Bee sting treatment

Treatment with bee stings is a treatment with a unique natural toxin. Apitoxin looks like a yellowish transparent liquid of thick consistency with a characteristic odor. The poison quickly becomes thicker and hardens when exposed to air for more than an hour.

Apitoxin is acid-dependent, it quickly loses its beneficial properties in the stomach, but it retains them well in an oil base, as well as in dried or raw form. In a sealed package, apitoxin can be stored for decades without losing its properties. If someone dares to try it on the tongue, they will feel a bitter, sharp taste. When a bee stings, the smell of the secreted toxin instantly spreads, attracting other bees.

Benefits of a Bee Sting

In fairness, it is necessary to note the undeniable advantages that apitoxin (bee venom) can bring. The benefit of a bee sting is in the composition of the venom. The toxin from the glands of bees is extracted with great difficulty, each gram of it is really very valuable, as it contains peptides, about 20 amino acids, nine protein components, fat, carbohydrates, histamine, 12 mineral active substances, acids. Each bite is a release of about 0.3 grams of apitoxin.

At present, apitherapy is just beginning its revival and ascent, and in ancient times, dozens of diseases were treated with bee venom. The highest ranks, right up to imperial families, did not disdain to use the services of yellow-striped doctors. Hippocrates and Galen used bees for their patients. The Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible was not afraid to apply bees to sore joints, this is how he treated gout. It is known that after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, among those who managed to survive, more than half were either beekeepers or simply lovers of bee products. It is obvious that the healing properties of venom, honey, pollen had a radioprotective effect. In this sense, the benefits of a bee sting saved the lives of many thousands of Japanese. In modern medicine, apitoxin is used with caution, until now traditional medicine recognizes it only as a component included in pharmaceuticals. "Live" treatment with bees is considered exotic today, although the number of apitherapists is growing every year.

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Why is bee sting treatment effective?

Treatment with bee products has long been considered effective due to their naturalness, and because the result was visible quickly enough and lasted for a long time. Apitoxin is a product of the glands of worker bees. The main, natural purpose of the poison is not treatment at all, but protection - from their own kind, from other enemies, which include both wild animals and people. The concentration of active components in the poison depends on the age of the insect, how well-fed it is, and the quality of the food environment. Baby bees are not able to secrete poison, as well as drones, which do not have a sting at all. Quite rarely does the queen of the hive sting - the mother, it is not a royal business to spray her secretory substances. Most often, worker bees sting, that is, workers, especially at the age of 16 to 18 days. Moreover, such bees can sting only after they have eaten pollen.

Apitoxin is much more active and softer in terms of aggressive impact on the human body than snake venom. Among the main healing properties of apitoxin, the following can be noted:

• Enzymatic activity is 25-30 times higher than that of snake toxin.
• Antibacterial action.
• Antiseptic and bactericidal action.
• Small doses have an activating effect, large doses have a relaxing effect.
• Anticonvulsant effect.
• Anesthesia.
• Vasodilation, nootropic effect.
• Counter-current action.
• Anticonvulsant effect due to the high content of melittin in the venom.
• Activation of the spinal cord due to the content of apamin in the poison.
• Cardiostimulating and antiarrhythmic effects.
• Hypotensive property
• Increased concentration of hemoglobin in the blood.
• Blood thinning, antithrombotic effect.
• Activation of cortisol production.
• Increased activity, especially motor activity, of the digestive tract.
• Enzymatic action.
• Anti-erosive action.
• Hepatoprotective action.
• Activation of the bronchopulmonary system.
• Expectorant action.
• Stimulation of the pituitary and adrenal glands.
• Sugar-lowering effect.
• Radioprotective effect.
• Improving metabolism.

The list of healing properties of bee venom is so long that the scope of the article simply cannot cover it, in addition, all appointments must be made by a trained specialist - an apitherapist, since treatment with bee stings also has contraindications:

Who is not recommended for “live” bee therapy procedures:

• For a person diagnosed with an idiosyncrasy to bee products, as well as for someone who has already suffered a severe bee sting.
• The period of exacerbation of any disease.
• Purulent inflammatory processes.
• Diseases accompanied by decompensation of internal organs.
• Chronic or acute kidney disease, liver disease, gastric ulcer.
• Cardiopathies – myocardial dystrophy, pericarditis, angina pectoris, aortic aneurysm.
• Systemic blood diseases.
• Bronchial asthma.
• Oncoprocess.
• Diabetes mellitus (insulin-dependent form).
• Pregnancy, breastfeeding period.
• Tuberculosis.
• Children under five years of age.
• Hepatitis.
• Cachexia.
• Skin and venereal diseases.
• Some types of mental illnesses.
• Treatment with bees should be carried out with caution after vaccination (at least a month's break is required).

