In essence, each bee is a unique disposable syringe with a medicine and has no analogues in its therapeutic capabilities.
Bee venom positively affects human health, thereby increasing immunity. Bee products include a huge amount of minerals and virtually all vitamins, and also have antimicrobial, radioprotective, antiviral, immunostimulating and antihypoxic properties.
Treatment with bee venom provides for the use of special tables and charts. For each disease, there is a specific zone for the bee stings. The bee venom is a powerful catalyst for almost all physiological processes that occur in the human body.
For apitherapy, it is necessary to use the bites of only live bees. Before you start the procedure, you need to know whether the human body is carrying the poison of the bee. For this, a biological test is carried out. Treatment with bee venom usually lasts from two to four weeks. During apitherapy in the bioactive points of the human body, beekeeping procedures are carried out. For each patient, the specialist individually selects the optimal dose of bee venom. This dose entirely depends on the human disease.
History of Apitherapy
People are treated with bee venom for a very long time. Even on Egyptian papyri, written a couple of millennia ago, the medicinal properties of the bee poison are reflected.
Most drugs, based on honey, propolis and pollen, were produced in Greece, India and ancient Rome. In ancient Greeks, instead of greeting, it was considered a sign of politeness to say: "Let the bee sting you."
Residents of Russia have long treated a variety of diseases with propolis and honey.
It is known for certain that Ivan the Terrible himself treated his gout with the help of bee-keeping.
Honey before the revolution was listed as an official medicine. Doctors often offered it to their patients for treatment in a variety of diseases.
In the USSR, apitherapy was approved by the Ministry of Health at an official level in 1959. In the same year, an instruction appeared on the use of honeybee in medicine. Then in the country they began to professionally teach apitherapists.
Nervous system and apitherapy
On human bee venom, only in small amounts, produces a very exciting effect, and in large numbers, on the contrary, soothes. Bee venom has an excellent anticonvulsant effect, and also effectively helps with pain of different origins. Apitherapy helps with insomnia, improves memory and lifts the mood. It increases cerebral blood flow and reduces brain drain. Bee venom contributes to the reduction of nicotine and alcohol dependence. It helps with osteochondrosis, neuropathy, tremor of extremities, neuritis, stuttering, migraine headaches, tics, phobia, herniated discs, stroke, hysteria, depression, cerebral palsy, parkinsonism, paralysis, paresis, multiple sclerosis and poliomyelitis.
Apitherapy: hemopoietic system and cardiovascular system
The apitherapy method is able to lower arterial pressure and dilate blood vessels.
It helps improve heart function and lower blood cholesterol levels. Also, bee venom is used as an antiaggregant, anticoagulant, and also has an antiarrhythmic effect. The bee venom helps increase the volume of blood. Apitherapy is used for such diseases as angina pectoris, ischemic heart disease, the consequences of myocardial infarction, varicose veins, hypertension, thrombophlebitis of the lower extremities, cardiomyopathy, arrhythmia, anemia and myocarditis.
Respiratory system and apitherapy
Bee venom helps to dilute sputum and expand the bronchi, and also has an expectorant effect. Apitherapy excellently treats bronchial asthma, chronic bronchitis, pneumosclerosis and the effects of pleurisy.
Digestive system and apitherapy
Bee venom stimulates the liver, the peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract, increases the number of digestive enzymes, bile and gastric juice. The bee venom has a good antiulcer effect and can be used for peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum. Just do not use bee venom during exacerbation of cholelithiasis, gastroduodenitis and chronic hemorrhoids.
Musculoskeletal and apitherapy
Apitherapy helps with deforming osteoarthritis, allergic and infectious arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, Bechterew's disease, Dupuytren's contracture and muscle contracture.
Endocrine system and apitherapy
Apitherapy increases the production of corticosteroids by the adrenal glands. This method improves the functioning of the sex glands and thyroid gland, and also helps to reduce blood sugar. It treats type 2 diabetes and thyrotoxic goiter.
Apitherapy helps with eczema, psoriasis, neurodermatitis, dermatitis, as well as with skin itching of any localization.
Bee venom also helps with ophthalmic diseases: progressive farsightedness or nearsightedness, iridocyclitis and glaucoma.
With the genitourinary system, the bee venom treats the menstrual cycle, pathological menopause, chronic adnexitis, hormonal and tubal infertility. In men, the list of cured diseases is as follows: impotence, prostate adenoma, prostatitis.
Contraindications to bee venom treatment:
- intolerance to bee venom;
- pregnancy;
- tuberculosis;
- hepatic, renal failure;
- acute and chronic illness in the period of exacerbation;
- lactation;
- Adison's disease;
- vaccination (during the whole month after the last vaccination).