Bee Pollen (Feng Hua Fen) 1 lb: V
Bee pollen is just that, pollen collected by beekeepers from the supplies that bees have extracted from flowers of certain plants. Bee pollen is well known for its nearly complete nutrient content and its remarkable ability to provide energy. Respect for Bee Plloen is ancient in Chinese medicine. Bee pollen contains nearly all of the B complex vitamins, vitamins C, A, E, folic acid, and carotenoids. It contains a wide variety of minerals and trace elements, along with essential fatty acids. It is also extremely rich in rutin (vitamin P), vital to strengthening capillaries and blood cell walls. Bee pollen targets the entire body, but is a special boost to the reproductive, immune, and nervous systems. It is antibiotic, astringent, relaxant, tonic, and nutritive. It helps to correct and stabilize our body chemistry. Bee pollen speeds healing, revitalizes the body’s many systems, and helps protect the cells in our body from free radical damage – a major cause of cancer. It helps those who bruise easily, due to its rutin content, helps strengthen the heart, helps fight anemia, and helps to regulate high blood pressure by regulating blood flow. It is often used by athletes to increase endurance and strength. Taking bee pollen can actually help those with allergies overcome them. Many people who use bee pollen regularly, especially the elderly, claim to have better physical and mental health, suggesting that it may be a very effective tonic for aging systems. Bee pollen has been used to boost the active compounds in many herbs, such as gotu kola, ginseng, and schizandra. It is also used in compounds to treat burns, anti-aging formulas, allergies, anemia, chronic fatigue, impotence, infertility, kidney problems, menopause, and prostate troubles. One study, conducted by Dr. Peter Hernuss at the University of Vienna’s Womans Clinic, showed that Bee Pollen significantly reduced the usual side effects of both radium and cobalt-60 radiotherapy in 25 women treated for inoperable uterine cancer. As compared to the women who did not receive Bee Pollen, the Bee Pollen women had half as much nausea, 80% less loss of appetite, 50% less sleep, urinary, and rectal disorders, and 30% less general malaise and weakness after the treatment. In a Yugoslav paper, ‘Therapeutic Effects of Melbrosin in Irradiation of Diseases,’ [Melbrosin is a Swedish preparation of bee pollen, royal jelly, and honey.] ‘. . 84 female patients were separated from a group of tumor-dose irradiated patients who suffered from gynacological carcinoma and who showed clear signs of X-ray disease: fatigue, lack of dynamism, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, unconsciousness, insomnia, heat and perspiration strokes, tachycardia, increased temperature, etc. . After taking the preparation [Melbrosin], 30.5 percent . . had no sign of fatigue; 66.7 percent felt light fatigue; only 2.8 percent still complained of severe fatigue; 38.9 percent no longer suffered
