Bio News Texas, 4/15/2014
Can bee venom be an effective therapy for treating symptoms
of Multiple Sclerosis and other disorders? The Lombard, Illinois, based
American Apitherapy Society, which celebrates its 25 Year Anniversary this
year, serves as a clearing-house for information for persons interested in
Apitherapy, alternative form of health care that uses bee hive products —
including honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly and bee venom — to treat many
illnesses and to alleviate pain from injuries both chronic and acute. The
organization reaches beyond the conventional Western medical model with a
holistic approach to health and healing.
The Society notes that currently the most popular and
well-known applications for honey bee venom therapy in the United States are
for people suffering from Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and many forms of arthritis.
They note that there is some scientific data supporting the use of Apitherapy
for treatment of post-herpetic neuralgia, and that several articles were
written in the first half of the 20th-Century about using bee venom in the
treatment of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, as well as some recent
and ongoing research investigating Apitherapy’s effect in MS, and that many
anecdotal reports suggest that bee venom might have some usefulness in the
treatment of various infectious, auto-immune, cardiovascular, pulmonary, and
gastrointestinal diseases and in neuropathic pain and other chronic pain
conditions…
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