Propolis is a natural substance produced by bees with disinfectant, anti-inflammatory and healing properties.
Let's discover its benefits and how to use this natural remedy.
Alcohol-Free Propolis Mother Tincture: properties and benefits?
The propolis is a resinous substance that bees collect from the buds and bark of certain plants such as poplars, birches, pines, firs, horse chestnuts, willows, oaks and elms.. It is therefore a substance of purely plant origin, although after collection the bees process it by adding wax, pollen and enzymes produced by their own organism. The color can vary greatly in shades of the yellow, the red, the brown and black. Thesmell is strongly aromatic depending on the plant from which it is collected.
What is propolis used for? Let's discover the benefits of propolis
Propolis is essentially a substance that serves bees and which, over the centuries, has also been used by humans for its beneficial properties.
In fact, bees use this substance both for its biological properties (antibacterial and antifungal) both for closing holes and cracks, repairing the honeycombs and strengthening their thin edges, as thermal insulation and to repair the hive against drafts, to narrow the access points to the nest in order to prevent invaders from entering, and to prevent the decomposition of the corpses of killed invaders by mummifying them.
It is currently estimated that the substances present in propolis there are more than 300, and it is
consisting largely of resins and balsams (50%), wax (25%), essential oils volatile compounds (10%), pollen (5%), organic and mineral material (5%). The flavonoids which, enhanced by the presence of anti-inflammatory agents and vitamins (C, E, B1, B2, B6, PP), they play an important protective role for the blood capillaries.
The therapeutic properties of propolis are due to all these substances, which primarily give it antibiotic, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and immune-stimulating properties.
What is propolis used for? Let's discover the benefits of propolis
Propolis is essentially a substance that serves bees and which, over the centuries, has also been used by humans for its beneficial properties.
In fact, bees use this substance both for its biological properties (antibacterial and antifungal) both for closing holes and cracks, repairing the honeycombs and strengthening their thin edges, as thermal insulation and to repair the hive against drafts, to narrow the access points to the nest in order to prevent invaders from entering, and to prevent the decomposition of the corpses of killed invaders by mummifying them.
It is currently estimated that the substances present in propolis there are more than 300, and it is
consisting largely of resins and balsams (50%), wax (25%), essential oils volatile compounds (10%), pollen (5%), organic and mineral material (5%). The flavonoids which, enhanced by the presence of anti-inflammatory agents and vitamins (C, E, B1, B2, B6, PP), they play an important protective role for the blood capillaries.
The therapeutic properties of propolis are due to all these substances, which primarily give it antibiotic, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and immune-stimulating properties.
Propolis Mother Tincture
The Mother Tincture (MT) is a liquid preparation obtained by extracting the fresh drug using percolation o maceration with a suitable solvent. The solvent most commonly used in Mother Tinctures is a hydroalcoholic solution (water + alcohol) with a variable strength (most often between 60° and 80°), depending on the solubility of the active ingredients to be extracted.
The Mother Tincture of Propolis is an herbal preparation extracted from Raw Propolis, which is macerated at a 1:10 ratio in a solution of water and Alcohol. It is an herbal remedy considered useful for colds, other respiratory tract conditions and oral cavity conditions.
Alcohol-Free Propolis: what is it?
In recent years, Mother Tinctures extracted with Vegetable Glycerin instead of Alcohol, which makes them better from several points of view.
Furthermore, since Glycerin is a type of solvent that is less powerful and therefore less extractive than Alcohol, innovative extraction techniques are used, such asUltrasound Extraction.
Ultrasound Extraction is an innovative, clean, easy and quick extraction technique that makes it possible to extract active ingredients from plants and medicinal herbs in particular and to produce high-quality phytoextracts, exploiting exclusively the mechanical action exerted by the cavitation effect produced by sound waves.
The Alcohol-Free Mother Tincture of Pilosella is obtained by hydroglyceric maceration of Raw Propolis, always with a 1:10 ratio, and is an innovative type of Mother Tinctures, which, having been obtained through the ultrasound process, makes it better from several points of view.
At Vonderweid, thanks to our twenty years of experience in the field of Food Supplements and after a long research and development process in our laboratories for the production of Alcohol-Free Mother Tinctures, we managed to obtain a product with the desired characteristics.
Our alcohol-free mother tinctures are classified as Food Supplements and are regularly notified to the Ministry of Health.
Alcohol-Free Propolis: properties and indications
The Alcohol-Free Mother Tincture of Propolis, o Propolis Glyceric Macerate, it is a natural remedy to which an aAntibacterial, Antibiotic, Antimicrobial and Antiviral activity thanks to the synergistic effect of the substances it contains, which are estimated to number more than 300. This is why it is used as a natural remedy for the Immune System.
It is recommended to supplement the normal diet with the use of 20 drops dissolved in a glass of water 2/3 times a day
