People a very long time ago, thousands of years ago, began to use not only honey, but also other substances that are produced by working bees. People used honey, wax, propolis. The healing properties of the latter have been written and known since time immemorial. But whenever scientists begin to closely study the effect of propolis on the human body, they often discover all of its new medicinal qualities. You can use tincture for alcohol or an aqueous solution for treatment.
Propolis tincture - help with many diseases
For various diseases, it is necessary to correctly and clearly observe the doses in order to achieve a good and quick recovery. This tincture has a good effect on stomach diseases, including ulcers, colds, coughs. Both propolis tincture and its aqueous solution are good to take as a preventive measure to strengthen immunity. You can buy them at the pharmacy or make your own at home.
Propolis is a miracle of nature
Its peculiarity lies in the fact that, unlike other honey products, it can even be boiled, but when heated above 40 degrees, honey loses its healing properties. That is why it is convenient to use propolis in cases where heating, boiling (no more than an hour), and hot water are required.
Propolis is a sticky substance that bees find on the buds of trees, collecting it literally in milligrams. These “tears” of trees are brought by bees to the hive in spring, mainly from aspen, birch and poplar. Then, already in the hive, they enrich this substance with their enzymes, which gives propolis such an amazing healing effect.
It has been proven that propolis has a fairly wide spectrum of action, so its intake affects the body as a whole, having a beneficial effect on various organs and systems of the human body. It is also good for strengthening the immune system. You can drink propolis for sore throats, coughs, stomach ulcers. It has a good effect with frequent acute respiratory infections, acute respiratory viral infections, with influenza. Why? Propolis is a very strong natural bactericidal substance, therefore, to improve the general condition, prevent and strengthen the immune system, it should be taken. He is able to destroy:
Propolis destroys tubercle bacilli
- hepatitis and influenza viruses;
- tuberculosis bacillus;
- fungi;
- candidiasis, trichomonas, etc.
But there is another very valuable feature of this substance. When it is taken, microorganisms and viruses harmful to humans are destroyed, but the intestinal microflora does not suffer and remains safe and sound. When taking conventional antibiotics, there is a “killing” of beneficial microorganisms that help the digestion process.
And very often after taking antibiotics, especially if it is long-term, patients develop dysbacteriosis, which is harmful to the stomach and intestines. After all, an imbalance occurs in the body: either there are not enough beneficial microorganisms in the gastrointestinal tract, or “harmful” microorganisms settle there, which cause various stomach diseases.
Taking propolis for coughs and sore throats
Propolis cures cough
We all know the state when the flu comes in the spring. A lot of people have a lot of trouble with a cold. How to save yourself? Most people rush to pharmacies and buy expensive medicines for themselves and their loved ones. But if there is a tincture of this miraculous remedy in the house, then it is possible to alleviate your condition much faster. It is good to drink it for coughing, sore throat, nasal discharge. The greatest effect will be if you start taking this drug at the beginning of the development of the disease.
When coughing, you should drink propolis tincture with hot milk.
With wheezing in the chest, a strong paroxysmal cough, you should take a teaspoon of tincture (on alcohol or vodka) with hot milk or tea before bedtime. Then go straight to bed. This tool is quite effective and works flawlessly, but is only suitable for adults. For children over 12 years old, a more gentle option is recommended. With a strong cough, sore throat, bronchitis, a third of a teaspoon of tincture is given to drink with hot milk. You can add honey and butter to milk. Drinking is given to an older child and when coughing at bedtime.
Tea with propolis and spices
If you are very cold, your feet get wet in early spring or autumn, you feel a tickle in your throat, a headache, then you can help yourself by preparing a healing drink. Take regular tea, or rather herbal infusion with calendula, mint, raspberry or currant leaves, add a little honey, a teaspoon of sunflower oil, a piece of ginger, 1-2 pcs. black pepper and cloves and two tablespoons of tincture. Such a drink should be drunk better at night.
Hot tea with propolis tincture and raspberries - salvation in the "cold period"
If there were no spices at hand, and you were very cold, then just add a little tincture to hot tea. It is also convenient to do this at work if there is always a bottle with this wonderful healing mixture in your purse during the “cold period”.
