Honey Bees And Medicinal Use Of Honey


No insect have served the need of human like honey bees. For centuries beekeepers have raised honey bee and harvest the sweet honey they produce and the honey is used for different satisfaction. A honey can be kept at a room temperature for centuries with out getting spoiled because of the low water level it posses (less than 17% with high sugar content), the only changes you will observe is it's crystallization, which is a natural process and can be reversed by heating. To prove these point you can check honey samples which are thousand of years old with the present one and you will encounter no any  difference. A 3000 year old batch of honey which was found in an ancient Egyptian tomb and it was still edible.


In stores, you may find out that there are different brand of honey which some are sold as natural ointment because of honey's anti-microbial properties which has been known for centuries. The history of honey has attracted so many scientists to study the chemical properties to understand the biochemical mechanism behind it's medicinal properties. The research earlier shows that there are mechanisms behind it's antimicrobial qualities.
    The factors are :
High acidity ( pH 3.5-4 )
Low water level ( less than 17% )
Hydrogen peroxide
    and other organic compounds such as phenolic and methylglyoxal.


According to a recent research by Susan M. Meschwiz of Salve Regina University shows that honey prevent bacteria from communicating with other bacteria via a chemical way that bacterium ( bacteria cell ) coordinates with their neighbors to coordinate certain behaviors, such as bio-film formation, virulence and antibiotic resistance. So with the help of the research, honey is known to serve as an anti-microbial substance which means it fight micro organism such as bacteria and is used for medical purposes.


A honey bee can fly at a speed of more than 15 miles per hour which it makes them flip their wings 12,000 times per minute. A colony of honey bees can contain more than 60,000 bees at the peak. A single honey bee worker produces 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in her life time and the worker bee must produce 60 lbs of honey  to sustain the entire colony during winter, so it takes 10,000 of workers to get the job done.


The honey bees use the most complex symbolic language of any animal on earth outside of the primate family, Karl von frisch received a Nobel price in medicine in 1873 for cracking the language code that honey bees use.-the wangle dance
    Honey bees produce beeswax from a special gland in their abdomen.
    A hardworking honey bee visits more than 2,000 flower a day, she can't carry pollen from all the flowers at a time so she take for 50-100 before heading home. A hardworking forager may just live for 3 weeks.




Reference:
The fountain magazine
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