1. One of the functions of royal jelly: enhancing the body's resistance.
Royal jelly can enhance physical fitness, improve immunity, enhance the body's invasion of external adverse factors, and improve the body's adaptability to adverse environment.
In order to understand the effect of royal jelly on organisms, scientists used mice to do experiments. They feed a group of mice with royal jelly, which is called the administration group, and feed a group of mice with the same amount of other foods, which is called the control group.
In order to carry out the fatigue test, the mice in the administration group and the control group were put into water at the same time. As a result, the mice in the control group were exhausted after a few minutes and soon drowned. However, the mice in the drug group died a few minutes later, and their anti-fatigue ability was more than 7 times that of the control group.
In the same way, royal jelly has also achieved remarkable results in improving the body's ability to withstand hypoxia, high temperature and low temperature.
In order to understand the specific mechanism of royal jelly on the body, the researchers dissected the mice in the above experiment and found that the phagocytosis percentage of macrophages which had a great impact on life in the administration group was more than doubled than that in the control group, indicating that the body's resistance had been greatly improved, which was proved by scholars at home and abroad. This result shows that royal jelly can not only improve the nonspecific immunity of the body, but also be related to the specific immunity and anticancer activity.
Radioactive substances are substances that can cause some diseases in the body, such as carcinogenesis and teratogenesis. In order to test whether royal jelly can improve the radiation tolerance of human body, mice in the administration group and the control group were irradiated at the same time, and the dose was enough to cause the death of mice. Results The mice in the control group only lived for 1 1 day, while the mice in the administration group lived for 19 days, which showed that the effect was very obvious.
2. The second function of royal jelly: delaying aging.
In the bee colony, the life span of queen bees feeding on royal jelly is 7 ~ 10 times longer than that of worker bees feeding on honey. It can be seen that royal jelly has the effect of delaying aging. The fruit fly experiment also got the same result.
At present, scientists have three theories about the causes of aging, namely: free radical theory, neuroendocrine theory and immune theory. Among them, the free radical theory holds that the reason of human aging is that the human body produces a free radical substance during metabolism, which will cause aging if it accumulates too much in the body. Royal jelly contains a kind of superoxide dismutase (SOD for short), which can protect the body from free radicals and eliminate free radicals in the body, so it can delay the aging of the body.
In addition, globulin, pantothenic acid and vitamin B6 contained in royal jelly have anti-aging effects on the body.
3. The third function of royal jelly: physiological regulation
The human body is a complex organism with multiple physiological functions. Only when these functions are coordinated and balanced can people be healthy and normal. This balance and coordination mainly depends on the regulation of the endocrine system of the body. If the endocrine system is out of balance, the body will get sick and even endanger life. At this time, artificial adjustment is needed. There are two ways to adjust, one is to adjust the endocrine system, and the other is to increase endocrine products to produce the same effect. Royal jelly can produce the above two regulatory effects on the endocrine system of the body. The regulatory effects of royal jelly on the body are briefly described as follows.
(1) Effect on reproductive system Royal jelly has gonadotropic effect. The results showed that female mice injected with royal jelly 2 1 day matured early, and the effect was proportional to the amount of royal jelly. After subcutaneous injection of royal jelly in mice, the average ovary of immature female mice increased 15g after 5 days. Injection of royal jelly after testicular resection in male rats can increase the weight of seminal vesicle. In the bee colony, worker bees feed the queen bee with royal jelly, and the queen bee can lay more than 2,500 eggs a day. As long as the worker bees don't feed the queen bee with royal jelly for several hours, the queen bee's ovaries will immediately stop developing and laying eggs. Feeding royal jelly to hens can increase the egg production of hens that lay eggs normally and make hens that stop laying eggs resume laying eggs. The above shows that royal jelly has the function of gonadotropin.
(2) Effect on hematopoietic system Royal jelly can enhance the function of hematopoietic system. Iron and copper in royal jelly are the raw materials for synthesizing hemoglobin, and the B vitamin complex in royal jelly promotes this effect. The results of animal experiments show that injection or oral administration of royal jelly can increase the number of hemoglobin, reticular cells and platelets and the diameter of red blood cells. In addition, royal jelly can stimulate the hematopoietic function of bone marrow, reduce the mortality rate of mice caused by 6- hydroxypurine (a substance that has an inhibitory effect on bone marrow), prolong its life and reduce its inhibitory effect on bone marrow.
