eprintid: 17803 rev_number: 20 eprint_status: archive userid: 2 dir: disk0/00/01/78/03 datestamp: 2025-05-29 23:30:12 lastmod: 2025-05-29 23:30:12 status_changed: 2025-05-29 23:30:12 type: book_section metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Qian, Jingjing creators_name: Chen, Ge creators_name: Bei, Yang creators_name: Qi, Zexiu creators_name: Cianciosi, Danila creators_name: Armas Diaz, Yasmany creators_name: Cassotta, Manuela creators_name: Álvarez-Suárez, José M. creators_name: Battino, Maurizio creators_name: Giampieri, Francesca creators_id: creators_id: creators_id: creators_id: creators_id: creators_id: creators_id: manucassotta@gmail.com creators_id: creators_id: maurizio.battino@uneatlantico.es creators_id: francesca.giampieri@uneatlantico.es title: Health Benefits and Uses of Beeswax in Medicine ispublished: pub subjects: uneat_sn divisions: uneatlantico_produccion_cientifica full_text_status: none abstract: Beeswax (BW) is the substance that forms the structure of a honeycomb, made by bees to store honey. Compared with honey and propolis, beeswax as a by-product possesses several favorable therapeutic properties and is of great interest to the scientific community. In this chapter, the various health benefits of beeswax and its applications are systematically introduced, including mainly the protection of skin disease, wound healing, oxidative damage, antimicrobial activities, and other health applications, with the aim to make more common the use of this by-product for human health. Beeswax, due to its beneficial components and special structural properties, could even assist in preventing and treating some types of cancers or some metabolic diseases, such as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Therefore, this chapter aims to update the major scientific works that have highlighted the various health benefits exerted by beeswax in different types of pathological conditions. date: 2025-05 publisher: Springer, Cham pagerange: 505-519 pages: 562 id_number: doi:10.1007/978-3-031-89049-9_16 refereed: TRUE isbn: 978-3-031-89049-9 book_title: Bee Products – Chemical and Biological Properties official_url: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-89049-9_16 access: close language: en citation: Sección/Capítulo de Libro Materias > Alimentación Universidad Europea del Atlántico > Investigación > Artículos y libros Cerrado Inglés Beeswax (BW) is the substance that forms the structure of a honeycomb, made by bees to store honey. Compared with honey and propolis, beeswax as a by-product possesses several favorable therapeutic properties and is of great interest to the scientific community. In this chapter, the various health benefits of beeswax and its applications are systematically introduced, including mainly the protection of skin disease, wound healing, oxidative damage, antimicrobial activities, and other health applications, with the aim to make more common the use of this by-product for human health. Beeswax, due to its beneficial components and special structural properties, could even assist in preventing and treating some types of cancers or some metabolic diseases, such as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Therefore, this chapter aims to update the major scientific works that have highlighted the various health benefits exerted by beeswax in different types of pathological conditions. metadata Qian, Jingjing; Chen, Ge; Bei, Yang; Qi, Zexiu; Cianciosi, Danila; Armas Diaz, Yasmany; Cassotta, Manuela; Álvarez-Suárez, José M.; Battino, Maurizio y Giampieri, Francesca mail SIN ESPECIFICAR, SIN ESPECIFICAR, SIN ESPECIFICAR, SIN ESPECIFICAR, SIN ESPECIFICAR, SIN ESPECIFICAR, manucassotta@gmail.com, SIN ESPECIFICAR, maurizio.battino@uneatlantico.es, francesca.giampieri@uneatlantico.es (2025) Health Benefits and Uses of Beeswax in Medicine. In: Bee Products – Chemical and Biological Properties. Springer, Cham, pp. 505-519. ISBN 978-3-031-89049-9