Honeycombs are quite valuable and useful product. Thanks to special glands, honey bees produce wax, from which they later build honeycombs. In a way, it is a special packaging of honey. You can eat honey right along with a honeycomb, getting additional nutrients and vitamins in this way.
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The newly built honeycomb in a light shade is composed exclusively of wax. Gradually the quality of the honeycomb changes, it all depends on the purposes for which the bees are going to use them. A worker bee lives for about 40 days.
The honeycomb, in which the fruit was born, quickly darken (grow old). As a result, after each new generation of bees, empty cocoons from larvae appear in the cells. Due to such layering of deposits, the volume, shape and mass of the honeycomb, the thickness of the cells change.
The honeycombs themselves are hexagonal wax cells that bees build for storing pollen or honey, placing larvae in them. Directly the size of the cells depends on the purpose of the honeycomb for drones or bees, as well as on their breed. Bees, as some of the best natural architects, have created a hexagonal honeycomb that can accommodate a large volume at low construction costs.
Beeswax is an irreplaceable building material for honeycombs. These insects do not accept other materials. In the family, honeycombs are used to process and place nectar during the period of its collection, to seal stocks and store them.
Useful properties of honeycomb
Honeycombs, like most bee products, are indispensable in the treatment of a variety of respiratory diseases. It is honeycomb wax that has the most useful and healing properties. Collect it after the main pumping out of honey. Regular chewing of such honeycomb has a beneficial effect on the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract. In addition, the immune system is developed against infectious diseases.
Honeycomb honey has medicinal qualities, chemical composition, aroma and taste inherent to a botanical plant variety.
Beeswax is often used in the manufacture of cosmetic creams, plasters and ointments. Also wax is used in the treatment of tuberculosis. It contains a variety of trace elements, minerals and vitamins. Due to its many beneficial properties, it is used to create compresses, whitening and nourishing masks.
Dentistry experts recommend systematically chewing honeycombs as a preventive measure for diseases such as periodontal disease. In the process of chewing, salivation is greatly enhanced, which is very beneficial for the digestive system.
To strengthen the immune system, you need to chew beeswax 2-3 times a day for 7-10 minutes. For people with allergies, this product may not be suitable.