(3) The effect of royal jelly on blood sugar; Royal jelly can lower the blood sugar of animals. Experimental animals have proved that royal jelly can reduce the blood sugar of normal animals, as well as diabetic hyperglycemia and metabolic hyperglycemia caused by alloxan. After 2-6 hours, the blood sugar decreased by 35.6% and 40.3% respectively, and the effect was significantly different from that of the control group. The results show that royal jelly can reduce blood sugar, which is related to several insulin peptides in protein contained in royal jelly.
(4) Effects of Royal Jelly on Cardiovascular System The experimental results at home and abroad show that rabbits are fed with high cholesterol feed, and one group is injected with Royal Jelly or fed with Royal Jelly for a long time. Anatomical research shows that royal jelly can relieve arteriosclerosis, reduce cholesterol and blood lipid, prevent the infiltration of liver fat and cirrhosis, and reduce the mortality caused by it.
The researchers injected royal jelly intravenously into anesthetized cats, which can significantly reduce their blood pressure and rapidly and permanently dilate the coronary vessels of isolated cat hearts. Therefore, royal jelly can lower blood pressure and expand cardiovascular system.
(5) Effect of royal jelly on respiratory system; Royal jelly can improve the respiratory function of animal liver mitochondria. Inject or feed royal jelly to guinea pigs. Eight days later, the guinea pigs were killed and the oxygen consumption of their liver and heart was measured. The results showed that royal jelly increased the average oxygen consumption of liver by more than 77%, and the oxygen consumption reflected the respiratory function of mitochondria in each tissue. Therefore, royal jelly significantly improved the respiratory function of liver mitochondria.
(6) Effect of royal jelly on iodine metabolism After feeding rats with royal jelly for a period of time, their thyroid weight increased. After injecting royal jelly into mice, the iodine uptake capacity of thyroid gland was improved by more than 99.5% compared with the control group. The results show that royal jelly can improve the ability of human body to absorb iodine.
4. The fourth function of royal jelly: promoting tissue regeneration.
For trauma, young people always heal faster than the elderly, which is related to the strong vitality of young people, that is, the ability of tissue regeneration. Experiments show that royal jelly can promote cell regeneration.
The sciatic nerve of rats was artificially injured, so that the flexion and extension reflex function of their hind limbs was temporarily lost, and then the rats were fed royal jelly. The results show that royal jelly can promote the regeneration of sciatic nerve in rats, especially in the injured hind limbs, and the recovery of reflex activity is much faster than that in the control group, which proves that royal jelly has obvious effect on nerve injury.
Similarly, part of the kidneys of mice were removed artificially, and then they were given royal jelly. As a result, renal tissue regeneration has also occurred, such as cell density and renal tubules.
The above experiments prove that royal jelly can promote tissue regeneration.
5. The fifth function of royal jelly: anticancer effect.
Cancer is one of the killers of human health, and people often talk about cancer discoloration. In order to prevent and treat cancer, many medical workers are looking for drugs to treat cancer, and royal jelly has also become the research object of researchers.
Experts from the University of Toronto in Canada and Ontario Agricultural College conducted repeated experiments on nearly 1000 mice within two years. Results: Mice inoculated with cancer cells and royal jelly were still healthy for more than 12 months, while other mice inoculated with cancer cells but without royal jelly died within 2 1 day. Many experiments have proved that the mixture of royal jelly and cancer cells can completely prevent leukemia, lymphoma and ascites cancer in mice.
The experimental results are exciting, but there are also some unsatisfactory places, that is, royal jelly can only inhibit cancer cells if it is mixed with cancer cells and implanted in the body at the same time. If you wait until your body has cancer before injecting royal jelly, the effect is not obvious. This result shows that royal jelly can prevent cancer. Therefore, as long as people take royal jelly regularly, they can prevent cancer.
Why can royal jelly inhibit the occurrence of cancer cells? Experiments show that 10-had (royal jelly acid) and sebacic acid in royal jelly are effective anticancer components. In addition, royal jelly can improve human immunity and enhance the anti-cancer ability of human body.
6. The sixth function of royal jelly: antibacterial and anti-inflammatory.
Royal jelly has strong antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects. Relevant data show that royal jelly has a strong inhibitory effect on many bacteria. The use of 7.5 mg royal jelly can inhibit the growth of Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Proteus giganteus. Some people compare the antibacterial effect of royal jelly with penicillin. Rats were locally infected with Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Proteus N and Streptococcus hemolyticus. Then, the experimental group was treated with 10% royal jelly aqueous solution, while the control group was treated with 2 000 units of penicillin. Results: The wounds in the experimental group began to heal after 13 ~ 20 days, while those in the control group began to heal after 18 ~ 20 days.
