When buying honey, we often buy other unique beekeeping products with it: propolis, bee bread, beading. Propolis is a healing product that contains nutrients in a concentrated form. It can be presented for sale in its pure form, which we need, as well as in the form of tinctures, oils, alcohol and water extracts, candles, etc. Propolis ointment can be stored for a long time and is an effective remedy for almost all skin diseases.
Cooking propolis ointment at home
Propolis: unique properties, application
Propolis is a waste product of bees. It is formed from special sticky substances that bees collect from spring buds of trees (for example, alder, poplar) and modify with their enzymes. Propolis is an elastic, greenish-brown resinous mass with a brownish tinge, with a pleasant smell and a bitter, burning taste of honey and wax.
The use of propolis. First of all, it is a natural "antibiotic" that has practically no contraindications. There are special suppositories with propolis for the treatment of hemorrhoids, prostatitis, and aqueous and alcoholic solutions (it does not dissolve in vodka), is prepared for the treatment of throat, chronic tonsillitis, upper respiratory tract infections, inhalation.
How to apply tincture for throat treatment:
- Use to gargle - a few drops of propolis alcohol solution (5-10 drops) in a glass of water.
- It is also good to mix 20% alcoholic propolis tincture (10-20 drops per glass) with herbal infusions: chamomile, oregano, linden, eucalyptus, St. John's wort. They have an astringent, softening effect when gargling.
Preparation of alcohol and water solution
To prepare a 10% alcohol solution of propolis, you need to take 50 grams of pure propolis and 450 grams of alcohol. Pour the pre-crushed propolis (in a coffee grinder, on a grater) into a dark jar and pour 96% alcohol. Remove to a dark place, shake every day. After two weeks, strain the alcohol solution through cheesecloth. Pour the rests with distilled water, so you will have an aqueous solution ready.
The use of propolis ointment
- If you suddenly have a wound, cut, inflammation (pimple), burn, frostbite, boil, you can first treat this place with an aqueous solution of propolis, and then with propolis ointment. Believe me, it will heal very quickly.
- Plus, with gastritis, gastric ulcer, you can use honey with propolis (5% propolis, the rest is honey).
Preparing propolis ointment at home
To do this, take 100 grams of a fatty base (for example, lanolin or petroleum jelly) and pre-crushed pure propolis. How much propolis? It depends on what% of the ointment you want to get at the output. So, for the preparation of 10% ointment - we take 10 gr. propolis, and 20% - 20 gr. propolis.
We put the fatty base in a water bath and heat it, add propolis, stir constantly until it is completely dissolved (within 30 minutes). Then gently strain the hot ointment through cheesecloth, pour into jars. Store in a dark place. Do not be ill!
