Propolis Tincture || The Beekeeper's Apothecary 

Grandmas in Brazil gives you propolis for EVERYTHING. From an ingrown nail to strep throat! Haahahahaha. I have warm memories of it. Something very common is to mix propolis with honey ( about 1 or 2 drops of propolis per tablespoon of honey) and take 1 tablespoon of that mix 3 or 4 times per day to treat cough, bronchitis, and other respiratory problems.

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Years ago there was an article in a homeopathic magazine that said propolis has its own antibiotic properties but also increases antibiotics power by 50 -100% I had a horse with an injury to his hock (elbow) that antibiotics was not clearing up. On the third round I used propolis tincture under his tongue (he didn't mind at all) 3x a day and he was healed and never had anymore issues with his leg.

You gals are right on track. Without Nature, we wouldn't be here. Ya ll make it fun to learn. 🤙🤙

got to love that saying "don't be afraid to get you're hands dirty and learn something old" ;)

One of the most soothing presenters on RU-vid. I have binge watched for hours and, have never been so chilled. You are a wonderful family 👌🏻

This is a much better method than what I do with propolis. I usually just track it on my shoes onto the kitchen tiles and my wife yells at me! Haha!

I've been gone awhile but I'm glad I'm back. My propolis tincture looks just like yours. I made mine with everclear. Love your videos. Cheers!

Hi I don't mean to be disrespectful, but propolis tincture, if is not diluted right, its value goes to "zero" and I will explain why I am a third generation beekeeper that come from one of the european countries, so I inherited quite a lot of info, in this particular case about propolis; I go by grams, don't use parts or any other measure, there is a reason why they call propolis 30%, 40%, may it be less, or more %, but I never go less than 30%-35% propolis and I calculate when I dilute in 200 proof or 95-100% alchool, not votka that is 50% alchool, and that mix with less alchool % to bring it to an average of 70% alchool and dilution. If not extracted in 95% alchool or higher, you waste about 50-60% of your propolis, that 50% Votka is simply not strong enough to do the job; I sell propolis tincture in large quantities to my costumers, I educate them how to use the tincture, may it be mixed in a jar of honey or just in drops doses, one should keep in mind, propolis tincture is used for different therapies in different doses, but the discussion about propolis benefits is a good thing you got going on. I make sure we as a family use it, my kids seem to like it when I mix about 10cc in a pint of honey, that is what they can tolerate of the propolis taste, but they have been taking it every day for as long as I remember, it works, and american public should be educated more with regards to natural benefits of all honeybees products. Also, all the leftover sand-like stuff that remains after I strain the tincture thru a coffee filter, I remix with rubbing alchool and "paint" all my swarm traps with it, once the alchool evaporates, the smell of wax and leftover propolis entice new swarms to take ownership of that particular swarm box. Best regards Dan

In Brazil, Propolis is well known for its healing properties. It’s excellent for sore throat, strep throat, colds, and so on. First time I learn how to make tinctures with propolis… Great video!

Also a beekeeper and purchased a propolis trap later part of last year for this purpose. Thank you for sharing your video as it will be useful. :)

Thank you for sharing this information on propolis. I will be collecting it from my hive from now on. I've learned so much from you. Keep up the good work!!💖🐝

Great video! Lots of info, sharing with us is greatly appreciate it!

*This is great! I was wondering about this myself. Awesome!*

Great video that what I started Growing Giant Vegetables and Beekeeping this year my plan is grow lot's of great flowers for Bee 🐝 I love you video 😉🐝

Great info! Thanks for sharing! We are hoping to get more bees 🐝 this spring. 🙏🏻😇👍🏻

Phenomenal!!!! So informative!! With all my research on my bees I haven’t ventured into propolis 🤷🏻‍♀️ 🤪 - Thank You!! I do use my straight up honey for healing - gotta zit put honey on it - a burn or a cut it will heal in just a couple of days and basically no scaring. Now I’m excited to save any propolis I have to remove from my hives🤗

AWSOME video! There is so much more we can learn and your helping! I can't ever understand why someone would give you a thumbs down on any of your videos! I'm sure you aren't bothered but it's just impossible to believe that people are that oblivious to things that haven't been proven by the government! Keep up your wonderful work ✅😁👍👍🏴‍☠️

I knew propolis had lots of healing properties but I wouldn’t have thought to have made a tincture. Thanks for sharing. 🐝-Kirsten

As always a great video with great information. Keep it up!

You could try using a magnetic stir/hot plate to make your tincture. You could probably get it done in a few hours. I use them in a lab and they can make short work of tasks like that.

That is so cool that you're learning about all this and I eagerly await more information about natural remedies!!!!

You are doing great. Keep up the good work. George from Texas.

God bless all your natural endeavours. 🌸 🐝

Ok That It Guys I Love This Girl After This Video! Great Job Bee Girl!

Outstanding. Great information.

Informative video, I was researching how to make my own propolis tincture. I use the Brazilian Green propolis and it's $40 per 1oz dropper bottle. But I love the stuff. It was harder to find but I did find a site that sells organic green propolis. Now that you showed me how to make it, I can save some money making it myself!

