Beekeeping - Medicinal uses of Beekeeping Products

Medicinal uses of Beekeeping Products

Besides important topics referred to the change of queenbees at the end of the season, the bees feeding and the National Quality Certification System, in this issue we prioritize the importance of topics referred to the use of Honey, Pollen and Propolis for the human health.
The doctors Stefan Stângaciu from Rumania and Hugo Aguirre of Santa Fe province (Argentina) each contribute with articles. Both advances of their respective dissertations during the last national meeting in Azul, Buenos Aires province, Argentina.

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Main titles of the edition # 43of ESPACIO APICOLA,
May - July of 2000.
Table of contents

Editorial: Care that the Tree doesn't hide us the forest

Change of Queen Bees at the End of the Season

APITHERAPY against Liver Cirrhosis

Bees Feeding

Quality like Tool of Competitiveness

Pollen and Apitherapy

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EDITORIAL
CARE THAT THE TREE DOESN'T HIDE US THE FOREST
At first, our editorial team, wants to thank the active and numerous participation of companies and beekeepers, national and foreigners, in the recent Api-Expo San Francisco 2000.-
In a special way we want to distinguish, in these humble pages, to those professionals and beekeepers that became present in the Argentine Beekeeping Regions Meeting, presenting their respective posters.
The "globalization", so much mentioned at this time, are impose to us as an unique, irreversible and unavoidable phenomenon. It has caused several reactions in different fields.
In social, economic and political terms, the dissent generated in the middle and low class sectors is for all acquaintance. These sectors are forbidden to participate in decision levels, falsely pleased by an explosive consume fever to which every time consents less.
It's in a cultural and productive field where they seem to be given clear signs of transformations.
In front of the uniformity outlined from a "supermarket" perspective, the tendencies in productive sectors and consumers associations, particularly referred to the foods, it points to the distinction, differentiation and quality certification of the products before to the mere scale production of the same ones.
Likewise, in front of a despersonalized culture proposed from big monopolies of information, different social sectors advance toward communities with which feel identified and in which find participation spaces.
These two lines inspire us: Diversity valuation to propitiate the system inclusion of all the people and to generate participation spaces, as the �Fair and Beekeeping Meeting of the Center of the Republic� with those which to identify us.
In juicy articles of the present edition we hope to satisfy your spectatives and you finds your place in this singular Bekeeping Space ("Espacio Apícola"). Cordially

The Director
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Queenbees Change at the End of the Season

Daniel Massello is a grateful Queenbees breeder originating of Buenos Aires province. He resided, long time ago, in Calchaquí in the North of Santa Fe province.
He began a Queenbreeder, like other important breeders of the country, with Mr. Jacinto Naveiro, from the INTA (National Institute of Agricultural Technology) of "25 de Mayo", a city in Buenos Aires province.
In these years he has dedicated his practice and knowledge to the improvement and to turn on italian the European bees (Creole) that prevails in the whole center-north of the country.
His effort, beside of many other bold beekeepers, it contributed to decrease the vestiges of the disastrous invasion of africanized bees of 70 decade significantly.
His contribution, in this article, is very important. Not only for beekeepers of this region of the country, also for many transhumant beekeepers that ignore the behavior and handling practice in areas where the Creole bee prevails, and beekeepers of the south of Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay where this European bee also exists and where africanized bees has bigger incidence.
The Article includes the following topics:
- METHODS AND PURPOSES
- QUEENS CHANGES
- HOW TO CHANGE QUEENS
- REDRAWING QUEENS

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APITHERAPY against Liver Cirrhosis

Dr. Stefan Stângaciu (apither@gmb.ro, apitherapy.com), of Rumania, he is current president of the German Association of Apitherapy, member of the American Association of Apitherapy and responsible of the Apitherapy database of the International Federation of Beekeepers APIMONDIA. He lectured for the first time in Argentina, invited by our magazine, in the last Api-Expo San Francisco'98.
This year he visited Argentina again to lecture in the National Honey-Expo in "Azul" (Buenos Aires province).
In advance of his presence in our country and adding a contribution more already to those published, we present his article �Apitherapy against Liver Cirrhosis�, translated by Fernando Esteban from the original in English, as a contribution to diffuse the beekeeping products kindnes and to contribute to the beekeeper's families health.