Treatment for bee stings is carried out in several ways:

1. The first stage is a bioassay, i.e. a check for a possible allergic reaction. The test is carried out by stinging in the lumbar region, then observation is carried out for an hour. If there are no signs of an aggressive immune response, treatment can be carried out.
2. Also, before the course of treatment, a whole series of laboratory tests is carried out - blood (hemoglobin, leukocytes, erythrocytes, ESR, etc.), urine (sugar, protein).
3. The bite test is repeated after laboratory tests are received.
4. Treatment with live bees is carried out similarly to the acupuncture method, that is, at biologically active points of the body. The bee is applied to a certain point, carefully holding it with tweezers. Immediately after the sting, the bee is removed, but the reservoir with healing apitoxin remains in the body for the required period (from 5 to 10 minutes).
5. The course of treatment involves sessions with an increasing number of bites, as well as breaks between procedures.

This exotic therapy has obviously not been fully studied and has not yet received due assessment, despite the fact that there is official data on 80% of long-lived beekeepers.

Treatment of prostatitis with bee stings

The disease of civilization is not only allergies, heart attacks, strokes, but also prostatitis, which is becoming “younger” every year. Prostatitis is now diagnosed even in 25-year-old young men, which did not happen in principle 50 years ago.

Treatment of prostatitis with bee stings is, perhaps, a cry of despair when traditional therapy no longer helps. However, such an unusual and exotic method is capable, if not to completely cure the disease, then at least to transfer it into a stable remission.

What is required for apitherapy in such cases? Of course, the favorable time for bees is summer, the patient himself and an experienced apitherapist with a medical education.

The physiologically explainable "favorable" place for stinging is considered to be the foreskin, but not the head of the penis. It is through the praeputium (prepuce, foreskin) that apitoxin quickly gets into the cavernous bodies, and then into the sore spot itself - the prostate. According to those heroes who have gone through the bee procedure, pain is present only during the first two or three stings, perhaps this is explained by the analgesic property of bee venom. The course begins with 3-5 stings, then gradually the number of stings is increased to 35-40. There are other apitherapy schemes, which are based on applying bees to acupuncture points of the hips, lower back, legs and abdominal area.

Treatment of prostatitis with bee stings brings noticeable relief from pain symptoms, in addition, blood circulation in the prostate is activated, swelling and congestion in the prostate are relieved.

Treatment of spinal hernia with bee stings

If bee venom is used to treat hundreds of diseases, from scars to multiple sclerosis, then the treatment of a spinal hernia with bee stings should not be surprising in principle. Even those who have not yet dared to undergo such an unusual procedure have probably already used ointments containing apitoxin and have seen their effectiveness. Accordingly, you can begin apitoxin therapy - this is the name of the method of treatment using a bee sting. In addition to treating a hernia, bee stings help relieve the symptoms of osteochondrosis, as they relieve local inflammation and activate blood flow to the damaged area. As for intervertebral hernia, apitherapy can relieve spasms and blockages of the muscles surrounding the disc, in addition, as a result of relaxation, it becomes possible to resume all metabolic processes in the damaged tissues. It is the ability of bee venom to fight the degenerative process in the vertebrae that makes the procedure effective and efficient.

Treatment of spinal hernia with bee stings is carried out using the acupuncture method, that is, applying insects to special biologically active points on the back. In addition to the fact that the poison affects bone tissue, it quickly penetrates the adrenal cortex and activates the production of anti-inflammatory hormones, thus providing not so much a local anesthetic effect as a deep therapeutic effect.

In conclusion, it is worth adding a few interesting facts that will help rehabilitate the bee sting in the eyes of readers.

• An essential product included in the astronauts' diet is honey, and the space first aid kit includes topical medications containing apitoxin.
• Bees are indicators of air pollution. If you go out into nature, where trees and flowers are blooming and you do not see a single bee, then the ecological situation in this place is unfavorable.
• Bees circling around the hive (swarming) will not sting a person; this is done by the “workers”, that is, those insects that are sent to collect nectar.
• The queen bee never stings a person; she reserves her poison for potential rivals – contenders for the “throne”.
• There are customs bees that are specially trained to recognize the smell of narcotics and explosives. In addition to several bees learning this action, they pass on the "knowledge" to their relatives in the hive.
• According to legend, the founding father of medicine, Hippocrates, who not only praised the healing properties of honey and bee venom, but was also keen on beekeeping, lived to be 107 years old.