I’ve never had it but have no doubt is beneficial. Good information and thanks for sharing.

I've made many herbal tinctures but never have heard of propolis tincture, Nice!

Thx for mentioning your school. Doable for me for next year!

Great video and thanks for sharing. I'm making some tincture now that I use a 1 to 3 ratio of propolis to alcohol with 95% alcohol.

As a long time beekeeper who also makes propolis tincture, this is a fabulous video and your videography is fantastic. Sorry for the mousy. Happened to me to and so that hive is now know as my "mousoleum" :)

I’ve been thinking about trying to start a bee farm .. you are amazing for teaching people about natural remedies !!! I think it’s amazing how Mother Earth gives us what we need ! A great example is how Mullen grows in abundance after a forest fire I believe that is mother earths way of healing the respiratory system for animals and humans after breathing in all the smoke . We live on an amazing planet . Thank you again ! You are appreciated !! 🕊💚🕊

Its much informative for me and my wife we will try it

Much of our medicine comes from nature, or is synthesized forms of natural chemicals. That's why honey is so vital. The bees collect all that goodness from flowers and condense it. We're making honey taffy right now actually. :o)

Propolis is good stuff for sure. I have a very similar mouse story. The bees are truly amazing creatures and deserve our respect. I intend to make more time to video share some more of my experiences from the bee yards. :) Thanks for sharing yours! :)

Thank you for rediscovering propolis, even Antonio Stradivari used it as a conservative wood preservation for his precious violin’s

Love it!!

Yarrow is also a natural styptic in powder form and taken internally is a rare one that will go to where it's needed to help mend the body!!!!!

Goldenrod is also wonderful for the Monarch butterflies!

Thank you, great for information.

Can be used as a bait for swarm traps. Just paint it on the inside of the box.😎😎👍👍

I used propolis for a huge wart I had on my thumb that the doctor wouldn’t touch because it was growing into my nail. Well, I no longer have a wart at all, nor do I have a scar 🥰

Great video. Love to learn something new. Wayne in Georgia

Propolis is really miraculous, especially the part of the mouse that did not decompose, remained like a mummy.

Oh dang, the herbal school is a little too far for me to travel to, but I'm definitely inspired to look around for local herbalism classes now. Thank you for sharing this information, I had no idea the bee glue was useful for humans!

I took it in capsules briefly, the mental clarity and overall sharpness is something.

Thank you so much

Great video as always.. thanks for sharing....Larry

EXCELLENT

I just love everything that you're doing and learning. Remember these things can also benefit our pets as well. Keep doing what you're doing with the channel. Love seeing old soul living in the younger generation!

Such good info!

I’m a beekeeper and been making propolis tinctures for years and used it on my pets and friends n families,,always works like magic.I need to make a video specifically about Propolis and my years experience.Our lifestyle is very similar but i grow in bigger scale and i love grow medicinal plants and anything that benefits the pollinators.We should def connect.

Awesome!

Propolis is gold!!!!

Nice work Dr Kaylee ! 😊😊😊

That is a Bee-u-tee-full medicine cabinet!

Thank you for sharing ✌️💞🤟🤟

Great video! My bees shared their excess propolis with us. I knew I wanted to make a tincture. Can you give a more detailed dosing and exactly how to use it? Good luck with your schooling. Can't wait to benefit from your hard work.

Keep up the great work!

Interesting ❤

About a year ago I simply glossed over the topic (ignoring)....today a video popped up and I watched 3 different people explain the natural product. Went out and bought a bottle! 2024

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I love this newly discovered channel of yours. I would like to know what tincture will or would help in the digestive area. Sluggish

You may know this already…short toothed mountain mint plant is absolutely a plant that bees go crazy over. It attracts and feeds bees. I had it in zone 6 and it is a native but not well known.

I like watching your vids

Excellent! Where are you have your homestead? In which state? The propolis look it good!

Amazing! My propolis is black. With alcohol it turns dark grey. Different plants, I am in Europe, we have lots of cistus among others. That colour was a big surprise, beautifull.

I have been saving a wad of it, didn't know what to do with it. Tried to eat some but it stuck to my teeth. lol

This video came with such perfect timing for me. I was literally talking to a friend/fellow beekeeper about propolis harvesting & uses today! Kismet! I've heard it can be great for hair growth.

Love u from Philippines

Thanks for sharing

If you can get 80-90% alcohol that extracts best. Ratio 1 part propolis by weight to 5 parts alcohol by volume.

You are gorgeous in so many ways! Your husband is so luck to find a beautiful woman like you!

The BEST canker sore cure.

Thank you for sharing I want to infuse the propolis with olive oil

🙋🏼‍♀️🕊 hi there I am a big fan of propolis , Wondering if it can be added to the hunny. Would it still be affective.

What beautiful flower is at 3:04? A friend who lives in Virginia Beach said it has been snowing there. I love my white Russians...Yellow bees?😀 Thanks for the interesting post!

Thank you

Thanks .

That looks a rare commodity.

