So as the afternoon passes on, the rain has started to fall but still there is a procession of both carriage drivers followed by various packs of hounds.
On talking to one of the members of Eurolink, I have learnt some more on the benefits of honey. He was telling more of the use of honey - one of them was to preserve biopsy samples from patients in villages in lesser developed countries as they are taken from the village to the city. On returning the message from the city to the village clinic, it is often transferred through satellite phone. So from a prehistoric medium to a twenty first century form of communication.
The propolis, a brown sticky substance, that the bees collect from various trees and plants and combine with their own enzymes are used as a form of protection, within the hive, against bacterial and viral infection. One website states that there are "much higher levels of a substance...called Caffeic Acid Phenethyl Ester...and very many dihydroflavonoid compounds...pinocembrin and pinobanksin". These compounds, no doubt, help to combat "a wide range of infections including" burns, sinus infections, sore throats, ulcers and wounds". It is also just as important that as it is a natural antibiotic, the micro-organisms are unable to to develop a resistance to the Propolis.
There is, of course, a bee and honey pavilion at the South of England Show where you will be able to gain more information.
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