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Report on the effect of echinacea and propolis.

Posted in UFOs, beekeeping, embroidery, knitting, self sufficiency, tagged , , , , , , on January 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »

If you remember I said that I was going down with apparent flu just before Xmas and I was going to take propolis and echinacea. Rather amazingly I got better and wasnt ill over Xmas! In fact this is the first time I have been well when everyone else around me has been down with [...]

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The acid test!

Posted in beekeeping, self sufficiency, spinning, tagged , , , , , on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Now this is the acid test for the propolis. All around me everyone seems to have the flu. It happens every year. I am due to start my leave tomorrow for Xmas. Every year, without fail I get flu the minute I start my leave so that I am poorly all over Xmas. For the [...]

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Honey Show and propolis

Posted in Home brewing, beekeeping, self sufficiency, tagged , , , , , , , on November 1, 2008 | 11 Comments »

I went to the National Honey Show yesterday and really enjoyed it. I didn’t manange to get to all the things I wanted because I overslept, but I still found it very worthwhile. I went to a workshop on making wax flowers…see my effort. Now to be honest with you I am busy enough as [...]

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Propolis

Posted in beekeeping, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on September 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I read a very interesting book a couple of months ago about the health benefits of propolis. I am usually slightly skeptical about amazing health claims but these are well researched. The problem with propolis is you can’t patent it, so the drug companies are not interested….and it’s the drug companies that fund the vast majority [...]

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