The Beekeeper's Medicine Cabinet

Janet M. Bryan

Bees have been offering more than sweetness for centuries, and the people who tend them tend to know it best. This is what keepers actually reach for when a cough sets in or a cut needs tending: raw honey and its real differences from the store shelf, propolis and its long history as a wound salve, beeswax balms worth making by hand, and pollen's place in a home apothecary. Grounded, hands-on, and refreshingly unfussy.