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Bees Feeding

Ricardo Prieto. Queen Breeder of Junín, Buenos Aires province, writes:

Contents of his dissertation in the recent "8th Fair and Beekeeping Meeting of the Center of the Republic", on Sunday 7 of May in San Francisco, Córdoba, Argentina.
Next to take place 25 years of "Los Alamos", his beekeeping farm, Ricardo Miguel Prieto came closer to San Francisco once again to share his bold and experienced knowledge.
His first visit to this fair was when in 1994 we outline as thematic central the �Queen bees breeding�, then he also had an active participation when in 1996 we outline in the same forum the �Behives Feeding and development (incentivation)�.
In this opportunity we invite him again to modernize the concepts about bees feeding in front a lot of beekeepers (more than 300) that was caught by his simplicity, practical lesson and pleasant dissertation.
The extensive article includes the following topics:
- BEES FEEDING
- PROTEIN FEEDING
- CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF POLLEN
- PREPARATION OF THE POLLEN PATTY
- OTHER ALTERNATIVES
- THE ENERGY FEEDING
- HOW AND WITH WHICH TO FEED
- THE "STIMULANT" SYRUP FOR THE EARLY BURST

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Quality like Tool of Competitiveness

The Argentine Institute of Normalization (IRAM) had an excellent presence during the "8th Fair and Beekeeping Meeting of the Center of the Republic". The Api-Expo San Francisco 2000 was the first beekeeping meeting who invite this important institution to participate.
Last Saturday 6 of May, María del Carmen Fernández (Food and Health Department of the IRAM) lectured about the necessity of incorporating definitively in our activity, quality approaches like a fundamental tool for the competitiveness and the permanency in the beekeeping products markets in the world.
Also we give to our readers' consideration what is today the National System of Norms, Quality and Certification like back to the possibility of Certifying the quality of our productive processes.
We accompany the text of great part of her dissertation with the films that Mrs. Fernández used during the same one.
The extensive article includes the following topics:
- GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
- NORMALIZATION, ACCREDITATION AND CERTIFICATION
- NECESSARY REQUIREMENTS
- THE SYSTEM STRUCTURE (The OAA)
+ Level 1:
- NATIONAL COUNCIL OF NORMS, QUALITY AND CERTIFICATION
+ Level 2:
- NORMALIZATION ORGANISM AND
- ACCREDITACION ORGANISM
- THEIR FUNCTIONS
- NORMS ELABORATION AND EMISSION PROCESS
- ACCREDITATION PROCESS
+ ORGANISMS OF LEVEL 3:
- QUALITY SYSTEMS CERTIFICATION ORGANISMS, OF PROCESSES, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES.
- REHEARSAL LABORATORIES.
- CALIBRATION LABORATORIES.
- QUALITY SYSTEMS AUDITORS.

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Pollen and Apitherapy

Mr. Hugo Aguirre, hugoagui@sanguillermo.com.ar medical and beekeeper in San Guillermo, Santa Fe province (Argentina).
With him we share the last International Beekeeping Congress of Apimondia in Vancouver, Canada, on which made us a review of all that lived around this thematic one in this congress, in the last number 40 of �Espacio Apícola�.
We present the dissertation that he has prepared for the apitherapy meeting foreseen in the honey-expo of Azul (Buenos Aires province, Argentina).
The article, broadly documented, includes the following topics:
- POLLEN AND APITHERAPY
- GATHERING AND USE OF THE POLLEN BY THE BEEHIVE
- CROP OF POLLEN
- ANCESTRAL USES OF THE POLLEN
- CLINICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS
- MEDICINAL USE OF THE POLLEN IN:
- Stress, sportsmen, third age people, convalescent of hepatic illnesses, post-operative.
- Dysfunctions of the skin, hairy leather and fingernails.
- Dysfunctions of the humor and the behavior.
- Vision Alterations.
- Circulatory illnesses.
- Intestinal Dysfunctions.
- Liver Illnesses.
- Prostate Illnesses.
- Immune-protection.
- WAY OF POLLEN CONSUMPTION
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.-

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