Health Benefits and Uses of Beeswax in Medicine

Jingjing Qian; Ge Chen; Yang Bei; Zexiu Qi; Danila Cianciosi; Yasmany Armas Diaz; Maurizio Battino; Francesca Giampieri; Manuela Cassotta; José M. Álvarez-Suárez

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-89049-9_16

Health Benefits and Uses of Beeswax in Medicine

Jingjing Qian
, Ge Chen
, Yang Bei
, Zexiu Qi
, Danila Cianciosi
, Yasmany Armas Diaz
, Maurizio Battino
, Francesca Giampieri^*
, Manuela Cassotta
, José M. Álvarez-Suárez

^*Corresponding author for this work

Universita Politecnica Delle Marche
Universidad Europea Del Atlántico (UEA)
Jiangsu University

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Abstract

Beeswax (BW) is the substance that forms the structure of a honeycomb, made by bees to store honey. Compared with honey and propolis, beeswax as a by-product possesses several favorable therapeutic properties and is of great interest to the scientific community. In this chapter, the various health benefits of beeswax and its applications are systematically introduced, including mainly the protection of skin disease, wound healing, oxidative damage, antimicrobial activities, and other health applications, with the aim to make more common the use of this by-product for human health. Beeswax, due to its beneficial components and special structural properties, could even assist in preventing and treating some types of cancers or some metabolic diseases, such as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Therefore, this chapter aims to update the major scientific works that have highlighted the various health benefits exerted by beeswax in different types of pathological conditions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Bee Products – Chemical and Biological Properties
Publisher	Springer Science+Business Media
Pages	505-519
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031890499
ISBN (Print)	9783031890482
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-89049-9_16
State	Published - 1 Jan 2025

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Keywords

Antimicrobial activity
Beeswax
Health Benefits
Oxidative protection
Wound healing

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