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

on treating enterogastropathy, neurasthenia, anemia all, there are many bioactive substances in pollen,
and tuberculosis and in helping patients to recover such as kinase, flavone compound, hormone, immune
from surgery. Therefore, children who eat honey fre- protein and calmodulin and they can regulate organs
quently have a faster growth in weight and higher in two ways. Pollen can strengthen the organic abil-

quantity of hemoglobin. Honey can build up their ity of the body to overcome the effects of stress and
ability to resist diseases; moreover, it is useful for greatly improve oneûs health, and prevent senescence.
health and longevity. With regard to sports, it has been proved that pollen
Mature honey has an antibiotic effect. It can be could strengthen athletesû physical force, resistance,
used externally to treat chronic ulcers of the crura, dispel fatigue rapidly and maintain a good athletic
skin wounds, stomatocace, pediatric thrush, frostbite, condition. In recent years, many athletes participat-
burns and some forms of dermatopathy. Honey is an ing in the Olympic games have eaten pollen products

essential ingredient in many skin-protection creams regularly and their bodyûs constitution and records
and cosmetics. Honey is commonly used for correct- have improved. Chinese scholars used pollen to pre-
ing flavors, excipients, binders in pharmaceuticals. vent acute altitude stress. They used the double-blind
Refining honey into pills is a preparation of tradi- method and validated it in Kun Lun Mountain, in Ka
tional Chinese medicine. Special medicaments of bee La, Sinkiang and Tang Gu La Mountain, in Tibet. It
honey can be used to treat disease in five sense or- is known that the altitude there is above 5,000 meters.
gans; its aerosol can treat pathological changes of According to observations on the clinical appli-
the respiratory tract; a suppository can treat the anus, cations of bee pollen, it has a good effect on treating
as well as the intestines and can be used even in prostatosis and sexual dysfunction in men; middle-

gynecopathy. In recent years, the operation of organ aged men and the elderly should take pollen to pre-
transplantation has become well developed; it has vent excessive hyperplasia of the prostate and thus
been proved that if honey is used as an ingredient to preclude the need for surgery. Hundreds of infertile
maintain organs, persons will receive good effects. men were able to produce babies after bee-pollen treat-
Because of different origins, bee honey has dif- ment. It is also useful for treating diseases such as
ferent color, fragrance, flavor, ingredients and effect. chronic and active hepatitis, bad appetite, weak di-
Honey of a single-flower, for instance, honey of gestion and absorption, and in preventing duodenal

Codonopsis pilosula, loquat, mint, and Chinese ulcer, hemorrhage, chronic atrophy gastritis and ha-
goldthread, has a bright future. Ceromel is an excel- bitual constipation. Pollen is used to cure menopausal
lent natural and mature honey with great value in syndrome, psychopathy, depressive syndrome and
dietetic therapy. chronic alcoholism and atrophy of the nervous sys-
Pollen is the only source of essential protein in tem. It can strengthen oneûs constitution, prevent or
bees and bee larvae. Each group of bees collects of treat the poor permeability of capillary vessels, cere-
more than 30 kg of useful pollen every year; protein bral atherosclerosis and diabetes. Pollen plays an ac-
and sugar account for more than 50 percent of the tive role in many human functions, promoting growth
pollen. Pollen includes all necessary amino acids and development, preventing malnutrition and accel-

needed by human beings and in the right proportion; erating recovery after operations and illness. Taking
most lipids in pollen are unsaturated fatty acids, which pollen frequently or using it as a kind of cosmetic is
give humans the necessary linoleic and linolenic ac- effective for protecting the skin and in hairdressing;
ids. Life demands essential microgenes, e.g. various moreover, it can eliminate acne, flecks, nevus, age
vitamins, major elements and microelements. Above pigment and small wrinkles.