The above experiments show that royal jelly has antibacterial and healing effects on wound infection. The test also showed that the antibacterial spectrum of royal jelly was Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus, Proteus, Bacillus subtilis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Trichophyton stellatum and Trichophyton epidermidis.
Animal experiments show that royal jelly has obvious inhibitory effects on formaldehyde-induced toe swelling in rats and xylene-induced ear inflammation in mice. This shows that royal jelly has obvious inhibitory effect on vascular permeability exudation, hyperfunction and edema in the early stage of inflammation.
Royal jelly has achieved good results in treating some inflammation in clinic.
The antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects of royal jelly are related to pH value. When pH value is 4.5, the antibacterial activity is the strongest, when pH value is 7, the antibacterial activity is weakened, and when pH value is 8, the antibacterial activity disappears. Royal jelly has a pH value of 3.5 ~ 4.5, so it has the strongest antibacterial and anti-inflammatory ability under natural conditions.
Modern science and technology apply advanced freeze-drying preservation technology to royal jelly to make royal jelly freeze-dried powder, which overcomes the problem that fresh royal jelly is not easy to preserve. Freeze-drying is the best way to keep royal jelly fresh. Application of advanced freeze-drying preservation technology (widely used in the preservation of medical vaccines, plasma, etc. ) Fresh royal jelly can be sublimated at ultra-low temperature and high vacuum to make into freeze-dried powder, which can be preserved for a long time even at room temperature.
The biggest disadvantage of fresh royal jelly is that it must be frozen, otherwise the active substances in it will be easily destroyed, which will affect the health care function of royal jelly. Freeze-dried powder concentrates fresh royal jelly at the ratio of 3: 1, which not only retains the active substances of royal jelly, but also eliminates some harmful substances such as heavy metals in fresh royal jelly, making it safer for human consumption. Good freeze-dried royal jelly powder contains more than 6% HDA, which is more than 4 times higher than ordinary royal jelly. Moreover, the freeze-dried royal jelly powder can be stored at normal temperature, which is convenient for storage, carrying and taking.
HDA, the effective component of royal jelly freeze-dried powder, is absorbed in the intestine, and HDA (also known as royal jelly acid) will be destroyed by gastric acid if it stays in the stomach for too long. The shell of royal jelly freeze-dried powder capsule can delay the contact time between royal jelly and gastric acid, greatly shorten the mixing time between royal jelly acid and gastric acid, and thus increase the absorption rate of HDA in royal jelly in intestine. Scientists report that the absorption rate of capsule shell royal jelly freeze-dried powder is three times higher than that of ordinary oral liquid. But also easy to store and carry.
Royal jelly is a natural healthy food. The content of decenoic acid is very high.
Important indicators. The content of decenoic acid depends on bee species, feed, insect age, season, time and yield.
Restrict. Bee species with low pulp production are higher than those with high pulp production; Feeding mixed pollen is higher than single pollen; Getting older every day.
Old age; Spring and winter are higher than summer and autumn.
A special food that only the queen bee can eat.
Royal jelly is a nutritional treasure house that supports the amazing vitality of the queen bee.
"Like thick honey, soft yellow substance,
The queen bee's larvae were born here. "
This is the description of royal jelly by the philosopher Aristotle (384 ~ 322 BC) in his book Fauna.
When Aristotle learned that the bee larvae floating in this creamy liquid with completely different color and taste from honey would grow into the queen bee, he thought that royal jelly itself was the magic key to produce the queen bee.
People have known the efficacy of royal jelly since ancient Greece, and people began to know more about it around19th century. But royal jelly, as a kind of health food, attracted worldwide attention in 1950s. The cause of the matter is this. At that time, Pope Pius ⅹ Ⅱ, who was over 80 years old, got sick once and drank royal jelly. Someone published this in the international society of 1955. Later, in order to thank the royal jelly, PIYA/KOOC-0/2 personally attended the/KOOC-0/7 International Beekeeping Conference held in Rome in/KOOC-0/958, and made a speech praising bees.
This anecdote soon spread all over the world, and royal jelly, as a kind of health food, also attracted the attention of the world.
Royal jelly, which is said to be very effective and mysterious, is actually the only food that the queen bee eats all her life. Because of this, royal jelly is also called "royal jelly".
Like the queen bee, the bee larvae hatched from fertilized eggs are fed with royal jelly for the first 3 days or so. From now on, only queen bee larvae will be fed with royal jelly, while worker bee larvae will be fed with a mixture of pollen and honey.
