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POLLEN
Excerpts from Lesson 71, Level Three of the Apitherapy
Internet Course (AIC)
Pollen, as we already know, as well as being a natural remedy,
is also a very good food.
As a food, it can be processed in every imaginable way:
- alone, powdered through a coffee grinder;
- mixed with yoghurt;
- mixed with honey then with yoghurt;
- mixed with juices (lemon, orange, apple, pineapple etc.,
etc.);
- mixed with fruits: bananas, oranges, lemons, almonds, strawberries,
cranberries, avocado etc.
- mixed with vegetables: carrots, etc.
- mixed with cereals (ideally for breakfast, when combined
with juices and yoghurt);
- mixed with wheat germs;
- added to a piece of bread with butter and honey;
- etc., etc.
It is interesting to note here that bee pollen can have many
different tastes depending on it's origins. Once present in the
mouth, it activates the tongue's taste sensory cells, thus giving
a very pleasant taste to the food we eat at that time. When pollen
is very fresh, this effect is most pronounced.
Also, because of its
relatively strong taste, you should bear in mind that it may alter
the tastes of the other ingredients when you add it to a recipe.
You should therefore add only small amounts if you do not want
the pollen to overwhelm the tastes of the other ingredients.
As a remedy, we need to be very careful
to protect its active compounds, vitamins, enzymes, hormones,
bio-energies, before and during the preparations.
The most important rule here is to protect
pollen from heat and light.
Let's examine some simple home made pollen
based preparations: Raw Bee Pollen
+ Raw Honey
- Fresh frozen clean bee pollen can be mixed, in various proportions
(1:1; 1: 2; 1: 3; 1:5 etc.) with raw, fresh and
fluid honey.
- Use: a) multi-colour bee pollen pellets (variable
origin = variable composition); this is mainly for healthy
people or for ill people having general illnesses which affect
the whole body and/or mind; b) use special types of bee
pollen (mono-colour) from herbs, trees already
known for their specific pharmacological effects (like linden
tree for dry cough, lavender for insomnia, hawthorn for heart
problems etc.).
- Test the taste of the pollen before inserting it into the
fluid honey; its taste must be good, even though it
may be bitter or sour; it must have not an unpleasant or worse
still an "ill" taste. Ideally your patient should carry out
this test, BEFORE you make up the mixture, since his/her body
(tongue, mouth, nose) will tell you what type of pollen is
best for him/her.
- Pour fresh frozen raw pollen into an empty jar, than add
fluid raw honey.
- Fill the jar until it is completely full of your product,
than add the outer lid; no air should be present between the
mixture and the upper lid.
- DO NOT STIR the mixture before putting on the lid; bee pollen
should be put in the jar first then filled to the brim with
liquid honey and the lid putting on; stirring will insert
air, dust and micro-organisms into your preparation.
- Since bee pollen is lighter than honey it will rise to the
top of the jar, penetrating through the honey's compounds.
This will take from just a few minutes to a maximum of a couple
of hours.
- Turn the jar (receptacle) up-side down every 4-6-8 hours;
do this for at least 12-14 days until you obtain a homogenous
mixture.
- Deposit your final preparation, as it has been obtained
into a refrigerator, WITHOUT replacing it in smaller or bigger
jars, in order to avoid the contact with the air.
- Every time you need to use your preparation let it stay
at room temperature for 1-2 hours before opening the jar,
in order to prevent condensation on the inner walls of the
jar.
- If the jar is small enough (ideally), you can keep it in
a dark and cool place (4-14° Celsius). This mixture can stay
on the shelf without any problem for minimum 6 months; however,
as with any other food, as soon as the jar is opened, it is
better a) to consume the contents as soon as possible; b)
to keep the jar in a refrigerator.
The above mixture can be used in the treatment
of hundreds of diseases (see the lessons with the pollen
and honey's indications).
If you want to increase the efficiency of your
preparation further, you have the following two options:
- to add several other natural remedies, in case you want
to use your final preparation as a non-specific prevention
remedy, as an "elixir" "good for all", especially for healthy
people, sport people and hard working people.
- to add remedies which are specific to the disease (condition)
being treated such as:
- ginseng powder (extract) to increase the sexual "power" in men with
sexual diseases or disorders;
- wheat germs for people suffering from liver, heart and brain
diseases;
- royal jelly, for those with let's say viral diseases (see
RJ indications);
- propolis extract, for respiratory and/or immune system diseases
etc.;
- hawthorn extract for heart and blood vessel diseases;
- rose hip (Rosa canina) for its high content in Vitamin C and
Magnesium;
- blueberry fruits (Vaccinium sp.) for its indications in eyesight
disorders;
- alder buckthorn bark powder for those suffering from constipation;
- walnuts for children with dystrophy (see African tribes children);
- eucalyptus extract (oil) for respiratory diseases;
- etc., etc.
There are really hundreds
of Companies which prepare such
combinations in this huge apitherapy world. As the compounds
from the above mixtures are almost all of them considered as
foods, there are no major difficulties even in producing them
on a larger scale. Of course ALL conditions required for foods
preparation and/or production must be respected.
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