Health Benefits and Uses of Beeswax in Medicine

Qian, Jingjing and Chen, Ge and Bei, Yang and Qi, Zexiu and Cianciosi, Danila and Armas Diaz, Yasmany and Cassotta, Manuela and Álvarez-Suárez, José M. and Battino, Maurizio and Giampieri, Francesca UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, manucassotta@gmail.com, UNSPECIFIED, maurizio.battino@uneatlantico.es, francesca.giampieri@uneatlantico.es (2025) Health Benefits and Uses of Beeswax in Medicine. In: Bee Products – Chemical and Biological Properties. Springer, Cham, pp. 505-519. ISBN 978-3-031-89049-9

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Abstract

Beeswax (BW) is the substance that forms the structure of a honeycomb, made by bees to store honey. Compared with honey and propolis, beeswax as a by-product possesses several favorable therapeutic properties and is of great interest to the scientific community. In this chapter, the various health benefits of beeswax and its applications are systematically introduced, including mainly the protection of skin disease, wound healing, oxidative damage, antimicrobial activities, and other health applications, with the aim to make more common the use of this by-product for human health. Beeswax, due to its beneficial components and special structural properties, could even assist in preventing and treating some types of cancers or some metabolic diseases, such as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Therefore, this chapter aims to update the major scientific works that have highlighted the various health benefits exerted by beeswax in different types of pathological conditions.

Item Type: Book Section
Subjects: Subjects > Nutrition
Divisions: Europe University of Atlantic > Research > Scientific Production
Depositing User: Sr Bibliotecario
Date Deposited: 29 May 2025 11:23
Last Modified: 29 May 2025 11:23
URI: http://repositorio.funiber.org/id/eprint/17803

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