The queen bee only eats enough royal jelly in a hive called "Wangtai", so she has many characteristics and abilities that worker bees don't have. For example, the constitution of queen bee is about 2 ~ 3 times that of worker bee; Compared with the life span of worker bees 1 month or more, the life span of queen bees is very long, which is 3 ~ 4 years, 30 ~ 40 times that of worker bees. The queen bee can continuously lay about 1500 ~ 2000 eggs every day. Worker bees, like queen bees, generally have no ability to lay eggs, so the important ability to reproduce life and maintain bee society is only given to queen bees.
The nutritional treasure house that supports the amazing vitality of the queen bee is royal jelly.
The raw material of royal jelly is the pollen collected by bees from flowers, which is digested, decomposed and produced by worker bees in the body, and then secreted from hypopharyngeal gland and maxillary gland, which is royal jelly.
In the natural state, in the spring and summer when the next queen bee is born, bees build several special hives for queen bee larvae. These special beehives are called "Wangtai", which are very similar in size and shape to peanut shells. After the eggs produced in Wangtai are hatched, worker bees secrete royal jelly and store it in Wangtai to prepare bait for this larva.
The fresh royal jelly produced in this way is a milky creamy substance with a slight sour taste.
Royal jelly and honey are completely different substances in terms of formation process and composition.
Royal jelly produces little in its natural state.
For this reason, beekeepers have invented a technology to collect as much royal jelly as possible by using the habits of bees. Specifically, if there is no queen bee in the hive, bees will feed royal jelly to the larvae of worker bees (within 3 days after hatching) to cultivate a new queen bee. This technology takes advantage of this habit of bees. We first use a tool called "queen bee partition" to enclose a place isolated from the queen bee in the hive, and then imitate the natural queen bee platform and make several small plastic artificial queen bee platforms to move the newly hatched worker bee larvae in. Then insert an artificial queen bee platform in the place isolated from the queen bee, and let the bees feed the larvae in the artificial queen bee platform as the queen bee. It takes about 48 ~ 72 hours to fill the artificial queen's platform with royal jelly. When it is full, take out the larvae and collect royal jelly.
A royal platform can collect about 300mg of royal jelly, which is very small. If a hive contains 50 ~ 60 artificial queen bees, the output of fresh royal jelly in a hive is only about 15g.
Royal jelly produced by bees weighing less than 0. 1g is really too rare and expensive.
Balanced and rich in more than 40 nutrients.
Wanmei food
The main body of royal jelly is protein, sugar and fat, and there are 22 kinds of amino acids, including all essential amino acids (※), and it is also rich in vitamins and minerals.
10- hydroxy -δ-2- decenoic acid (hereinafter referred to as "decenoic acid") exists only in royal jelly and is a unique component of royal jelly. In recent years, its curative effect has attracted much attention. The content of various vitamins in royal jelly, except vitamin C, is dozens of times that of honey, and the content of pantothenic acid is outstanding in food, which is called "beauty vitamin". In addition, royal jelly contains more acetylcholine than other foods. Therefore, royal jelly is rich in more than 40 kinds of nutrients and is an ideal and perfect food.
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Royal jelly is a mixture secreted by the tongue gland and upper gland of young male bees. It is milky white or yellowish paste, sour, astringent, pungent, spicy and slightly sweet, and has a special aroma. Royal jelly contains a variety of rich nutrients, such as protein, peptides, amino acids, organic acids, vitamins, lipids, minerals and so on. In particular, royal jelly contains a kind of 10 hydroxy -2- decyl dilute acid, which is a unique substance of royal jelly and is called royal jelly acid, so royal jelly has extremely high nutritional value. Royal jelly has the functions of strengthening physical strength, enhancing immunity, promoting growth and development, promoting regeneration of damaged tissues, improving thinking ability and resilience, inhibiting cancer and tumor, improving sleep and sexual function, resisting bacteria and inflammation, resisting radiation and chemotherapy, improving hematopoietic function, lowering blood sugar, enhancing respiratory function, strengthening cardiovascular system, and preventing atherosclerosis and hyperlipidemia. Improve digestive function, make skin white and delicate, hair black and bright, hair loss, broken hair and facial freckles gradually disappear. Royal jelly can not only strengthen the body, get rid of diseases and prolong life, but also prevent and treat dermatoses and beauty beauty. Therefore, royal jelly is a safe and efficient natural beauty product, which can be taken orally and externally.