Naturalmedicine: Bee polls against hay fever 🐝

Ok getting out of my comfort zone writing this text. I promised Hive account@riverflows but it is a though job to write about the natural medicine I discovered to lighten up the days I’m suffering from hay fever. Tried to do some research on it, but there is still no scientific proof, or I didn’t find it off course! So, it could be my story isn’t complete yet or a reader might know more info (please fee lfree to add in the comments). But nonetheless I hope Hive account@riverflows like it for her new channel Hive account@naturalmedicine.

Many many people know how it feels. Every year again and again when spring kicks in, it’s a crime for certain people to get out and enjoy nature at its finest. Those people suffer from hay fever. Because there are many polls in the air. Those people allergic for the polls have though times. I could never imagine how though these people were during spring. Yes, I knew they had it rough sneezing, crying etc all the time for weeks. Until it hits me unexpectedly. First year I thought I caught a cold somewhere. The year after same period, some rough weeks again. Then a light started to blink, and I started thinking. Am I starting to get allergic for something?

Testing

That year I went to the doctor for some testing. It turned out that I was allergic for multiple trees (beech, birch, alder and the hazel) and cats. Where did this come from that sudden? All those years before none of the allergic symptoms and there they were…

I got some medicine from the doctor but those didn’t help. Actually, I was even more tired than without using those medicine. The year after I got multiple medicine, so that I could try what suits me the best. I found out after multiple sprays, pills, eye drops that the pills called Cetirizine suits me the best. It stopped the crying during those months, but I’m still sneezing, and tired. Went back multiple times to the doctor, but none of the alternative worked out that well as Cetirizine did for me. So I started to use those medicine somewhere at the beginning of January till the end of May. Just so I could keep going outside. Luckily for me in the area I live we don’t have that many forests. But where my girlfriend lives it forest, forest and oh wait even more forest! In that area the Cetirizine didn’t even help anymore.

Alternatives

That’s the reason I started to look for alternatives. First indeed in other medicine etc.
But how do these medicine work? All the different medicines work at different things. There are some medicine that fight the symptoms, that fight on the cause or you can also try immune therapy. But I never got there, so I don’t know how that works.

Bee Polls

I found my solution in a small natural thing created by the lovely bees you can find anywhere in the world. I’m using bee polls. I found an article on the internet about using the cause for the hay fever as a solution. Normally the polls are waving through the air by the wind. We’re breathing them in and they got in our eyes etc. The same polls will be collected by the bees. Bees collect the polls by adding a little bit of slime and create small balls from it. These balls turned out to be my solution!

The polls from bees have a powerful medicinal effect, this is because the slime of the bees neutralizes the allergic reaction from it. The slime is actually some quercetin, and this is a neutralizer for too much histamine.

When I started to take those bee polls on a daily base together with the Cetirizine. I started to feel myself better and better. Gone was the tired feeling, gone all the tears. Wait was this because of the polls?

The next year I decided to leave the medicine in the box and tried it with only some bee polls. And hey the effect was the same as last year.

Still hoping year by year, the hay fever disappears at the horizon just as it was there instantly and uninvited. But for now, the bee polls really do help a lot.

How do I use the bee polls?

I drink every day a glass of water with two teaspoons polls added to it. But you can add them to your smoothie, yoghurt, mix them with your normal food, take them raw etc. They taste usually sweet. But wait it depends from where you get them. So, try them first. Because I bought some polls and their taste was disgusting.

A drink I also like is this one

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  One glass of water
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  Juice from half a lemon
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  Two teaspoons polls
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  One teaspoon of honey
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  A sniff of sea salt
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Mix all the ingredients together and let them extract with the water.

Not working

The only thing the bee polls aren't working for are cats... Every time I visit friends with cats I have to think about my medicine. But this is better than using the medicine for months. Or I have to accept I will cry a lot during that visit (and not only by laughing 🤣).

Sources (dutch)
http://www.ilovehealth.nl/food/eetdagboek-van-health-lover-susanne/
https://jessevandervelde.com/het-superfood-effect-van-bijenpollen/
https://jessevandervelde.com/met-bijenpollen-lacht-de-dag-je-weer-toe/
https://www.styletoday.nl/home/bijenpollen-hooikoorts/