Beeswax is a complex organic compound. The main components of beeswax are esters, fatty acids and sugars synthesized by higher fatty acids and monohydric alcohols, but their components are different due to different bee species, honey powder source plants and extraction methods.

But beeswax is medicinal. For example, "Compendium" records that honey has a strong taste, so it nourishes the spleen. The smell of wax is thin, so it nourishes the stomach. Thick taste is sweet and slow, so it moistens the viscera. Thin people are light in taste and strong in nature, so they stop diarrhea. Zhang Zhongjing mainly treats dysentery with liqi decoction, and the prescription treats dysentery with glue wax soup, which has a good effect.

Deputy Director Xia, an expert on external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine in Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, commented on traditional Chinese medicine: from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the general situation of severe cough and asthma in cold days belongs to wind-cold, while beeswax is a relatively warm Chinese herbal medicine, which has its own astringent effect and can be used as an auxiliary treatment for colds, coughs and asthma.

Extended data:

Beeswax is a fatty substance secreted by four pairs of wax glands in the abdomen of school-age worker bees in bee colony. In the bee colony, worker bees use their own wax to repair the nesting spleen, ovary cover and feed room cover. Nest spleen is the place where bees store food, cultivate bees and live in groups. So beeswax is not only the product of bee colony, but also the necessary substance for their survival and reproduction.

Beeswax is a substance secreted by four pairs of wax glands under the abdomen of worker bees. Its main components are acids, free fatty acids, free fatty alcohols and carbohydrates. In addition, there are carotenoids, vitamin A, aromatic substances and so on.

Beeswax is widely used in industrial and agricultural production. In the cosmetics manufacturing industry, many beauty products contain beeswax, such as shower gel, lipstick and rouge. In the candle processing industry, beeswax can be used as the main raw material to make various types of candles; In the pharmaceutical industry, beeswax can be used to make dental casting wax, base wax, sticky wax and pill shells;

It can be used as coating, packaging and coating of food in food industry; It can be used in agriculture and animal husbandry to make fruit tree grafting wax and pest adhesive; In beekeeping, you can make nests and wax bowls.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-beeswax

References:

People's Daily Online-Health Care: Does Fried Duck Eggs with beeswax relieve cough and asthma?