Showing posts with label bee venom as medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bee venom as medicine. Show all posts

Saturday, June 3, 2017

This Cure Is Gonna Hurt...!

Sometimes the cure for a particular ailment is more painful than it should be, ya know? Maybe that's because it's supposed to!

Bee Venom For Herpes



Known officially as apitherapy, the practice of using bee venom to treat medical conditions like rheumatism goes back for thousands of years, some believe as far as ancient Greece. So you would think that it’s something that would have been phased out at least a few hundred years ago, but that’s not the case.

Bee venom has recently been used by hospitals around the world as a treatment for arthritis, tendonitis, and herpes, among others. The treatment itself also varies: Some doctors will prescribe milked bee venom, while others will literally sting the patient with a live bee.

Interestingly enough, there has been a lot of research recently in the Western world for bee venom as a potential cure for cancer. So who knows, maybe it’s not as ridiculous as it might seem.

I'm thinking that this is one case where the cure is more painful that the ailment. I may be wrong, but I don't think I'll take the pain test to find out!

Coffee in the kitchen again this morning. Still wanting to rain outside.