title: [History and uses of honey, mead and hive products].
abstract: From Antiquity to marketing of cane sugar, and beet sugar in particular, honey was greatly consumed for its sweetening power; it was also employed for its therapeutic properties. Actually, it is always used in feeding and dietetic, and only as popular remedy. The hive products: pollen, propolis, royal jelly, introduced for few decades in dietetic meet show a great commercial passion; the beeswax was excipient in beauty care. These different aspects are developed in this study.
authors.affiliation: Faculté de pharmacie, Tours.
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Viel
authors.forename: Jean-Christophe
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Doré
mesh_terms: D049690:History, Ancient; D049692:History, Early Modern 1451-1600; D049691:History, Medieval; D049711:History, Modern 1601-; D006722:Honey / Q000266:history*