Royal Jelly is a creamy secretion from the gland located in the heads of young adult female nurse bee. Bees produce Royal Jelly to feed their young larvae for the first three days of their lives, however only the Queen Bee receives a diet of pure Royal Jelly for her entire life.

Queen Bees are usually 2 – 3 times larger than other bees, live between 6 – 8 years and are capable of laying twice her body weight of eggs everyday while the live span of the worker bee is only between 2 – 3 months. Thus we can imagine the power of Royal Jelly.

Royal Jelly is mainly produced by adding frames of specially designed plastic cups containing larvae to the beehive and harvesting the Royal Jelly fed to these cells after three days. The process is not harmful to the larvae or the bee colony as a whole.

It is a difficult task to collect Royal Jelly because generally, only 2 to 3 grams of Royal Jelly can be collected from a single beehive during each harvest. To fill a 100g bottle of Royal Jelly will take immerse effort, making royal jelly even more precious.

Royal Jelly contains rich protein, 10 – hydroxyl deconoic acid (10 HDA), natural hormones, and vitamins A, B complex, C, D, and E. It also contains many minerals, calcium, iron, as well as the eight amino acids essential to the human life.

Consuming Royal Jelly helps to keep skin smooth, toned and elastic, stimulates the immune system to fight viral and bacterial infection, regulates and balances hormones, has a bactericidal action on bacteria like staph, stimulates growth, lowers blood lipids and cholesterol, helps to regenerate bone growth, builds tissue and muscles, supports wound healing, increases vigor and physical strength, provides extra physiological support during pregnancy and menopause, helps to alleviate the pain of arthritis, stimulates better memory and mental function, has an anti-depressive anti-anxiety effect, can help to regulate weight, rejuvenates the aged, sick or weak.

Royal Jelly is also effective for preventing, arteriosclerosis, rheumatoid Arthritis, inveteracy Hepatitis, tuberculosis, nephragra, hypertension, diabetes, gastritis, tumor and endocrine Disorder. *

* Book Reference – Healing from the Hive. Bee Pollen, Royal Jelly, Propolis and Honey by Rita Elkins M.H (Woodland Publishing)

The goodness of Royal Jelly is widely accepted in Europe. It is held that in the same esteem as Chinese would for “Lingzhi”, “Ginseng” etc, and Malays would for “Jamu”. However, it is not as widely consumed in Asia perhaps because there is less publicity or knowledge of its advantages. It could also be due to its somewhat strange taste and smell. Then again, with so much good to be derived from consuming Royal Jelly, and the fact that taste and smell is a matter of getting used to, shouldn’t this reason be thrown to the wind? As the Chinese saying goes “Good Medicine Taste Bitter”!