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Journal of Thai Traditional & Alternative Medicine Vol. 6 No. 3 September-December 2008 ÛÒÒ

cream for medical use and protecting the skin; more- eycomb are complex; they include resin, tannic acid,
over, beeswax is also used to make the shells of some amino acid, enzymes, insect hormone and the other
capsules and pills and tooth models, etc. Currently, in bioactive components, but these mechanisms need
the operation of transplanting electronic instruments further research. Maintaining bioactive components

into the human body, the rubber membranes used by that cannot resist heat in the honeycomb serves to
physicians also contain beeswax. expand the applicable scope of honeycomb prepara-
When people eat ceromel and chew honeycomb, tions.
symptoms of rhinitis have been found to improve; for
Utilization of bees and colonies of bees: bee brood,
this reason liquor of Rhinitis Ling was formulated.
bee body, bee stings and apiaries
Patients can take 10~15g of comb with a little honey
on it or prepared honeycomb pills and chew these for The terms bee brood, or bee fetus, refer to the

30 minutes, then spit out the dregs. This is done larvae and pupas of bees. In ancient times, Chinese
twice a day and continued for 10~15 days. The pill people had used bees for medical health care. Sheng
form produces a good therapeutic effect on chronic Nongûs Herbal made it the top-grade spirit and re-
rhinitis. Although it has a quick effect on treating corded that it is sweet, smooth, çgood for curing head
allergic rhinitis, symptoms will recur once it is no madness, getting rid of poison produced by venom-
longer taken. The honeycomb pill also has produced ous insects, invigorating weakness and benefiting
a better therapeutic effect on patients with a short middle-jiao.é Taking it over long periods will make
course of chronic assistant nasal sinusitis, but a bad the skin bright. Ling Biao Lu Yi Ji, written by Liu
effect on treating those with a long course of Xun, in the Tang dynasty, described that the method

pachymucosa in the sinusal cavity. In the course of for making brood products.
treating rhinitis with honeycomb, complications such Tissues of bee larvae and pupas contain rich
as hepatitis improved; it also plays an important role nutrient substances, ecdysone and juvenile hormone.
in treating hepatitis. Preparations of honeycomb are The amino acid of queen bee larvae is similar to royal
used to treat chronic hepatitis B surface antigen jelly. Royal jelly obtained while collecting larvae of
(HBsAg) carriers and its rate of returning to yin is the queen bee, within 0~70 hours after removing the
35.0~42.22 percent. The data are higher than those larvae, will contain a propotion between royal jelly

for groups of transferring factors (15%) and immunity and larvae of about 3:1. The pupas of male bees
ridonucleic acid (RNA) therapy (12.5%); the dynamic generated in the season of producing bees; 22 or 23-
demonstration of immune reactions before and after day-old male bee pupas are used to make products
treatment indicates that preparations of honeycomb such as loyphile powder. This can be used to con-
can improve the immune functions of organs. coct many foods, medicaments and cosmetics. In
Different from Nidus Vespae in Chinese herbals, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, loyphile powder of
honeycomb has different functions. Nidus Vespae is queen bee larvae is made into Feng Huang Tai Tab-
the comb of Vespida insects, Japanese bees and let, and male bee pupas, which are boiled in salty
wasps. Experiments have proved that the infusion of water, are prefered in Japanese bee brood cans.

honeycomb can exterminate hepatitis B surface anti- Bee brood and its products are good for treating
gen (HBsAg); meanwhile, it can restrain the growth weakness, fatigue, malnutrition, neurasthenic patients
of golden staphylococcal bacteria, bacillus pyocyaneus, after a disease or operation, as well as babies, elderly
escherichia coli, shigella dysenteiae, typhoid bacillus people, and people who need invigoration. Feng Huang
and some viruses. The chemical components of hon- Tai Tablet is useful for main farming health and treat-