Efficacy of Bee-gathered Pollen, Complex of Natural Nutriments

The bee-gathered pollen is shapeless crystal material containing honey and pollen that are collected by the bees from flowers of the plants and then mixed with different kinds of secretion and saliva from the secretion gland of the bees. It contains all kinds of nutriments found in pollen in general, and it is of higher nutritional value than ordinary pollen.

It is a complex of different kinds of nutritional substances needed by the organic body for metabolism, including the three kinds of essential nutriments of sugar, protein and fat, 20 kinds of amino acids, 15 kinds of vitamins, 30 kinds of mineral matters, microelements, unsaturated fatty acids, organic acids, polyphenol, flavone derivatives, polysaccharide, different kinds of enzymes, nucleic acids, vegetable hormone. As it has all kinds of essential nutriments it is acknowledged as "ideal complex of natural nutriments" and "all-inclusive storage of nutriments."

Koryo Internal Medicine Department No. 2 of the Pyongyang Medical College of Kim Il Sung University has made a successful research into the work of applying the bee-gathered pollen in treatment and prevention of illnesses. According to experiments done to the pharmacological effect of the bee-gathered pollen, the bee-gathered pollen considerably increased the fallen unexceptional resistivity of the experimental animals whose immunity had been inhibited, and improved the cellular and humoral immune functions markedly. These effects were found little different from those of insam which is known as king of medicinal herbs. The experiments also turned out that the bee-gathered pollen has distinctive anti-oxidant and anti-stress effects.

On the basis of the research results, clinical studies have been conducted in an effort to apply the bee-gathered pollen to clinical treatment, and this process has confirmed the fact that the bee-gathered pollen is amazingly effective in treating a good many kinds of illnesses including autonomic imbalance.

At present the department is engaged in the study of how to apply the bee-gathered pollen to clinical treatment of various diseases while making deep study into how to boost the medicinal efficacy of the bee-gathered pollen by way of processing and standardizing the relevant products.