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Bee pollen is just that, pollen collected by beekeepers from the supplies that bees have extracted from flowers of certain plants.

Bee pollen is well known for its nearly complete nutrient content and its remarkable ability to provide energy. Respect for Bee Plloen is ancient in Chinese medicine.

Bee pollen contains nearly all of the B complex vitamins, vitamins C, A, E, folic acid, and carotenoids. It contains a wide variety of minerals and trace elements, along with essential fatty acids.

It is also extremely rich in rutin (vitamin P), vital to strengthening capillaries and blood cell walls. Bee pollen targets the entire body, but is a special boost to the reproductive, immune, and nervous systems. It is antibiotic, astringent, relaxant, tonic, and nutritive. It helps to correct and stabilize our body chemistry.

Bee pollen speeds healing, revitalizes the body's many systems, and helps protect the cells in our body from free radical damage - a major cause of cancer. It helps those who bruise easily, due to its rutin content, helps strengthen the heart, helps fight anemia, and helps to regulate high blood pressure by regulating blood flow.

It is often used by athletes to increase endurance and strength. Taking bee pollen can actually help those with allergies overcome them.

Many people who use bee pollen regularly, especially the elderly, claim to have better physical and mental health, suggesting that it may be a very effective tonic for aging systems.

Bee pollen has been used to boost the active compounds in many herbs, such as gotu kola, ginseng, and schizandra. It is also used in compounds to treat burns, anti-aging formulas, allergies, anemia, chronic fatigue, impotence, infertility, kidney problems, menopause, and prostate troubles.

One study, conducted by Dr. Peter Hernuss at the University of Vienna's Womans Clinic, showed that Bee Pollen significantly reduced the usual side effects of both radium and cobalt-60 radiotherapy in 25 women treated for inoperable uterine cancer. As compared to the women who did not receive Bee Pollen, the Bee Pollen women had half as much nausea, 80% less loss of appetite, 50% less sleep, urinary, and rectal disorders, and 30% less general malaise and weakness after the treatment.

In a Yugoslav paper, 'Therapeutic Effects of Melbrosin in Irradiation of Diseases,' [Melbrosin is a Swedish preparation of bee pollen, royal jelly, and honey.] '. . 84 female patients were separated from a group of tumor-dose irradiated patients who suffered from gynacological carcinoma and who showed clear signs of X-ray disease: fatigue, lack of dynamism, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, unconsciousness, insomnia, heat and perspiration strokes, tachycardia, increased temperature, etc. . After taking the preparation [Melbrosin], 30.5 percent . . had no sign of fatigue; 66.7 percent felt light fatigue; only 2.8 percent still complained of severe fatigue; 38.9 percent no longer suffered from anorexia; 41.6 percent exhibited light anorexia; 8.3 percent moderate anorexia; 44.4 percent suffered no longer of nausea; in 50 percent, nausea was reduced to the mildest form; in only 5.6 percent did the intensity remain unchanged. Great improvement was also achieved in psycho and neurovegetative complaints. . it was possible to conclude that improvement was obtained in 88.8 percent of the cases. . '

From Yuogslav, by Prof. Dr. Izet Osmanagic, University of Sarajevo, 'Reduced Sexual Potency:' 'Summary: . . forty patients were examined. Eighty percent suffered from relative or absolute reproductive impotence and some from reduced capacity for intercourse. .1. An improvement in the general state of health and subjective condition. 2. An increase in sexual activity. 3. Improved sperm production . . obvious proof of the positive effects of the preparation in cases of reduced sexual and procreative potency.'

A joint Swedish/German study of 212 male patients using twelve different urologists, showed improvement in a variety of sexual dysfunction and chronic prostatitis.

Using Cernilton, a Swedish pollen preparation, Dr. Gosta Leander of Stockholm reported in 'A Memorandum Concerning a Statistical Evaluation of the Results of a Clinical Investigation of Cernilton,' stating, '. . it can be confirmed that a statistically highly significant effect of the compound could be demonstrated in prostatovesiculitis, estimated on the basis of a double-blind control study of 93 patients, 50 of whom received the compound, and 43 of whom received the placebo. A 92 percent ascertained improvement was confirmed in the group given the compound. The effects of the compound found during the course of this study has been established as statistically highly significant.'

Egyptian scientists, F.A. Soliman and A. Soliman, in 'The Gonad Stimulating Potency of Date Palm Pollen Grains,' from the French journal Experientia, 'Several investigators have extracted estrogenic materials from palm kernels and date pollen grains. . a gonad-stimulating principle was extracted from pollens. . combined activity of the two hormones present in 1 gram of pollen is close to 10 I.U.'

From Yugoslavia, L. Pokrajcic and I. Osmanagic, entitled, 'The Treatment With Melbrosin of Dysmenorrhea in Adolescence.' [Melbrosin is a bee pollen/royal jelly compound.] One hundred and twenty 15 to 20 year old girls were included in this study which showed good results on 'patients with underdeveloped constitutions and irregular mentstrual cycles.'

From Yugoslavia, Endocrinological Department of the University Clinic for Women at the Medical Faculty in Sarajevo, in 'A Clinical Testing of The Effect of the Preparation Melbrosin on Women Suffering from Climacteric Syndrome,' '. . it may be said that in addition to causes of menopausal disturbances in general, this treatment offers justifiable indications that the preparation should be used in the treatment of all patients subjected to irradiation.'

'A two-year study conducted by former Russian Olympic coach, Remi Korchemny . . this study confirms is that bee pollen actually does improve the crucial recovery power of athletes after stressed performance.'

'A study reported by Aerospace Medicine & Life Sciences proved that the average daily consumption of food falls by 15 to 20 percent when bee pollen is a regular item on the menu.'

Dr. Lars-Erik Essen, M.D., . . dermatologist of Halsinborg, Sweden, says, 'Through transcutaneous nutrition, bee pollen exerts a profound biological effect. It seems to prevent premature aging of the cells and stimulates growth of new skin tissue. It offers effective protection against dehydration and injects new life into dry cells. It smooths away wrinkles and stimulates a life-giving blood supply to all skin cells.'

G. Liebold, a holistic physician and psychologist of Karlsruhe, Germany, in Bee Pollen: Valuable Good Nutriment & Remedy, 'Bee pollen should be used as prophylaxis and therapeutical treatment against all the disease of modern civilization. . Bee pollen is an excellent prophylaxis and therapeutical treatment against all the precocious symptoms of old age. It should be considered a universal geriatric treatment in the form of a natural remedy.'