Where'd you find that amazing wooden morter and pestle?

Best thing in the world for tooth ache!! Also mixed with olive leaf and a touch of mint, it will knock out a sore throat in seconds!

Now you have me googling “propolis tincture dosing” and I don’t even have bees. Interesting all the different infirmities that it can treat.

I remove bees and I have seen a dead mouse in a hive I removed and it was proplized like you said. Gave it to the home owner and his kid thought it was the coolest thing in the world.

when making tincture, it is best to use alcohol (grain alcohol) that is over 180 proof( 90% or greater). the proportion of propolis to alcohol should be 1:2. Also it would take just 8-15 days until you can filter it (even using a coffee filter or tissue paper ) and bottle it in eyedropper bottles.

I wish I had my own home so that I could raise bees. I looked it up and at least the raw, unfiltered, unpasteurized honey contains a bit of propolis, so I'll still get some benefits. Had a spoonful of the wildflower honey today. Just started compiling everything I'm learning in a notebook. I dedicated the first portion to Vitamins (going through each and explaining what they do and what dietary source they are) and Minerals (same). Then I go into the herbs and plants. I'm still on Vitamins. This part was important to me so that I can formulate my meals for optimal nutrition (I'm doing low carb due to my insulin resistance/pre-diabetes so I have to make sure I get all my nutrients -- also my doctor just did labs and everything's great!). I was feeling a bit weak and realized looked in my notebook and saw some symptoms I was experiencing were related to folate and b12 so I had a zespri sungold kiwifruit (has TONS of nutrients! including those two) and also a spoonful of honey and drank a cup of water and I feel better. Earlier for dinner I had corned beef with fresh green beans and added walnuts and creme fraiche along with a spoonful of perilla leaves that I've been soaking in organic white wine vinegar to preserve them, but also to get the nutrients. They're supposed to be really good as a medicinal as well. Which is good, because I think I've come down with a stomach bug or something. According to NCBI NLM NIH GOV "Perilla has traditionally been prescribed to treat depression-related disease, anxiety, asthma, chest stuffiness, vomiting, coughs, colds, flus, phlegm, tumors, allergies, intoxication, fever, headache, stuffy nose, constipation, abdominal pain, and indigestion, and acts as an analgesic, anti-abortive agent, and a sedative." I usually get them at the Korean market, H-Mart. If you don't know them, they're large leaves that are green and the other side is like greenish purple (kind of like Thai basil), and has a taste between mint and basil. They have LOTS of vitamins and minerals. It also goes on to say, "Until now, 271 natural molecules have been identified in perilla organs including phenolic acids, flavonoids, essential oils, triterpenes, carotenoids, phytosterols, fatty acids, tocopherols, and policosanols. In addition to solvent extracts, these individual compounds (rosmarinic acid, perillaldehyde, luteolin, apigenin, tormentic acid, and isoegomaketone) have attracted researchers’ interest for its pharmacological properties. Perilla showed various biological activities such as antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-allergic, antidepressant, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, and neuroprotection effects". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6337106/#:~:text=Perilla%20has%20traditionally%20been%20prescribed,anti%2Dabortive%20agent%2C%20and%20a

Is propolis the same as bee pollen? I made a tincture with bee pollen because I don’t like eaten them (not a fan of the taste). Now I’m wondering if this is the same.

Can you do this with the dried powder form if you can't get it fresh?

I have some questions, if you'd be willing to answer them I don't know how to make a private chat. I'm not electronic savvy. So I guess I'll just come check this periodically and hope you see this. Can I extract the beeswax and then use the propolis from old scraped frames? If I heat the propolis will it hurt the properties? Do you render wax and then use a propolis?

My self I am using 300gr propolis in 1L of Alcohol of 95° food grade. Using a dark glass bottle and agitated 2 /day for minimum 30 days after filtered tr a cotton wool. The best propolis is brown to dark colour.

Hi Kaylee, does a FlowHive have propolis in it? Thanks! Brian

I saw a Passion Flower in there.... do they grow wild on your property?? I would pay for some root starts of the vines....

Sustainable gas fireplace lolol

Hi, whichs requeriments for sell tincture of propolis? FDA? or others? Thanks.

Good Morning, Do you ingest this daily? or as needed?

The International Propolis Research Group (IPRG) is holding a two day online conference to discuss everything propolis this month! Starting on the 27th May, there are various keynote speeches and short lectures from all over the globe! Anybody who's interested head over to our website!

I just recenty learned about Propolis.. would like to make a tincture.. Where can I buy organic propolis?

Hello. as you said there are meny recipes that you can use, as in each country there is a standard that has to be met.... in Hungary you can not make a higher than 5% propolis tincture by low, but in Romania the standard is 30% propolis tincture with 70-75% alcohol...... I start it whit 96 % alcohol and after 1 week of tincturing, I add 60 % alcohol to get the 70-75 % that is needed. after a minimum of 2 weeks, I strain it in coffe filter paper... I will try to make a prezentation movie for it...

I love your videos but can you make a video showing how to treat varroa and what do you use