What is defined as Integrative Medical Apitherapy?

Apitherapy is a type of alternative therapy that uses products that come directly from honeybees. It’s used to treat illnesses and their symptoms as well as pain from acute and chronic injuries.

Apitherapy has been used for thousands of years. It can be traced back to ancient Egypt and China. The Greeks and Romans used bee products for medicinal purposes as well, where bee venom was used to treat joint pain from arthritis.

Integrative Medical Apitherapy is the application of bee products like honey, pollen, royal jelly and propolis in healing therapies. Of all the substances with which the honey bee provides us, its venom is the most powerful.

Rich in enzymes, peptides and amines, bee venom contains 18 components that have pharmaceutical properties, one of which is melittin, a highly potent anti-inflammatory agent.

This makes bee venom extremely effective in treating orthopedic and neurological problems such as rheumatoid arthritis, back pain, multiple sclerosis and Lyme disease.

The bee venom is administered along the energy meridians near the problem area of the body. While bee venom injections are available, the most dramatic results are achieved when the venom is administered by the bee itself in a controlled environment. Although the itching and swelling will dissipate in a few days, the relief from chronic symptoms is felt immediately.

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Kathryn Cavanagh

My Father was cured of his rheumatoid arthritis by this method many many years ago, by an apiarist using his own bees. So succesfull was the treatment that Dad had to argue with a Doctor many years later, the doc refused to believe Dad had had the disease, the doc got in touch with the Cooma base hospital and they checked through their records and told the Doc that what Dad said was fact. Dad never suffered from rheumatism of any sort for the rest of his long life.

michael d engels

Bees are simply amazing creatures!!! We need to protect them more.

Shirley Dutt

I have a friend that swears by honey as therapy for her allergies. She takes a teaspoon of local honey every morning and she hasn't suffered from her allergies for years. It has to be a local honey for anyone as the bees use locals flowers. If it weren't for bees, we wouldn't have a lot of the food we eat, either.