Open AccessOn the clinical application of the beekeeping product - royal jelly
Author(s) -
O. S. Radbil,
А. П. Калинин
Publication year - 1960
Publication title -
kazanskij medicinskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-9359
pISSN - 0368-4814
DOI - 10.17816/kazmj88909
Subject(s) - royal jelly , beekeeping , honey bee , queen (butterfly) , worker bee , larva , biology , product (mathematics) , zoology , toxicology , hymenoptera , ecology , mathematics , geometry
In recent years, practitioners of various specialties abroad have shown increasing interest in royal jelly, a product fed by worker bees to the larvae of the queen bee of the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.). The amazing biological properties of royal jelly are well known: being on this food turns the larva of an ordinary working bee into a queen bee, which is much larger than working bees in size, life expectancy, enormous power of the reproduction apparatus, etc.