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What is Bee Propolis? - McDowell's Herbal Treatments

Propolis Extract is a unique gift from nature for your everyday health, immune support and general wellbeing. Propolis is an amazing healing compound made by bees its medicinal properties have been known to humans since ancient times...

What is Native bee propolis?

There are over 1,600 native bee species (Apidae Meliponini) in Australian. Commercial honey bees (Apis mellifera) are not native to Australia, and were introduced from Europe in about 1822. Bees make propolis from tree resins, young bud oils and plant sap that they collect to build unique hive structures to provide highly effective hive hygiene and safety. 

Native Bee Propolis has:

  • Very high bio-activity levels
  • Potent anti-bacterial
  • Anti-fungal properties
  • Anti-viral properties
  • Anti-inflammatory properties
  • Anti-oxidant properties

How is it made?

Bees manufacture propolis by harvesting and mixing a range of tree resins and plant sap with their own wax and enzymes to produce a brown sticky substance. They use it to protect and sanitise their hives and to build structures in the hive. Trees produce resins to heal themselves when injured. Resins have powerful healing properties which safeguards the tree from infection and attacks.

We've chosen to stock Native Beeings® because they specifically place their hives in rain forest and native bush environments so that the bees can forage and collect resins from a very wide variety of trees and plants. This wide variety of resins provides a diverse and complex spectrum of medicinal properties which results in the high bio-activity levels of their Native Beeings® propolis. Repeated scientific testing has shown that their native bee propolis has 70% higher bio-activity levels than available honey bee propolis products.

 

Native Beeings products have been developed with the wellbeing of the bees in mind and include:

  • Supporting their bees during adverse weather or drought by making specially formulated food supplements available to them, if needed.
  • They only collect small quantities of propolis in a completely non-intrusive and sustainable manner.
  • They do not collect honey from our bees as it is very important for their food security during challenging times
  • Thier bees are kept in natural bush and rain forests and therefore not exposed to harmful chemicals and pesticides and are 100% organic

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