[Latin Name] Sophora Japonica L

[Plant Source] from China

[Specifications] 90%-99%

[Appearance] Yellow crystalline powder

Plant Part Used:Bud

[Particle size] 80 Mesh

[Loss on drying] ≤12.0%

[Heavy Metal] ≤10PPM

[Storage] Store in cool & dry area, keep away from the direct light and heat.

[Shelf life] 24 Months

[Package] Packed in paper-drums and two plastic-bags inside.

[Net weight] 25kgs/drum

Brief Introduction

Quercetin is a plant pigment (flavonoid). It is found in many plants and foods, such as red wine, onions, green tea, apples, berries, Ginkgo biloba, St. John’s wort, American elder, and others. Buckwheat tea has a large amount of quercetin. People use quercetin as a medicine.

Quercetin is used for treating conditions of the heart and blood vessels including “hardening of the arteries” (atherosclerosis), high cholesterol, heart disease, and circulation problems. It is also used for diabetes, cataracts, hay fever, peptic ulcer, schizophrenia, inflammation, asthma, gout, viral infections, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), preventing cancer, and for treating chronic infections of the prostate. Quercetin is also used to increase endurance and improve athletic performance.

Main Function

1.Quercetin may expel phlegm and arrest coughing, it can also be used as anti-asthmatic.

2. Quercetin has anticancer activity, inhibits PI3-kinase activity and slightly inhibits PIP Kinase activity, reduces cancer cell growth via type II estrogen receptors.

3.Quercetin may inhibit histamine release from basophils and mast cells.

4. Quercetin may control the spread of certain viruses within the body.

5, Quercetin may help reduce tissue destruction.

6.Quercetin may also be beneficial in the treatment of dysentery, gout, and psoriasis

Rendering Beeswax – First Melt and Filter

This is Part 1. This takes the original combs straight from the hive down to a solid block for the first render. In this case, the combs had been slimed by small hive beetle (SHB) and contained all sorts of dead bee larva, beetle larva, wax moth, honey, etc. So just a whole hodgepodge of stuff.

Like usual, it is all melted together in one big pot with plenty of water. In general, the dirtier your wax, the higher your water/wax ratio needs to be . We melt it all down into a liquid mix, then sieve out the large solids, cocoons, larva, and dead bees.

Once it cools and solidifies, the wax has all floated to the top and leaves suspended gooey solids on the bottom, and also heavier solids that have sunk to the bottom of the pan.

Now we rinse off all the loose mucky debris. Next up we’ll take this same block of wax, and likely a few more like it after their primary render, and melt all of them together again. Hopefully if they all have a primary this clean, then all we’ll need is a secondary to pull out residual dirtiness, and isolate wax from propolis.

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Here I show what you need and how to extract the sweet compound called stevioside from the common stevia plant. This compound once extracted is great for sweetening everything from drinks, like coffee, or even use in baking and cooking.