Immune support

What is propolis? Propolis is a substance that honeybees produce by combining resins they collect from trees and plants. In the hive they combine the resins with wax and process the whole through their enzymatic systems. The bees use propolis in the hive to protect the colony against infection and it’s also ve…

In 2013 60% of all the honeybees in the United States died. Honeybees were leaving healthy hives and not coming back. With no one able to pin down a single simple reason for the problem it came to be known as Colony Collapse Disorder. Basically, the bees gave up. The complex and mysterious glue that kept the coloni…

In this guest post from our friends The Herbal Docs, Adam and Haris explore the amazing medicinal properties of mushrooms. Mushrooms have been a source of food, religious rites, clothing, and medicines for thousands of years. And now that science has caught up to the ancient remedy, we are just beginning to discove…

An antiseptic cream works to destroy harmful microorganisms which cause infection and illness. Not all antiseptics work in the same way. Some target the walls of microorganism cells causing them to burst. Others help prevent harmful germs from replicating so they eventually die. Pharmaceutical antiseptics contains …

Antibiotics are medicines which help stop infections caused by bacteria. They do this by killing the bacteria directly, or from preventing it from replicating. Antibiotic drugs have been around since the 1920s. Before then, relatively minor bacterial infections could prove fatal. Antibiotics have revolutionised health…