We do rubbing and compresses for small children
Small children with coughs, wheezing in the chest, colds can be rubbed with heated goat or mutton fat, to which add a little tincture of alcohol or vodka (no more than a third of a teaspoon). With this composition, rub the heels of the child, breast, back, put on natural linen, and then a warm blouse and put to bed. Wear warm socks on your feet. After rubbing with this mixture, every other day it is good for a child to apply fresh cabbage leaves on the back, after cutting out the rough middle so that it does not interfere during sleep. In the morning, the baby should be wiped with warm water to remove the remaining fat. Cabbage leaves will practically become dry overnight, all the juice will be drawn out of them. After such rubbing and cabbage compresses, a good result is achieved even with bronchitis. This treatment is also good for strengthening the immune system.
If the child is sick, you can make a compress using propolis tincture.
If you cannot get loya (goat fat) or lamb fat, then you can use the internal pork fat, which must first be melted. Children from 2-3 years old are allowed to use animal fats for compresses. Before this, the fat is melted, sprinkled with propolis tincture on alcohol, applied to parchment paper and applied to the chest and back. If there is no place to get animal fats, then it is recommended to use ordinary sunflower oil for rubbing.
Then the child is dressed in linen or cotton underwear, a warm blouse or sweater on top and a compress is left overnight. This compress warms the child very gently throughout the night and it is possible to get rid of the cough, even if it is severe, in a few procedures. But the main thing is not to let the disease develop, but to start treatment at the first sign of a cold. To strengthen the child's immunity, it is necessary to harden, accustom to regular physical exercises, give him more fruits and vegetables so that the body receives all the necessary vitamins in a "live" form.
You need to be very careful. If your child is allergic to bee products, then it is strictly forbidden to give him tincture, as well as honey, so as not to cause an allergic reaction and not aggravate the condition. To small children, i.e. up to 12 years, tincture of vodka or alcohol is also not recommended. Schoolchildren can be given a small piece of propolis for coughing, colds. First you should chew, and then swallowed the saliva. Useful substances will enter the body and begin to act.
Taking propolis for stomach ulcers
Propolis tincture can help with stomach ulcers
With stomach ulcers and colitis, it is recommended to drink alcohol tincture. At the beginning of the reception, the initial concentration of the tincture is selected individually. The most effective antimicrobial action has a 30% solution. However, in some patients, this concentration of the solution may cause pain. Therefore, it is recommended to start, if there is inflammation of the stomach, with a less concentrated solution (5%), and then gradually move on to more saturated tinctures. With severe inflammation of the stomach, it is better to take 50-60 drops of tincture, which is diluted with boiled warm water or warm milk in a volume of 50-70. Take the mixture 1.5 hours before meals three times a day for 30 days.
It is noticed that in most cases pain, nausea disappears, heartburn disappears after a few days of taking the tincture. Along with this, sleep is normalized. It is known that an ulcer can have a different origin, i.e. caused by pathogenic microbes, nervous stress or a violation of the diet. Therefore, during treatment, it is recommended to strictly follow a diet, try not to be nervous and not to worry too much. Studies have shown that ulcer healing in patients occurs on average within a month.
If the pain in the ulcer is very strong, then to remove them, it is recommended to mix the tincture (in this case, 30-40 drops are taken) with 50-60 ml of a warm solution of novocaine, the concentration of which is 0.25%. If you drink it with novocaine, then the pain is removed quite quickly. As laboratory studies have shown: propolis is able to form a kind of protective film on the ulcerative defect.
Propolis-based tincture also fights chronic colitis
Due to this, sharp pain is removed, inflammation of the stomach goes away, epithelialization of inflamed and damaged areas during erosion and ulcers occurs much faster. The acidity of gastric juice decreases, if initially it is increased in the patient. Similarly, it is recommended to treat gastroduodenitis, chronic colitis, and erosive gastritis.
How to prepare an alcohol solution of propolis on your own?
You can prepare an alcohol solution at home for the treatment of stomach ulcers, 12 duodenal ulcers. To do this, you need to take 40 grams of finely chopped propolis, put it in a bottle, fill it with 100 ml of alcohol (70%). For half an hour, the bottle must be shaken vigorously, and then put in a dark place for 3 days to infuse. Then you should shake the bottle well again and put it in the cold for 2 hours. After that, the contents of the bottle are carefully filtered. Drink this tincture should be no more than 20 drops, diluted with boiled warm milk or tea three times a day for an hour or an hour and a half before meals. It is allowed to prepare such a tincture on vodka. The course of treatment is 18-20 days. However, to consolidate the result, doctors strongly recommend repeating the course in a couple of weeks. To strengthen the immune system, the use of this tincture is very good.
