If mosquito bites do not cause anything but irritation, then many people are willing to pay money for the opportunity to be stung by a bee. About the methods of treating bees - apitherapy, read further in the article.
What is apitherapy?
In cases where doctors use live bees or use all kinds of beekeeping products to treat ailments, we should talk about apitherapy. The name of this therapeutic method just combines the Latin designations of the bee and the treatment. It is easy to guess what this method is called in Russian - bee therapy or bee treatment.
For centuries and even millennia, this healing direction was operated exclusively by traditional healers, until in the late 50s of the last century, official medicine came to its senses and ceased to consider apitherapy as quackery, but included it among the allowed methods.
Did you know? During the collection of nectar and pollen, one bee flies in a season as many kilometers as there are in the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
History of apitherapy
The beneficial effects of bees and, in particular, their poison on humans have been known in ancient Egypt, ancient China and ancient Rome. For the first time, the Czech physician F. Terch brought a serious scientific base for bee-removal at the end of the 19th century, and then an American researcher B. Beck made a significant contribution to the scientific study of treatment with bee venom in the 30s of the last century. Today, scientists have proven the health benefits of absolutely all bee products, which, when used correctly, are therapeutic agents, and the pharmaceuticals have replenished with hundreds of drugs based on them.
What products are used
The most popular because of its effectiveness is the treatment with bee venom, which is carried out using a live bee stinging the patient at predetermined active points on the body. When bee stinging, the insect leaves its sting in the patient, which enhances the effect on the nerve endings and immune cells concentrated at these active points. Today, without treatment with bee venom, it is difficult to imagine a fight against neuralgic and rheumatic manifestations.
And the most famous beekeeping product, of course, is honey, abundant in nutrients in the form of vitamins, micro and macro elements, enzymes and acids, which exhibit pronounced immunomodulating, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial properties in the treatment of colds, problems in the cardiovascular, nervous and pulmonary systems, pathologies in the gastrointestinal tract and other diseases.
The variety of medicinal qualities of honey contributes to the variety of its varieties represented:
- acacia;
- chestnut;
- mountainous;
- fireweed;
- clover;
- sunflower;
- fake;
- buckwheat;
- flower;
- Diaghilev.
Beeswax is characterized by a significant content of vitamin A, due to which it is an essential component of many therapeutic ointments and creams used for burns and skin diseases, as well as astringent cosmetics for skin care.Did you know? To produce 1 kilogram of fully prepared honey, bees need to fly around 8 million flowers.
Medicines are made even from dead bees, which are called death. These funds successfully fight high blood pressure, strengthen the walls of blood vessels, activate the cleansing of the body from poisons and toxins.
The drone homogenate, which is a liquid extracted from drones larvae, has the ability to activate metabolic processes in the body and strengthen its endurance.
The flower pollen collected by bees contains a huge amount of nutrients that contribute to solving problems with the digestive and nervous systems, blood composition, and thyroid gland.
Perga, which is a fermented pollen and honey, has a high bioactivity that helps fight a large number of diseases.
The scope of propolis extends to the fight against pathogenic cultures and to the treatment of dental and skin diseases, as well as to overcoming the problems associated with the pelvis.
Beeswax is the same wax, which, however, has the specific function of sealing honeycombs and has a wide range of medicinal properties.
The effect of bee venom on the human body
The active and effective healing effect of bee venom on the human body is due to its unique composition.
The composition of bee venom
More than 200 nutrients are found in a drop of the substance, which the bee is cracking down on unwanted insects and scares away from the hives of unwanted guests. And among them there are a lot of those that can no longer be found anywhere - neither in natural pantries, nor in pharmaceuticals.
They are presented, for example:
- mellitin, which is an excellent bactericidal agent that deals with many bacteria dangerous to humans, including streptococci, staphylococci and E. coli, as well as used in parasitology;
- cardiopepoptimizing the activity of the cardiovascular system;
- apaminecapable of lowering the level of bad cholesterol in the blood, activating metabolic processes and raising the tone of the nervous system;
- adolapinepossessing analgesic qualities superior to opium;
- acetylcholineshowing remarkable properties that cure paralysis.
