Beeswax is a substance secreted by four pairs of wax glands under the abdomen of worker bees. How to use beeswax? The following is the content about the usage of beeswax compiled by me. I hope you like it!
How to use beeswax
1. Wax donkey-hide gelatin eggs
Recipe: 5 fresh eggs, 10 grams of donkey-hide gelatin powder (fried beads with oysters, crushed), 30 grams of beeswax.
Preparation: First melt the beeswax, beat in the eggs, add donkey-hide gelatin powder, and mix well.
Usage: 1 dose per day, divided into 2 times and taken warmly.
Efficacy: Promotes blood circulation and softens hardness. It is suitable for chronic leukemia with Qi and blood deficiency. The clinical manifestations are pale complexion, fatigue, palpitation, shortness of breath, dizziness, occasional bleeding in the nasal cavity, gums, subcutaneous and other parts, pale red tongue, thin coating, and soft and thready pulse.
2. Fruit and sesame glutinous rice
Recipe: 2.75 kilograms of glutinous rice, 2.05 kilograms of japonica rice, 25 grams of beeswax, 3.5 kilograms of eight-fruit filling, 100 grams of white sesame seeds, and 100 grams of peanut oil.
Preparation method: Soak glutinous rice and japonica rice in clean water for about 2 hours, rinse out, decant the water, add about 2.5 kilograms of new water, and grind it with a stone mill to make rice slurry. Fry the white sesame seeds over low heat until cooked. Pour the beeswax into the hot oil to dissolve it. Then pour the rice milk into a basket covered with cloth and steam it over high heat for about 2.5 hours. Move the cloth into the porcelain bowl, grab the corner of the cloth with one hand, and rub it on the cloth with the other hand until the sticky cooking agent becomes sticky. Apply beeswax to the drawing board, and then use beeswax to spread evenly on the outside of the cooking agent.
3. Stir-fried pork belly with wax
Ingredients: One pork belly, 30 grams of beeswax, and appropriate amount of salt.
Method:
1. Wash the pork belly, cut into pieces and stir-fry over high heat until cooked.
2. Add an appropriate amount of beeswax and stir-fry until the beeswax is completely melted. Add an appropriate amount of salt to keep it hot and eat.
3. When it’s cool, return it to the pot and heat it up, otherwise it will stick to your teeth and be difficult to swallow.
Efficacy: It is especially good to eat pork belly cooked with beeswax during the confinement period. It can replenish the stomach. Beeswax is the best for replenishing the intestines and stomach. Fried pork tripe with beeswax is mild in nature and suitable for restoring gastric mucosal damage. It is also good for treating gastric diseases. It has a good auxiliary effect.
Pharmacological effects of beeswax
1. Active ammonia scavenging effect. Chinese beeswax has scavenging effect on both ?OH from Fenton system and O2 from X/XO system. Concentrations above 2.5?g/ml completely inhibit lipid overammonification, and can also inhibit SOD induction in a concentration-dependent manner.
2. Other effects: beeswax and its emulsion have antibacterial and antiseptic effects. And suspending 100-150 mg of heparin in 0.5-1.5 ml of beeswax and giving it intravenously can prolong the anticoagulant effect of heparin.
Collection and extraction of beeswax
Beeswax collection is mostly completed in spring and autumn. By strengthening bee colony breeding and management, beekeepers encourage bees to secrete more wax and build more spleens, and then use the old nest spleens that have been used for many years, the extra spleens built, the wax cover and platform base of the hive, and the honeycombs cut off when shaking honey. The honey caps are collected and extracted manually. Generally, the honeycomb is heated and melted in a water pot to remove impurities such as the upper layer of cocoons, bee corpses, and foam. It is filtered while hot and allowed to cool, and the beeswax condenses. It forms into lumps, floats on the water surface, and is taken out to become yellow wax. The yellow wax is then refined and decolorized to become white wax.
Physical properties of beeswax
Pure beeswax is white. Usually beeswax is light yellow, medium yellow or dark brown. This is due to the fat solubility in pollen and propolis. Caused by carotenoids or other pigments. At room temperature, beeswax is in a solid state and has a beeswax aroma similar to honey and bee pollen. The specific gravity at 20℃ is 0.954~0.964. The melting point varies with the source and processing and extraction methods, but is generally between 62 and 67°C. At 300°C, beeswax turns into smoke and decomposes into volatile substances such as carbon dioxide and acetic acid.
The outside temperature is low, and the raw wax contains many impurities, giving it a special smell. The raw wax is treated with impurities, decolorization, and deodorization through special processes, and high-quality refined beeswax is obtained.