Abstract
Bee pollen is a valuable apitherapeutic product greatly appreciated by the natural medicine because of its potential medical and nutritional applications. It demonstrates a series of actions such as antifungal, antimicrobial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, hepatoprotective, anticancer immunostimulating, and local analgesic. Its radical scavenging potential has also been reported. Beneficial properties of bee pollen and the validity for their therapeutic use in various pathological condition have been discussed in this study and with the currently known mechanisms, by which bee pollen modulates burn wound healing process.
Highlights
Apitherapeutics are natural agents which contain groups of chemical compounds with approved action and range of activity
Bee pollen is used in the apitherapeutic treatment as it demonstrates a series of actions such as antifungal, antimicrobial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, immunostimulating, and local analgesic and facilitates the granulation process of the burn wound healing [3, 4]
Bee pollen is a raw material from which bees produce bee bread
Summary
Apitherapeutics are natural agents which contain groups of chemical compounds with approved action and range of activity. Bee pollen is a raw material from which bees produce bee bread They collect pollen from plant anthers, mix it with a small dose of the secretion from salivary glands or nectar, and place it in specific baskets (corbiculae) which are situated on the tibia of their hind legs. Pollen grains, depending of the plant species, differ in shape, color, size, and weight. It sometimes happens that the bees collect pollen from many different plant species. They may occasionally collect fungal spores from moldy plants [8, 9]
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