Honey and Bee Venom Healing

Bee is an incredible insect. Pain from it's stingy and it's derivative product helps to heal several desease, from allergy to nerve interference, and endurance improvement. The therapy using bee and it's product is called apitherapy.

The words aphitherapy is taken from 2 latin words, aphis means bee and therapy means medical treatment. Aphitherapy defined as complementer medical treatment for preventif, curatif and rehabilitation using bee and its derivative product.

The use of honey bee for health was known from thousand years ago. The eldest evidence about honey used for skin infection and wound, ulcer, eyes and ear desease was written on the Samarian ceramics (2000 BC)

The Eber papyrus (1550 BC) write some honey recipes for outer use, like baldyness, burned injury, abses and reducing agonies. Honey also used to heal after surgery wounded, including circumsision, supositorhya, reducing inflammation, and overcome for nerve ungainly.

The use of bee stunt for nerve agonies therapy and artritis already done by Greeks for long time. The pioneer is Hippocrates, the father of modern medical treatment.

Apipuntur

In 1864, Prof Libowsky reported his patient healed over from their rheumatics and neuralgic pain after being therapics using bee stunt. The teraphi's using bee stunt is recognised as Apipunctur. Apipunctur using bee venom and acupunctur methode. The bee's for this therapy is Apis mellifera dan Apis cerana.

Dr. Adji Suranto Sp.A tells that bee venom is very good to normalised all blood vessel and nerve activity. "Research shows that bee venom contain melitine, apamin, peptide 401 (MDC), protease inhibitor, and norepinephrine.

On this therapy, said Dr. Adjie, bee venom getting inside to the human body using two different ways, direct bee sting and injected.

"The bee venom taken from someones pure antibody who is often being stunt by bee" He said. The quantity of the sting is depent to the desease. But one sting in special spots is enough for introduction. "On the next therapy, those spots is stunt again, but not over than 10 times" says this father of one child.

Pregnant women, baby, kids and old person wasn't suggested to use this therapy.

But anyway, this therapy shouldn't do without the trained person or the expert supervision.

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