Bee gathered pollen is regarded as valuable special food and is used also in apitherapy. A production method, that ensures good pollen quality is described, as well as the main quality criteria, that can be included in a future standard. There are sensory, microbiological and physico-chemical quality criteria. Most important for the pollen quality is the water content. It is proposed, that the ...

Bee pollen is both an important food source and a part of apitherapy applications because the components it contains such as fat, carbohydrate, lipid phenolics. In this study, environmentally friendly, biocompatible bee pollen-based silver nanoparticles (BP-AgNPs) were synthesized by utilizing potential reducing powers contained in pollen. The resulting characterized using spectroscopic microsc...

Tüm kültürlerde, modern tıbbın ulaşamadığı ve yetersiz kaldığı durumlarda, toksik olmayan, kolay erişilebilir, güvenilir olduğu düşünülen kültürel olarak ''alternatif/tamamlayıcı/doğal tedavi'' tanımlanan geleneksel tamamlayıcı tıp yöntemlerine başvurulmaktadır. Bu yöntemlerden biri de arı ürünleriyle yapılan doğal bir tedavi yöntemi olan apiterapidir. Bal, propolis, poleni, balmumu, sütü, bal ...

Objectives: This study aims to determine the traditional and complementary medicine (TCM) use in patients with knee osteoarthritis, by whom these methods are recommended, which provide best outcome, contribute awareness of physicians about TCM methods. Methods: One hundred four over age 40 who were diagnosed osteoarthritis had complaints for at least 6 months included study. The applications pr...

The propolis, which is a natural product that collected by honey bees from the plants, especially flowers and buds, mixing it with wax resin, used in hive for many purposes. Apart use hive, propolis versatile compound medicine, cosmetics, food industry apitherapy contains wide variety of chemical substances having antibacterial antioxidant effects. It was determined antimicrobial effects sample...