Bee Propolis: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Bee Propolis is a medicine sold in the U.S. under one brand. Below: what the FDA label says, every product that contains it, what the pills look like, and its recall record.
Key facts
- Sold as
- Propolis
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
Every bee propolis product we track (1)
Same active ingredient — different manufacturer, form, price and FDA recall record. That last one is what our independent score measures.
Only one: Propolis.
What people report to the FDA about bee propolis
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 17 reports naming bee propolis, and the FDA flagged 65% of those reports as serious. The effects reported most often — leaving out reports about overdose, misuse or the condition being treated, which dominate the raw list for common medicines:
- dizziness2 reports
- headache2 reports
- mental disorder2 reports
- abdominal discomfort1 reports
- abdominal pain1 reports
- arthralgia1 reports
- asthenia1 reports
- back pain1 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean bee propolis caused the effect — anyone can file one, and many describe people taking several medicines for several conditions. Crucially there is no denominator: FAERS does not record how many people took the drug, so these counts cannot be turned into “X% of patients” — a bigger number often just means a more widely used or more talked-about drug. Duplicates exist, and publicity drives reporting. For what is actually established, read the FDA label section above.
Source: openFDA drug/event (FAERS), retrieved July 25, 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Propolis?
Propolis (Bee Propolis) is a dietary supplement.
Can you take bee propolis with other medicines?
It depends on the medicine. We check it against the FDA labels rather than guessing: our interaction checker searches each drug's own label for the other and quotes what it says, naming the section it came from. Run bee propolis against whatever else you take — and remember that a label not naming a drug is not the same as that combination being safe.
Is there a generic bee propolis?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled bee propolis product. That does not always mean none exists — it means none appears under a generic name in the FDA data we track. Ask your pharmacist.
Cite this page
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- pharmaranks. (2026, July 24). Bee Propolis: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/bee-propolis
- MLA
- “Bee Propolis: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/bee-propolis.
We summarise public FDA and NIH sources — for a clinical claim, cite the primary source we link to as well.
Sources: FDA openFDA drug label, National Drug Code Directory, and Enforcement (recall) database. This page reproduces public FDA data and is not medical advice. Dosing is set by your prescriber.
Read the full FDA label for bee propolis on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.