Is propolis effective? It's all about you.
the history of human propolis is very long. In 300 BC, there were records of propolis in Europe. Ancient people in Greece, Rome, Egypt and other places used it to heal, reduce inflammation, and make mummies. With the development of history and the marketing of modern business, the legend of propolis has more and more "efficacy", from the traditional "antibacterial" "antiviral" to the fashionable "immune" "anti-tumor".
because most countries have strict requirements for the effectiveness and safety of pharmaceutical products, propolis can only be sold as an alternative medicine product. But its scientific research has attracted a lot of attention. Most of the effects of legends have been studied. In the past few decades, many results have been published. It is disappointing that these studies are generally animal or cell experiments, and the scale of the human experiment is not very large, and it is not thought to be enough in medicine to come to a conclusion. Worst of all, it is also "ineffective when it is time" - the results of some people's experiments are "effective", and the results of some people are "ineffective".
, however, there are good news for propolis businessmen and enthusiasts. On the one hand, these findings merely say "no proof of propolis is effective", without proving "propolis ineffective". Therefore, as long as people are willing to believe, they can be regarded as "effective". On the other hand, there are no problems found in toxicity and side effects tests. Therefore, it is still possible to "find no side effects". Of course, like any other bee forming product, it may contain a variety of allergens. If you are allergic, you need to be careful.
as many people pursuing "traditional therapies" say, the "natural products" of Propolis may contain hundreds of ingredients, and do not exclude anything that modern analytical techniques have not found. The study of modern science needs to solve two problems: first, are those functions in the legends true and reliable? Two, what is the function of these functions if they exist?
the development of science is really limited. Scientific research on propolis has been going on for decades, and now it is still a mess. This mess will continue, and I don't know when it will be untied. Before getting the evidence, it faces "rare and expensive" because "there is no evidence that it is useful" and that it is "useless" or "useful" because "no evidence shows it is useless", and it really can only be solved by "believing".