, sterility, hepatitis, arthritis, dys- books were selected for inclusion in the Big Dictio-
thymia and cerebrarteriosclerosis. Patients with a ma- nary of Chinese Medicine. Beeswax treatment, which
lignant tumor can receive a stronger therapeutical uses the melting beeswax as a heat medium to con-
effect and experience fewer side effects from radio- duct heat throughout the body to treat diseases, has
therapy or chemiotherapy if the treatments are com- a very long history. Information about it can be found

bined with royal jelly. in detail in the Supplement to Invaluable Prescrip-
External use of fresh royal jelly can moisten the tions for Ready Reference and the Chuan Xin Fang of
skin, and treat dermatitis and baldness, etc. Concern- Liu Yuxi, in the Tang dynasty.
ing its constituents and the physiological and Modern pharmacology usually uses beeswax as
pharmalogical functions of royal jelly, researchers have the raw material for making ointment, plaster and