The benefits of bee venom
The saturation of this bee product with unique healing substances determines its benefit to the human body.
- This is especially true when:
- back pain
- headaches;
- neuralgic problems;
- manifestations of multiple sclerosis;
- diseases of the respiratory system;
- venous problems;
- heart disease
- purely masculine and typically feminine health problems;
- diseases of the skin;
- post-infarction or post-stroke rehabilitation;
- paralysis.
Possible harm
Being a potent drug, bee venom, if used incorrectly, can cause serious harm to the human body, including death. This primarily concerns people suffering from individual intolerance to bee products in general and bee venom in particular. In the vast majority of other cases, the danger is also not the product itself, but the patient’s health status, regarding which there are contraindications to the use of bee venom, which will be discussed below.
What diseases to use
The variety of medicinal properties of bee venom corresponds to a large list of diseases in the fight against which this substance manifests itself as an effective therapeutic agent. It is possible to distinguish also diseases in the treatment of which bee venom brings maximum benefit.
Important! Independent and uncontrolled treatment with bee venom is unacceptable.
Arrhythmia
A malfunction in the rhythm of heart contractions, which reduces the functionality of the heart, can ultimately lead to serious complications in the human body. Cardiac arrhythmia has various forms, and with all their variants, bee venom is effective. To treat this disease with bee stinging, a point scheme is developed showing where to bee sting. Usually, bees are applied to the back in the neck, lower back, and between the shoulder blades. The course of treatment can include up to 150 bee removal. At the same time, doctors recommend that patients also consume honey in parallel.
Phlebeurysm
In cases when, for some reason, the tonus of the walls of the vessels decreases and their elasticity decreases, varicose veins occur, accompanied by the formation of “nodes” on them. The use of bee venom, which is often sent directly to the veins, stimulates the movement of blood in the capillaries and eliminates excessive venous pressure. A full course, including up to 200 bee stings, gives noticeable results in curing this pathology.
Hypotension
Low blood pressure is effectively eliminated by apitherapy, after which the blood pressure is optimized and stabilized. Hypotension is usually treated with a moderate number of stings, which depends on the objective indicators of the tonometer. In parallel, daily use of up to 150 mg of royal jelly is recommended.
Joint treatment
Bee therapy has proven itself in joint pathologies in the form of:
- sciatica;
- arthritis;
- arthrosis;
- vertebral osteochondrosis;
- polyarthritis.
There are 2 types of treatment for these diseases with bee venom. Bees are either planted directly on the affected joints, or specific active points on the body are selected for this procedure. The full course of treatment can include up to 250 bee stings and is repeated after 4 months.
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Special cases and contraindications
As already mentioned, with apitherapy, harm and benefit can coexist if doctors don’t know who and how to put the bee sting and what it gives to a particular patient, and they use this type of treatment illiterate. This is most often associated with ignorance of contraindications to bee venom treatment, the list of which is not so small.
You should not resort to bee removal in cases with such ailments:
- the presence of problems in the kidneys, liver, and pancreas;
- tuberculosis
- acute infectious diseases;
- decreased blood coagulability;
- pregnancy and lactation;
- various mental disorders;
- type 1 diabetes (with type 2 diabetes, on the contrary, bee venom helps to alleviate the course of the disease);
- a recent vaccination procedure;
- adrenal pathology;
- recent hepatitis;
- pulmonary insufficiency;
- oncological diseases.
Important! In no case should be treated with bee venom in children who have not yet turned 5 years old.
Apitherapy at home
Such a powerful drug, the improper use of which, as already mentioned, can have sad consequences up to a fatal outcome, does not allow free treatment of oneself. No wonder the instruction of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation prescribes the need to engage in apitherapy only for certified specialists who have undergone special advanced training courses.
