Bee acids. Apitherapy is a branch of alternative medicine that uses honey bee products, including raw honey, royal jelly, pollen, propolis, beeswax and apitoxin (Bee venom). The claim that apitherapy treats cancer, which some proponents of apitherapy make, remains unsupported by evidence-based medicine. The painful stings of bees are mostly associated with the poison gland and the Dufour's gland which are abdominal exocrine glands containing various chemicals. In "Lasioglossum leucozonium", the Dufour's Gland mostly contains octadecanolide as well as some eicosanolide. There is also evidence of n-triscosane, n-heptacosane, and 22-docosanolide. However, the secretions of these glands could also be used for
The Venom Trees of Sunga Venom Trees of Sunga" definitively places Kukulkan in the "Viagens" universe. Roland J. Green, writing for the "Chicago Sun-Times", called the book "light without being fluffy ... [w]itty and briskly paced, with a number of digs at the New Age world-view." The Venom Trees of Sunga The Venom Trees of Sunga is a science fiction novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, the twelfth book in his "Viagens Interplanetarias" series and the second in its subseries of stories set on the fictional planet Kukulkan. It was first published in paperback by Del Rey Books in November 1992. An E-book