What diseases can propolis treat?
As a member of bee products family, propolis has a long history in the history of human health care. In ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Rome, there were various records about propolis treating knife wounds, arrow wounds, cuts, neuralgia and skin diseases. In recent years, during the British invasion of South Africa, military doctors used propolis mixed with vaseline as external medicine after surgery. 1909, Aleksandrov published a paper "Propolis is Medicine", describing the effect of treating corns with propolis. After 1950s, propolis, as a natural medicine, attracted people's attention again. With the gradual deepening of people's research on the composition, characteristics, pharmacology, health care efficacy and deep processing of propolis, various drugs and health care products based on propolis have come out continuously, and propolis has also penetrated into people's daily life. Clinical practice at home and abroad has proved that propolis can be used to treat many diseases, such as cold, pharyngolaryngitis, bronchial asthma, dental caries, oral ulcer, halitosis, periodontitis, rhinitis, otitis, gastritis, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, colitis, infectious hepatitis, polyp, prostatitis, psoriasis, eczema, dermatitis, itchy skin, beriberi, corns, chilblain and warts.