Bee milk, also known as royal jelly, is a liquid made from the secretion of the throat gland of worker bees, such as the Chinese honeybee, mixed with honey. It is the special food of the young queen bee in the bee colony, hence its name "royal jelly". Its composition varies according to the growth stage of the larvae. Royal jelly mainly contains five types of sugars, including fructose, glucose, sucrose, and ribose.
1. Nutritional composition
Royal jelly contains various highly active protein substances, such as insulin-like peptides, active peptides, and r-globulin, which have the effects of delaying aging, antibacterial, antiviral, and lowering blood sugar.
Royal jelly contains a variety of vitamins, with the highest content of vitamin B. It has significant effects on fatigue, tiredness, sleep disorders, muscle spasms, and neuralgia. It also contains vitamin B2, vitamin B6, vitamin A, vitamin E, etc.
Royal jelly contains acetylcholine, an important component of the active substances in royal jelly. It is the pillar of memory and information transmission and plays an important role in improving brain power, thinking, and memory.
Royal jelly contains a special unsaturated fatty acid called 10-hydroxy-2-decenoic acid, which has the functions of anti-radiation, inhibition, and killing of cancer cells, and can prolong the survival time of cancer patients.
Royal jelly contains trace amounts of steroid hormones, mainly 17-ketosteroid, 17-hydroxycholesterol, adrenaline, etc., which play an important role in the comprehensive syndrome of menopause, neurogenic disorders, and endocrine and metabolic disorders.
Royal jelly contains a certain amount of phosphate compounds, which can improve physical weakness and have auxiliary therapeutic effects on diseases such as arteriosclerosis, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, liver disease, and gastric ptosis.
Royal jelly contains about 3% of the mysterious substance "R", which is the essence of the active substances in royal jelly and is still to be determined and revealed.
2. Medicinal properties and uses
Royal jelly has a wide range of biological effects. It can nourish and strengthen the human body, increase appetite, enhance digestion, improve sleep, promote growth and development, enhance the body's resistance to diseases, and treat various diseases, including post-illness weakness, malnutrition in children, physical decline in the elderly, hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis, infectious hepatitis, duodenal ulcers, etc. It is particularly effective for elderly, chronic, and debilitated diseases. Its main functions are as follows:
1. Increase appetite, promote metabolism, increase body weight, prevent aging, and prolong life.
2. Reduce the death rate or prolong the time of death of animals in harsh environments (starvation, fatigue, high heat, cold, hypoxia, poisoning, infection, radiation, etc.).
3. Promote gonadal function and have adrenal cortex hormone-like effects.
4. Stimulate hematopoietic function, increasing red blood cells, platelets, and hemoglobin.
5. Protect the liver, inhibit bacteria, have anti-inflammatory effects, promote the healing of infected wounds, and have anti-cancer effects.
Biochemical experiments have shown that royal jelly can enhance resistance and promote growth, affect endocrine function, affect the circulatory system, affect hematopoietic organs, affect blood sugar, have anti-cancer effects, have antibacterial effects, and have other effects.
