Brett D. Bannon wrote:
>     Reading an alternative medicine book, I discovered that they
>recommended chewing fresh beeswax to help with allergies related to
>pollen.
>     I have observed bees collecting pollen from Koshia and Pigweed.  Has
>anyone observed bees collecting from Ragweed.
>     Has anyone had experience with this remedy and any results.
 
Honeycomb is recommended in the health food trade for either asthma or
hay-fever victims.  I have a customer for raw honey (straight from the
settling tank after extraction with lots of pollen still floating in it) who
claims she does not suffer the allergies she previously did.
 
One customer buys honey in defiance of her naturopath's advice that honey
depresses the immune system.
 
For my own part I note that since I started getting stung on a regular basis
by bees I do not have hay-fever.
 
However I leave medical diagnosis and treatment to a person's own medical
adviser, be it  conventional or alternative medicine.
 
Betty McAdam
HOG BAY APIARY
Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island
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