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The Healing Power of Pollen

Chapter Two: Colds and Flu'

‘The bee is more honoured than other animals, not because she labours, but because she labours for others.’ – St John Chrysostom, in about the year 383.

One sometimes wonders if the only people who have not got a usual remedy for colds are those who work at the British Government’s Cold Research Centre on Salisbury Plan! Professor Osmanagic has, among others, shown how effective is another bee-gathered product, the resin called propolis, in preventing and treating influenza and other infections, and all producers of pollen products are able to show me sheaves of unsolicited letters from those who have either prevented colds during an epidemic or been cured of their infections in record time through their daily pollen.

The scientist rightly requires clinical trials and it must be admitted at once that there is plenty of scope for more work and more test that have been carried out so far are really very exciting in their excellent results.

No one is claming a miraculous freedom from cold and influenza or a complete cure within hours. The most that the average sufferer desires is that he be well enough to continue work and not to be a burden to himself and to others as he suffers. A wave of ‘flu enveloped Sweden between February and May 1967 which is when a heavy industrial company in Sweden, worried about absence through illness, decided to experiment with Fluaxin which is a mixture of aspirin and pollen extract produced by Cernelle containing in each tablet 110 milligrams of pollen extract and 100 milligrams of aspirin.

By the end of May 510 employees had been given a total of 908 packets containing 5,448 Fluaxin tablets. Of these only nine succumbed to influenza, six reported sick after one packet of tablets, two after two packets and only one after five packets. The conclusion of Doctor Klapsche, received the impression that Fluaxin was a thoroughly useful agent in influenza prevention and therapy. The intake of the tablets enabled 98 per cent of their employees who suffered from influenza to continue working in heavy industry, avoiding the necessity of them taking time off because of sickness, therefore the results appear to be quite remarkable. The aspirin would be included for its beneficial effect on headache and temperature. It certainly has no effect on the actual influenza.

Interferon

Interferon it the anti-viral substance produced naturally in the body to counter infections. It is possible that in the future some of the most dramatic forward steps in the control of disease will be accomplished by being able to either stimulate the body to produce, or to provide the body with, interferon as a treatment at times of exposure or during infectious illness.

Scientists engaged in work on Interferon exchange their information through the Interferon Scientific Memorand. In April 1976 the two Yugoslavs Filipic and Likar, of The Medical Faculty of the Institute of Microbiology in Ljubljana published a paper called Inhibitory Effect of Propolis and Royal Jelly on some Viruses in which they began: ‘Propolis, royal jelly, pollen and honey are natural products of bees. They have a variety of effects: biological, physiological and anti-microbial. For medicine the anti-microbial effect is of some interest. It is known from clinical experiences that they are active against bacteria, yeast and fungi. In our experiments we made an attempt to determine their activity against viruses pathogenic for man.’

They went on to use influenza virus A2 and Vaccinia virus, which is the one responsible for smallpox. They discovered that the multiplication of the influenza virus was much reduced by a successful result. But in the case of the smallpox virus the propolis alone was enough and the royal jelly had no effect.

Another very important finding was that the royal jelly, to be effective, had to be natural and not chemically treated or dried. Many of us would have expected this to be so through the knowledge that there are many enzymes present which would be destroyed after such treatment. I have personally investigated the production methods of two of the main producers of royal jelly health products, which are Ortis of Belgium and Melbrosin in Austria. They both go to tremendous length to ensure that the royal jelly that they use is gathered from young larvae when it is most potent, and it is stored under ideal conditions before incorporation into the products.

Complex of Substances

Filipic and Likar believe that it is possible that there is not only one active substance, but a whole complex of substances which exert their full physiological and anti-viral effects only when in a proper mixture. When this happens there is an inhibition or a prevention of infection.

This sounds a warning against those scientists who, as soon as they discover a beneficial effect, seek to try and isolate the active principle and make a tablet out of it. We are coming to realize more and more that even the apparently useless part of food, for example the bran part of wheat, can be beneficial to mankind, who in the course of evolution has grown up with the whole of nature and not just refined and isolated parts of it.

The often-repeated argument that man is nothing but a mixture of chemicals anyway so why worry about adding a few more is shallow and does not stand close examination. Yes, of course, we are a mixture of chemicals, but those chemicals are produced in forms, which constitute the basic building blocks of nature. We are far better off if we feed and treat our bodies with natural substances that are harmoniously balanced with nature as these are far less likely to produce undesirable side-effects.

Of course, one must not decry the magnificent advances in medicine and in the use of quite artificial materials to control disease, but in fifty years time I believe that very many of these ‘cures’ will be looked upon as useful stop-gaps in Man’s medical progress and that many more natural substances will have replaced most of the synthetic pharmaceuticals.

The success of the experiments on heavy industry workers lead to further trials to establish the effectiveness of the Cernelle pollen preparations on upper respiratory infections in general. Dr. John Glomme, of the University of Oslo, brought together the work of several scientists over a period of six years to try and see exactly what effects the Cernelle pollen tablets have on such diseases. He found that this was very difficult because all the workers had adopted rather different approaches and anyway it is not at all easy to prove that you would have had a cold if you had not taken a certain preventative treatment! But he concluded that statistically there was overall a reduction in the amount of sick leave and in visits to the doctor for these diseases, together with general increase in the feeling of well-being coupled with less pronounced symptoms and a shorter duration of illness which made the taking of the pollen thoroughly worthwhile.

He believed that all of these results could be put down to the general strengthening effect of taking pollen.

Finally, if you have a cold, or indeed any infection or wound, there are great drains on the body’s reserves of Vitamin C. Indeed, the smoking of a single cigarette is said to use up 30 mg of Vitamin C which is half as much as many authorities believe people need in a single day. So, if you smoke you may well need extra vitamin C and you certainly will if you have a cold or other infection or injury.

So, take a course of pollen preferably, but not necessarily with royal jelly, every winter and the chances are that you will avoid serious colds and respiration infections even if those around you are suffering from the seasonal sniffles.

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