Published: 07/13/2008 - Updated: 09/22/2018
Every time you see a small be you run away to avoid the sting? Well the next time you see a bee do not feel so bad because
Published: 07/13/2008 - Updated: 09/22/2018
Every time you see a small be you run away to avoid the sting? Well the next time you see a bee do not feel so bad because the alternative medicine therapists around the world recognize that injecting bee venom it is very useful to treat and cure with great success various ailments.
What is Apitherapy?
The use of bee venom to cure diseases is not as old as the use of honey, which was known since antiquity for its great ability to heal various illnesses and infections. However, since 1844, Philip Tertiary, an Austrian doctor who suffered from rheumatism and suffered severe joint pain, found that the picketing of the bee was very beneficial for treating this condition. The accident, like many of the scientific events, was what led to the discovery, being attacked during 24 years by many bees, noted that such an incident from his rheumatic aches and pains disappeared. Motivated by the above, began to spread apitherapy.
The apitherapy is defined as the use of small doses of apitoxin, from live bees in treatments for autoimmune diseases.
This therapy uses bee venom for medicinal purposes and is developing very well in the clinical level, where it acts as an anti-inflammatory, analgesic and immunosuppressive.
The apitherapy is recommended in cases of:
- Muscle aches
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Disease diagnosis is critical as multiple sclerosis.
What does bee venom contain?
Bee venom is a set of biologically active and very fragile substances. The poison solution breaks down and becomes infected by bacteria easily while light, oxygen and temperature dehydrate and degrade in a few hours. Therefore, the picket bee is the most effective way to control the amount and quality of venom just because this would prevent their effective enzymes to break down by environmental effects.
It contains three enzymes that confer its anti-inflammatory properties: the apamine, pain suppressant, peptide 401, and anti melitine, which helps the immune system to recognize and not to attack the joints, as in the case of arthritis.
The apitoxin, 