Saturday, August 17, 2013

Bee Sting Therapy Causing a Buzz in China

AFP, 8/13/2013
BEIJING, Aug 13 — Patients in China are swarming to acupuncture clinics to be given bee stings to treat or ward off life-threatening illness, practitioners say.
More than 27,000 people have undergone the painful technique—each session can involve dozens of punctures—at Wang Menglin’s clinic in Beijing, says the bee acupuncturist who makes his living from believers in the concept…

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