I. Royal jelly: also known as royal jelly, royal jelly, royal milk, queen bee milk, bee milk, is the secretion of the pharyngeal head gland of young worker bees cultivating larvae in the hive of honey bees, is the food supplied to the larvae that will become queen bees, and is also the life-long food of the queen bee. The so-called royal jelly is a kind of milky substance secreted by young and strong bees after consuming pollen, which is like mammalian milk and has great nutritional value and immune function and contains high longevity factor. Bees and queen bees are the same during the egg stage, those who eat royal jelly for three days after hatching and then change to honey and pollen will grow up to become bees, and those who eat royal jelly all the time will grow up to become queens, and the lifespan of the bees is from one to six months while the queen bees live in one to six months because of consuming royal jelly all the time. Honey bees live from one to six months, while queen bees can live five to seven years because they have been consuming royal jelly. The color of royal jelly is slightly changed according to the different pollen consumed by the bees and is generally divided into milky white and yellowish.

Two. Consumption:

Royal jelly consumption time: generally 30 minutes to 1 hour before breakfast, about 30 minutes before going to sleep at night, morning and evening once. Because fasting consumption is better absorption, by the destruction of stomach acid is also correspondingly small.

It is best to put royal jelly under the tongue rather than directly in the mouth, slowly swallowed, so that the body fully absorbed. Can not be taken with hot water, the composition of the heat or else a large number of nutrient loss. If you do not adapt to the flavor of royal jelly, available honey 2 parts, fresh royal jelly 1 part mixed with honey bee pollen at the same time, but it is best to eat alone. Warm tips: royal jelly frozen, frozen into ice cubes directly tongue swallowed than thawed after eating the taste is much better. The flavor is worse after thawing and some people can't stand it.

(1) Royal jelly is a natural substance that can be consumed directly and absorbed by the body. Generally morning and evening once a day, regular health care shall not exceed 5 grams a day, better on an empty stomach. It is best to eat before going to bed. Sublingual, or served with warm water, because royal jelly has natural active substances, do not heat the food. In order to avoid the loss of nutrients

(2) the old and weak and the more serious symptoms of the disease, can be increased in moderation, the dose increases will not produce side effects. Patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease and other cardiovascular diseases should take it early in the morning or 2-3 hours before bedtime.

(3) The taste of royal jelly is special, in order to improve the taste and make the nutrition more comprehensive, more stable quality, can be prepared into royal jelly honey consumption. General 1000 grams of honey 100-200 grams of royal jelly mixed, morning and evening once, 10-20 grams each time, warm water to serve, prepared royal jelly honey can be placed in the refrigerator when not in use to save the cold room.

(4) Contained, take a small amount of fresh royal jelly (2-5 grams) contained under the tongue, the effect is more obvious.

(5) For health care: 1000 grams of high quality honey added to 100-200 grams of fresh royal jelly, mix thoroughly, placed in the refrigerator, 1-2 times a day, 20 grams each time, warm water or brewing, if there is any discomfort, you can take it after meals (it is best to take each time the best mixing or shaking, because the royal jelly has a small specific gravity, it is easy to float). For curing diseases, 300-500 grams of fresh royal jelly can be added to every 1000 grams of honey.

It should be noted that royal jelly is hot in nature, and people who are on fire or have a large body fire should pay attention to moderate consumption.

Dosage and Use

Swallowing

The royal jelly is mixed into honey to make oral liquid, or the royal jelly is mixed with honey and white wine to make royal jelly wine, or the royal jelly is frozen into royal jelly powder in a freeze dryer, or the royal jelly is mixed into sugar or sugar, all of the above products can be used in the method of swallowing, that is, the royal jelly products can be swallowed directly. Then you can drink some boiled water.

Taking royal jelly by mouth

This method of taking royal jelly is recommended by Yorish, a scholar from the former Soviet Union. The method is to use a dropper to the patient's tongue drops of royal jelly solution, 4 times a day, 5 drops each time, the total **** dose of 200mg. This method of royal jelly in the sublingual mucous membrane is directly absorbed, and then by the bloodstream to the whole body, therefore, the royal jelly dosage is small and high utilization rate. In addition, royal jelly can also be made into dry powder and then pressed into tablets, and the royal jelly tablets are placed under the tongue and dissolved and then absorbed.

Suitable people

1, weak, sick, aging elderly.

2. Women who want to get rid of spots and wrinkles and moisturize their skin.

3, the lack of energy, easy to fatigue of the working class.

4, hypertension patients who are weak.

5, insomnia.

Not suitable for people

Children (under 16 years old) absolutely can not eat. Many parents expect their children to have extraordinary intelligence, outstanding physical stature, they give their children to supplement royal jelly, but the results are not what they hoped for, and children who take royal jelly for a long time, often premature sexual maturity.

