Can I eat beeswax? How to eat?

Can be eaten directly, pure beeswax is a traditional Chinese medicine, and other Chinese medicine ingredients can be made into Chinese medicine pills for internal use, but also can be directly and food decoction, such as scrambled eggs, serving can be very good treatment of bronchitis, chronic bronchitis, and a variety of consumptive diseases.

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Beeswax composition

Beeswax is a complex organic compound. The main components of beeswax are esters, fatty acids and sugars synthesized from high-level fatty acids and monohydric alcohols, but there are some differences in their composition depending on the species of bees, pollen source plants, and refining methods.

1, esters

Fatty acid esters include monoesters and hydroxyl esters, the content of which is 70%~75%. There are 23% of palmitic acid beeswax ester, 2% of palmitic acid beeswax ester, 12% of wax acid beeswax ester and 12% of pyrogallic acid beeswax ester in single esters. Hydroxy esters have hydroxy palmitic acid wax alcohol ester 8%~9%, double ester 9%~9.5%, acid ester 4%~4.5%.

2, fatty acids

Free fatty acid content of 10%~15%; saturated fatty acids 9%~11%, of which 3.3%~4.4% wax acid, wood tar acid 1%~1.5%, beeswax acid and lignocellulosic acid 2%, leaf lice acid 1.3%~1.5%, pyrogallic gallic acid 1.5% and so on.

Pharmacological effects

1, active ammonia scavenging effect, Chinese beeswax has scavenging effect on -OH from Fenton's system and O2 from X/XO system. 2.5 μg/ml or more concentration can completely inhibit lipid hyperammonia, and also can be concentration-dependent inhibition of SOD induction.

2, other effects, beeswax and its emulsion has antibacterial and antiseptic effect. And heparin 100-150mg suspended in beeswax 0.5-1.5ml, given by intravenous injection, can make heparin anticoagulant effect prolonged.

Beeswax collection and extraction

Beeswax collection is mostly done in spring and fall. Beekeepers promote the bees to produce more wax and build more spleens by strengthening the management of beekeeping, and then collect the old hive spleens that have been used for many years, the superfluous spleens that have been built, the wax caps that have been cut out of the hive, the table base, and the honey caps that have been cut out of the hive when it is shaken with honey.

Physical properties of beeswax

Pure beeswax is white, usually seen beeswax is yellowish, medium yellow or dark brown, etc., which is due to the presence of pollen, propolis fat-soluble carotenoids or other pigments.

At room temperature, beeswax is a solid state, with a similar honey and bee pollen flavor beeswax scent odor. The specific gravity of beeswax is 0.954~0.964 at 20°C. The melting point varies with the source and the processing and extraction methods, generally between 62~67°C. Beeswax is smoked at 300°C and decomposed into carbon dioxide, acetic acid and other volatile substances.

Low outside temperature, the original wax contains many impurities, showing a special odor. The original wax is treated with special technology to remove impurities, decolorization, deodorization, and other treatments, and then the high quality refined beeswax is obtained.