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"Instead, they focused like honeybees circling a picnic cake on products for what they called chronic disorders. These were drugs that did not cure but "managed" diseases as patients took them once a day for the rest of their lives. It was investors who drove the companies' push to medicate America on a daily basis. Wall Street analysts grilled the pharmaceutical executives about their marketing campaigns during conference calls held every three months. Were they hiring more sales reps? When would that new advertising campaign that executives had promised begin?" - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Other Uses Neem oil is used as a pesticide and fungicide that kills bacteria and over 200 types of insects and fungi but is harmless to honeybees and vertebraes. The leaves can be placed in grain bins, beds, books, cupboards, suitcases, and closets to repel bugs. The dried plant can be burned as a fumigating incense. In cosmetics neem acts a preservative, as well as benefiting many skin conditions. The seeds of neem are being investigated as a possible male and female contraceptive. Neem wood is used in woodworking. A gum that exudes from the bark is used to dye silk." - Brigitte Mars, A.H.G., The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine: The Ultimate Multidisciplinary Reference to the Amazing Realm of Healing Plants, in a Quick-study, One-stop Guide (Get the book.)

"INSECT ALLERGY There are only a few stinging insects in the United States that can cause an allergic reaction: honeybees, hornets, yel-lowjackets, bumblebees, wasps, and ants. Insects of the group known as hymenoptera, which includes bees, wasps, hornets, and ants, cause an allergic reaction in 5 out of 1,000 people. This reaction is known as an insect venom allergy, and it can be dangerous, even life threatening. The yellow jacket and honeybee are the cause of most allergic reactions to insects." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Smith Short duration studies are also used for environmental evaluations Freese and Schubert "Feeding studies designed to detect potential effects of GE pesticidal proteins on non-target insects such as honeybees are often too short to give meaningful results, for instance nine days.103 However, the EPA often accepts such inadequate studies as substantiating the hypothesis that GE pesticidal proteins are not harmful to insects at the tested doses.104 Hilbeck and Meier105 recommend full life-cycle testing to detect sub-lethal and long-term effects." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"The bluish purple flowers produce nectar throughout the day and attract hummingbirds, butterflies, and honeybees. The plant prefers moist conditions in open woods and prairies and along lakes, streams, and ditches. ASHWAGANDHA Botanical Name Withania somnifera Family Solanaceae (Nightshade Family) Etymology The common name translates from the Sanskrit ashva, "horse," and gandha, "smells like," which alludes to the virility of a horse. The species name, somnifera, indicates that the herb is a soporific agent." - Brigitte Mars, A.H.G., The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine: The Ultimate Multidisciplinary Reference to the Amazing Realm of Healing Plants, in a Quick-study, One-stop Guide (Get the book.)

"Beetles, butterflies, and honeybees are part of coevolved "pollinator complexes" that make sure each flowering species gets exactly the attention it needs. Imagine having to hire human laborers to do this work with Q-tips, in the largest agricultural jobs program ever conceived. We would fail abysmally. "Millions of years of coevolution have finely tuned the relations between particular plants and their special pollinators," says biologist Edward O. Wilson (Buchmann and Nabhan 1997). But today, populations of wild pollinators are declining nearly everywhere on earth." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"The leaves contain a chemical compound (terpenoid) that acts as a pheromone to attract bees, hence the name melissa, the Greek name for honeybees. Commercial production occurs in various parts of southern, central and eastern Europe. Parts used Fresh or dried leaves. Cultivation & harvesting Plants grow easily from seeds or cuttings and are seen in almost every herb garden around the world. Fresh leaves are picked for culinary use and to add colour to cocktails." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.)

"Would you have ever guessed that this delicious food made by honeybees is actually one of mankind's oldest-known medicines? Dating as far back as 5,000 years, honey has been successfully used to treat burns, coughs and ulcers. Hippocrates, the Greek physician, also praised honey's healing powers and came up with many honey-based treatments for ailments such as skin disorders, ulcers and sores. In World War I, German physicians used a mixture of honey and cod liver oil to treat gunshot wounds." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Propolis: Another useful natural antiseptic, propolis is a resin collected by honeybees to keep the hive free from germs. The tincture makes an effective mouthwash and can be mixed with myrrh (see herbal medicines) or used by itself to treat sore throat. Mix one-third teaspoon of propolis tincture in one cup of warm water and gargle three times daily. Antiviral and Anti-inflammatory Herbal Medicines In this section, I discuss herbs that treat viral infection and lower inflammation." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"The members of insect societies communicate with each other through the exchange of food, by means of various chemical substances, by touch, and in a variety of other ways, the most remarkable being the famous dance of honeybees by means of which returned foragers indicate to others where food can be found.5 These societies have striking self-organizing properties. honeybees, for example, maintain the temperature of their nest with remarkable constancy; from spring to autumn the interior temperature is almost always between Figure 13.2 A colony of the siphonophoran Nanomia cara." - Rupert Sheldrake, The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature (Get the book.)