Have come across a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl, summer vacation to play at grandpa's house, it happens to be grandpa's family is a beekeeper, so every day for dinner to give her a spoonful of pure royal jelly, as a result, a summer down, was only seventy or eighty pounds of the little girl, the weight of the instantly soared to 140 pounds, the breasts are also showing signs of development.

Patients suffering from breast disease, ovarian and uterine diseases can not eat, such as breast hyperplasia, breast fibroids, breast cancer, fibroids, uterine polyps, etc., otherwise it will aggravate the condition. These patients in vivo estrogen levels are unstable, and then drink royal jelly is equal to the fire, in the clinic has encountered by drinking royal jelly beauty girl, but the result is to breast lumps as big as buns.

Pregnant women can't eat. After pregnancy, the body's hormone levels will change, at this time, the level of estrogen is lower, the level of progesterone is higher, drink royal jelly will change the level of estrogen, not only is not conducive to the growth and development of the fetus, but also increase the chances of miscarriage or preterm delivery.

Elderly men can't eat it. Otherwise it will promote breast development.

People who have just had surgery. After surgery, the deficiency is not tonic, drinking royal jelly is easy to make the patient's liver and yang hyperactivity, qi obstruction and heat and cause bleeding in the five senses.

Allergic people are also not suitable. Royal jelly is a high-protein food, and eating it indiscriminately can induce severe anaphylaxis.

Consumption taboos

There are also some dietary taboos when consuming royal jelly. Because royal jelly contains heterogeneous proteins from pollen and bee venom peptides, some people are easily allergic to this, should pay attention to when taking, allergic people should avoid eating. There is also low blood sugar should be avoided. Mainly because royal jelly has insulin-like substances, can enhance the hypoglycemic effect of insulin in the body, will exacerbate the hypoglycemic reaction. People who are weak, have loose stools or diarrhea should not eat it. In addition, the development of normal children should not drink royal jelly, mainly because children taking royal jelly is easy to promote the development of sexual organs, precocious puberty; malnutrition, stunted children 1 gram per day, one to three months can be significantly improved.

Consumption Note

Royal jelly can not be taken with boiling water or tea, because the temperature is too high and easy to destroy its active substances, tea in the ellagic acid and iron, will reduce its efficacy. Another point is that it must be taken for a long time to be effective.

Shelf life: royal jelly requires storage at low temperatures, storage temperature to -5 - 7 ℃ is appropriate. Practice has proved that under such temperature conditions, stored for a year, its composition changes very little, in -18 ℃ can be stored for several years, will not deteriorate. Capsules and tablets can be at room temperature can be stored for 2 years.

Eating royal jelly before bedtime is a wrong diet. This is because royal jelly is rich in saccharides, which can increase blood viscosity after entering the blood vessels. People in sleep heart rate slows down, the blood flow rate has slowed down, if you take royal jelly before going to bed, it may lead to local hemodynamic abnormalities, resulting in microcirculation disorders, easy to promote the formation of cerebral thrombosis.

Three.

1, assist in lowering blood sugar. This effect is mainly due to its content of insulin-like peptide reasoning, insulin-like peptide is the treatment of diabetes mellitus special drugs. Experiments have proved that 10 grams of royal jelly per day combined with Linzhongling has the effect of treating diabetes and insomnia.

2. Antioxidant effect. This effect is royal jelly by the public generally recognized role, it has a strong effect on the repair of cells as well as regeneration. The superoxide dismutase (SOD) detected in royal jelly is the main component of antioxidant.

3. Lowering blood lipids. Royal jelly contains more than 10 kinds of vitamins necessary for the human body, can balance the fat metabolism and sugar metabolism, can reduce high blood fat and high blood sugar in obese people, very suitable for obese diabetic patients.

4, control vasodilation, lower blood pressure. This conclusion comes from the 10-hydroxy-decenoic acid (royal jelly acid) and royal jelly major protein-1 it contains.

5. Protect the liver. Royal jelly is not only able to kill hepatitis virus, and can inhibit virus replication in liver cells. Flavonoids and other substances in propolis have the effect of reducing aminotransferases, promote liver cell regeneration, to prevent liver hardening, such patients, is not suitable for taking alcohol-containing propolis products, but should take non-alcoholic content of higher propolis softgel capsules or concentrates.

6, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory. Royal jelly has antibacterial and wound infections have a role in promoting healing. Tests have also shown that the antibacterial spectrum of royal jelly for Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus Typhoid bacillus, Streptococcus, Streptococcus, Bacillus, Bacillus subtilis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Serratia stellate and Serratia epidermidis, and so on. The antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects of royal jelly are related to pH. When the pH is 4.5, the antibacterial effect is the strongest, when the pH is 7, the antibacterial effect is weakened, and when the pH is 8, the antibacterial effect disappears. The pH of royal jelly is between 3.5 and 4.5, so it has the strongest antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties in its natural condition.

7, anti-aging effect, and strengthen the role of sexual function, but also anti-radiation, enhance the role of memory.