Healing properties of propolis

Many people know that propolis is a product of beekeeping and consists of a mixture of essential oils and resins. Bees cover propolis with their hives, strengthen honeycombs, and, thus disinfecting the dwelling, protect it from viruses and bacteria. Propolis removes toxins, has anti-inflammatory properties, prevents the growth of cancer cells. Everyone knows about the healing properties of propolis, but no one knows how it can be used in treatment.

Propolis is most valuable when inhaled, take a tablespoon of propolis, one spoonful of beeswax, put in a cup and melt in a water bath. Do inhalation for diseases such as bronchitis and tracheitis.

From corns
We will warm up a piece of propolis, make of it a thin cake and apply it to the sore spot. Repeat the process until the corns completely disappear. In the treatment of diseases of the oral cavity and caries we will buy a propolis extract in the pharmacy, dilute several droplets of propolis in boiled water and rinse them with the mouth.

Propolis, familiar to us, as a bee putty, bee glue, has antibacterial strength. It contains many trace elements, together with glycosides, vitamins make up a component that is useful to the body.

Properties of propolis
On their own experience, doctors were convinced that propolis helps with eczema, abscesses, bedsores, various burns, improves physical condition and memory, feels well, regulates the nervous system, treats inflammation in the esophagus and intestines, and improves vision. Propolis has healing properties.

Healing properties

Propolis solution in milk
It is used in the treatment of depression, bronchitis, asthma.
Take a liter of boiled hot milk, add 50 g of ground propolis. And mix it with a wooden spoon for about 10 minutes, then strain through three layers of gauze and salt into a glass jar. When the solution has cooled, a thin layer of wax is formed on the surface, it will be removed. The resulting solution is ready. We store it in the refrigerator, and use it an hour before meals on a tablespoon 2 times a day.

Propolis on alcohol is used in medicine when it is needed for the preparation of medicines. Alcoholic infusion is recommended for colds, inflammation of the ears and throat, pressure sores, purulent wounds, abscesses. To make 20% alcoholic infusion - take ½ l 95% alcohol add 100 g of ground propolis, salt in a dark bottle and close the cork. We'll put it in a dark place for two weeks. We shake several times a day. Additives will settle on the bottom, the surface will remain transparent, the infusion has a resin smell and a golden brown color. After two weeks, the solution is filtered and drained into a bottle of dark glass, without draining the precipitate.

With angina, we consume 30 drops after eating, and eat three times a day. Before this throat rinse with sage broth. Droplets are mixed with saliva and slowly swallowed, then do not drink and do not eat for two hours.

Propolis water-alcohol emulsion
It treats inflammations of the mucous membranes, purulent wounds, colds, rashes on the skin, this emulsion is used for compresses.

Prepare 0.2%, for this we mix 60 ml of cold boiled water and 10 ml of propolis per alcohol. The resulting solution will be milky-cream color.

With inflammation of the mucous membranes, with colds, we dig in the nose 3 drops a few times a day, which brings great relief.

Propolis ointment
It is used for venous nodules, bedsores, hemorrhoids, abscesses, wounds, frostbite, burns.

For the preparation of 10% ointment, we take 70 g of Vaseline, 20 g of lanolin we heat them in enamel ware, add 10 grams of propolis, put in a container with hot water. Stir in a glass or wooden spoon for 10 minutes. We strain into glassware through a double gauze. When the ointment becomes thick, it will be ready for use. Apply on thin places a thin layer twice a day and cover with a bandage or gauze in four layers.

Propolis solves the problem of fighting bedsores.

Propolis treatment of cartilage and bone tissue
Propolis disinfects, regenerates them, complements bone tissue. After that, the bone is saturated with salts of phosphorus and calcium, and the ossification passes smoothly. No side effects are observed. Based on information from different sources and on their own experience, propolis treats various diseases that do not lend themselves to other methods of treatment.

Drugs with propolis
All these processes of treatment were controlled by physicians.

  1. Older ulcers of the duodenum and stomach ulcers - propolis drops were applied on the flax seed broths. After the application of propolis pains decreased. Recovery came after a 3-week course. For several months there was no recurrence of the disease.
  2. Venous nodules in the anus with bleeding - for this used candles from cocoa butter, propolis ointment. After the use of drugs, relief came, healing came in three weeks.
  3. Inflammation of the tonsils with pus was lubricated with various propolis preparations. After three days of treatment, improvement was noted.
  4. Deep bedsores in patients treated with ointments, suspensions, alcohol solution. It resulted in a rapid effect of tightening and cleaning the wounds. Depending on the spread of pressure sores, their depth, from the general condition of the patients, a complete cure will be in 6 weeks.


Where antibiotics are often given, propolis for the treatment of serious diseases gives good results. The results are obtained for the treatment of elderly people. The ability to remember information in 80 year old patients increases when they undergo a one-month course of treatment with propolis.

It is known that propolis has medicinal properties, and although it has some limits of application, propolis is not a panacea for all diseases, but in many cases it is possible to try. Although there are almost no contraindications to the use of medicinal propolis.