It is easy to understand that at home, anyone and uncontrollably practice treatment with poison, even with bee, should not. It is one thing to engage in dubious, but harmless chewing of a sick person with bees, and it is quite another to inject poison into this person. If an unqualified, or even a scattered person is using poison, then you should expect trouble, which often happens.
How difficult and responsible the bee removal procedure is, is indicated by the actions of a certified specialist:
- First, a bioassay is performed to determine the patient's response to bee venom. To do this, a bee is planted on his forearm or lower back.
- After a bite, after 10 seconds the sting is removed from the patient’s body.
- Then, within 30 minutes, a person’s well-being is monitored.
- In the absence of negative symptoms in the form of nausea, dizziness, drowsiness, weakness, the patient goes home.
- The next day, testing continues. It begins with an inspection of the place yesterday’s sting. If everything is normal, then the apitherapist re-introduces the poison using a living bee. This time the sting is in the patient's body for a minute.
- Observation of the patient by the doctor during the second test also lasts half an hour.
- And only with the successful course of repeated testing, the doctor begins to develop strategies and tactics for treating bee venom, based on the diagnosis and severity of the disease.
So, in addition to no one and no substitute function of pollination of plants, without which a person’s dinner table would be scarce, bees also help a person to get rid of diseases effectively. But an experienced specialist should deal with this responsible matter.
Network user reviews
ADVANTAGES: Really helps
DISADVANTAGES: Sometimes it hurts when a lot of bees
I had to agree to this procedure because of my illness. Half a year of running around scientific institutes and treatment with different, expensive and heavy drugs did not give a result. Willy-nilly thought about alternative medicine. I don’t want to write about my disease in detail, I can only say that severe joint disease and unbalanced immunity. I was looking for the price and to be close to the metro. Found near metro station Yuzhnaya (Moscow). I will not write the names of the company and the names of the doctors, so as not to be considered advertising. Two doctors with a higher medical education work there. The first day I sat with great apprehension on a chair in the hallway. A lean, elderly and active male patient leaves the office. He looks at me with delight and exclaims: "Good!" I answered him, sorry, that’s good. And he told me 32 bees, good. I almost fell out of my chair there in fright. I'm afraid of insects, I disdain, and here 32 bees and uncle are alive and healthy. I wanted to flee quietly from the corridor, then I became ashamed and stayed. They warned me on the phone that they started with one bee and asked for allergies. When I went into the office in detail about everything asked again, I saw syringes and drugs against allergic shock and calmed down a bit. On the wall hangs a poster listing the diseases in which bees help. The list is really long. Of course, do not think that they help from everything. I was recommended to come three times a week, but I could only two. We started with one bee, then added each time. I didn’t feel the improvement immediately, but after the sixth session. Required minimum 10 times. Transferred the initial procedures hard. And her legs swelled, redness and ran to the pharmacy for anti-allergic pills, took them. The best option was demidrol. After it, it really got better. At the same time, I realized that I was not allergic to bees, but my own individual reaction. After the sixth time, the redness in the bite sites became invisible, and on the second day they completely disappeared. I realized that in my case, the method is effective and useful. I decided to repeat my procedures in about six months. Which I did in December of that year. Yes, she was still treated with leeches in the month of November, which is also not bad. If we compare two such exotic methods of treatment, then the bees turned out to be more useful to me, and even at a price half as expensive as leeches. Out of purely female curiosity, I looked at the cards of patients lying on the table. I did not touch them, they lay on the table with a fan. So this is what only people do not handle, what diseases there are in the world. And go persistently for months.Once will not help. Need to be patient. Yes, and the doctor pulled out the bees with long tweezers. He explained to me that after a bite, they die. Although I do not like insects, at the end of treatment I felt sorry for them. As for bee venom creams, for me it's just a dummy. How many bought them, did not notice a positive effect. Apparently it affects everyone differently. To each his own.