"Both hemispheres also had domesticated species of birds and small mammals—the turkey, guinea pig, and Muscovy duck very locally and the dog more widely in the Americas; chickens, geese, ducks, cats, dogs, rabbits, honeybees, silkworms, and some others in Eurasia. But the significance of all those species of small domestic animals was trivial compared with that of the big ones. Eurasia and the Americas also differed with respect to plant food production, though the disparity here was less marked than for animal food production. In 1492 agriculture was widespread in Eurasia." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.)

"Textures and flavor are dependent "^Hfc*-^ on which flowers the honeybees HHHpl^. choose. Typical choices include V^llPa^' heather, alfalfa, clover, and the \r\ acacia flower. Less common but well-known flowers that confer their own special taste characteristics on the honey include thyme and lavender. In addition to honey, bees produce bee pollen, propolis, and royal jelly. These products concentrate many phytochemicals with powerful health-promoting activity. Yet, for the most part, these foods have been underappreciated and underutilized in North America." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.)

"Medicinal plants will tend to be more abundant than are plants not used medicinally; they will be perennials, not annuals; they will be more widespread than others; they will be long-lived (in particular, they will be trees); and they will tend to be visible and showy, with distinctive dowers, leaves, foliage, or smell—the kinds of plants that we put in (lower gardens and that tend to attract animals that collect nectar (hummingbirds, honeybees, butterflies)." - Amarjit S. Basra, Handbook of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

"A rather coarse low herb, it is always popular because of this pleasant fragrance and is the special joy of honeybees, which are forever delving into its small white or yellowish flowers. An important herb in the monastic apothecary gardens, balm has a venerable history of use as both a healing herb and as part of a drink to ensure longevity. Balm / Nutritional Value Per 100 g Edible Portion Seed Seed Protein 29.3 e Eat 11.5 s Culinary Uses Balm has a lemony scent and imparts a lemon-mint, honey-sweet flavor to salads, salad dressings, iced tea, and fruit drinks." - Dianne Onstad, Whole Foods Companion: A Guide For Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and lovers of natural foods (Get the book.)

"BVT is the application of honeybees to the human skin to produce a bee sting. The venom contained in the sting contains certain elements that render it useful in stimulating the body's own curative powers. When practiced correctly, bee venom treatment can produce nearly miraculous results. Which Bees Are Best? Understanding the Difference in Species What sorts of bees are used in apitherapy? Are all honeybees the same?" - Celeste Pepe, Lisa Hammond, Reversing Multiple Sclerosis: 9 Effective Steps to Recover Your Health (Get the book.)

"Honeybees wax pollen with honey to form carryable pellets, and allergy-causing substances are neutralized. Pollen stimulates the production of Interferon fighting viral infections, and two antibiotic compounds that are fast-acting bacteriostatic and antibiotic sterilizers killing bacteria on contact, microbes of salmonella (typhoid types), Escherichia coli, and colibaccillus." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.)

"Are all honeybees the same? There are several different kinds of honeybees, from our familiar black and yellow friends buzzing cheerfully about in our flower gardens to honey producers native to almost all parts of the world. There are the infamous "killer bees," supposedly unstoppable and moving farther into the North American continent each year. Let's take a moment to discuss these "killer" bees, Apis mellifera L. scutellata (Lepetelier). The Africanized honeybee (AHB) is closely related to the common European Honeybee (EHB). According to research conducted by the U.S." - Celeste Pepe, Lisa Hammond, Reversing Multiple Sclerosis: 9 Effective Steps to Recover Your Health (Get the book.)

"Pollination is primarily done by domestic honeybees. The cultivated species grown in the northern United States and southern Canada bears a larger berry than the European cranberry or southern cranberry, which are the wild species native to the eastern United States. The cranberry has often been referred to as the "crane berry" or "bounce berry," since the cranberry's shrub's pale pink blossom often resemble the head of cranes that haunt the cranberry bogs or the ripe berry can bounce. HISTORY The North American cranberry has an extensive and celebrated history." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.) "Honeybees make possible the reproduction of more than 80 percent of the world's grains, fruits, vegetables, and legumes. The remaining male pollen is collected and brought to the hive, where the bees add enzymes and nectar to the pollen. Bee pollen is comprised of tiny, golden yellow to dark brown granules that have a delicate flavor and aroma that varies according to the plant pollen it was made from and is used as a nutritive tonic as well as to desensitize seasonal allergies." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.)

"Addressing this same issue in a somewhat different way, Kartesz characterized a number of taxa that commonly attract butterflies, honeybees, or hummingbirds. Combining the three categories, 14 percent of drug plants attract these seekers of nectar, whereas only 4 percent of the nondrug plants do (x2 = 498.6, p - 0.0000). These animals are commonly found on sweet-smelling plants with large or vivid flowers and ample nectaries, or with high apparency. Medicinal plants tend to be attractors. Some complex interactions are occurring here; these are not discrete categories." - Amarjit S. Basra, Handbook of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

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