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The Healing Power of Pollen

Chapter Nine: More Uses for Pollen

‘Life is not just living, but living in health.’ –Martial A.D.90

Because pollen balances the body so effectively, it is not surprising that the many micro-nutrients present exert a beneficial effect on many illnesses and psychological states. We are only beginning to scratch the surface in our search for nature’s remedies, but without doubt man’s understanding of honey, propolis, royal jelly and pollen will continue to increase and grow in importance.

Diabetes

Dr. Rudolf Frey, who is the head physician of the Korneuburg hospital in Austria, reported on the effect of a pollen product rich in royal jelly made by Melbrosin to see if it would alleviate the problems often faced by diabetics. It was not the purpose or even a possibility of the trial that it could cure the actual diabetes. Pollen preparations are not in any way a substitute for insulin or the other substances which help diabetic people. Also the use of the preparation did not have any effect on the treatment for the condition so that it was a true supplement without any actual effect on the diabetes itself but as it turned out, with remarkable benefits in helping the control of many side effects.

Apart from an increased liability to infection, the complications of diabetes principally involve conditions of the vascular system. Dr. Frey found that the product was especially effective in the case of diabetics who were not particularly well adjusted to their treatment and showed signs of mental and physical exhaustion.

In addition difficulties with walking, decline of mental and physical powers, menstrual problems, sleeplessness, rheumatic conditions, forgetfulness and lack of concentration, circulatory disorders and chronic constipation were all included in the complaints that responded most favorably to the treatment.

Pollen and royal jelly preparations were given every morning half an hour before breakfast on an empty stomach over a period of twenty-one days. It does seem that all pollen preparations are most effective when taken this way, on a completely empty stomach. Sometimes it was found necessary to begin a second course some eight to ten days after the conclusion of the first one.

Dr. Frey gave some interesting case histories of some of his patients. For example one patient, who was 48 years old, had suffered from diabetes since he was 18 and had taken daily injections of sixty units of insulin for thirty years. He had perfectly adjusted to his insulin and his diet and was able to work as a lorry driver. However, he had suffered for eight months from intermittent claudication, which meant that he could not walk more than fifty yards without experiencing violent cramp in the calves of his legs forcing him to stop. Preparations were given to improve the supply of blood to the legs and to help the nervous system but his condition was only slightly improved by these normal therapeutic measures. Nevertheless, after two courses of a treatment with the Melbrosin product the patient felt much better, his general feeling of depression gave way to a feeling of pleasure, the pain in the calves lessened and at last the patient was able to walk again without the occurrence of cramps.

Another patient, a 35-year-old housewife and mother of two children, had suffered from diabetes for only two years, but had adjusted to the condition very well and was taking twenty units of insulin daily. But two children and the care of the house were a great strain, especially to a diabetic, and she was mentally and physically exhausted, complained of forgetfulness and sleeplessness and in the last months was no longer able to carry out her household duties. She was given sedatives and then tonics but there was no noticeable improvement. After two courses of pollen and royal jelly treatment she was able to sleep normally once more, her tiredness had disappeared very rapidly and she was once again able to perform her usual duties as a happy housewife and fond mother.

Diabetes sometimes begins in old age. This was the case of a 71-year old gentleman who had hardening of the arteries and had complained of great thirst for more than a year.

An examination showed that he was suffering from mild diabetes, which was controllable by attention to the diet. But as time went past he began to suffer from forgetfulness which rapidly increased in degree and he also experienced a pronounced failing of his powers of concentration. Since he had always been a person used to brain-work this sudden diminution of his mental powers brought him to the verge of a nervous breakdown, all the more because the medicines prescribed by his doctor, and on which he had based his hopes, did not help him in the least. A course of injections was also tried and this had no result. Indeed, it was not until the patient had taken two courses of pollen and royal jelly treatment that he began to regain his strength and to lose his strong tendency towards forgetfulness. The result was that he could once again concentrate and continue to enjoy life as he had done before.

A similar case was a 35-year-old sales manager in a fashion store who found himself unable to work because of his loss of concentration and forgetfulness resulting from his diabetic condition. Here again a six weeks treatment with pollen and royal jelly restored him to his usual active self.

Dr. Frey concluded that from his experience of these and many other cases a good preparation of pollen and royal jelly was a completely harmless natural remedy without any allergic after-effects. He believed that the high concentration of royal jelly combined with pollen with their content of trace elements and glutamic acid (an important substance with regard to the metabolism of the nucleus) combined together to achieve very good results in condition with the various disorders which often follow diabetes. He fully justified their use and recommended administration as a general treatment.

Stress, Anxiety and Depression

Words such as stress, anxiety and depression mean different things to different people. To the psychiatrist they represent conditions that are often serious, requiring much medical patience and skill to overcome. We have seen that, under medical supervision, certain pollen products have indeed been shown to be effective in helping patients with quite distressing mental conditions.

How pollen does this is not at all clear. Some researchers believe that pollen and royal jelly exert a mutually beneficial effect upon each other thus giving results better than either do individually, but the work of Cernelle in Sweden has produced excellent results without royal jelly.

There may be quite wide variations in the individual response to the treatment with pollen and, of course, pollens do differ quite considerably in their individual content of substances, so it is quite possible that in certain cases that which is lacking in a particular pollen can be made up for in the royal jelly. We shall have to wait and see the answer to these and many more questions regarding pollen but one thing is quite clear. Pollen and royal jelly are both safe to take and for a lot of people they help strengthen the body, guard against infection and lift the shadows of anxiety and depression.

We are all over-stressed at some time or other, we all have moments of anxiety, indeed, of desperation, and these often lead us to times of depression when those closest to us have to make allowances for our behavior.

It is not at all that surprising that this inability to cope with the normal problems of life could well be due to dietary deficiencies perhaps in those trace elements which are required in incredibly small quantities by our bodies. The latest research into trace elements has shown that chromium, tin, vanadium, fluorine, silicon and nickel are all necessary for higher animals, and we are certainly among those.

Often the dietary concentrations required are less than one part in a million. Cadmium, lead, zinc and selenium which can be highly toxic in great amounts nevertheless have, in minute doses, a role to play in maintaining our bodies in good order. It may be that many of those conditions including nervous disorders where pollen seems so effective are due to the absorption phenomenon allowing the micro-nutrients in pollen to be absorbed when they are failing to be taken in from normal foods.

The conclusion is clear and straightforward. When life, people and events begin to get on top of you, try a two month course of pollen therapy and see if it works as well for you as it has for many of the cases that are described in this book. You may not be able to solve life’s problems, but at least you will be able to deal with them.

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