Believe It or Not Getting Stung By Bees Can Be Good For You

"As a beekeeper," Konni says "getting stung by bees isn’t much fun," "no surprise," she says "that many people are terrified of being stung."

However Konni gets stung all the time and while that isn’t enjoyable and she doesn’t like having to pull stingers out of her skin, she thanks the bees for the medicine they provide with every bee sting. Konni has learned that despite the pain that comes with getting stung, what people don’t know is that a bee sting can actually help improve your health.

She feels confident getting stung is one of the reasons why she has such overall good health. Because here’s the good news: it has incredible medicinal properties backed by science!

The scientific name for bee venom is apitoxin, and its main component is melittin. This is the beneficial compound causing quite a stir.

Bee sting therapy, called apitherapy, is part of an alternative medicine that uses products derived from honeybees.

Why is bee venom so important? Well for one thing it has health properties that can’t be denied. It has been used for both humans and animal health for thousands of years.  

Bee venom therapy has origins tracing back to ancient Egypt and Greece. Hippocrates, who is know as the father of all medicine, used bee venom for its medicinal properties; and it has been used across various cultures for at least 3,000 years. Uses included treating arthritis and inflammation. Modern interest was renewed in the late 19th century, and it has been explored and used in different forms, from direct stings to injections, ever since. 

In more recent times, Beekeepers have learned how to collect and harvest bee venom without someone getting stung. That means, you can now get the awesome benefits of bee venom without any suffering or death to the honeybee.

Without going into great detail, here are some of the healthy things bee venom is known for: being anti-inflammatory, providing substantial pain relief and having amazing antioxidant properties.

What this means is, small doses of bee venom can be used to help give relief in conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lyme disease, chronic nerve pain and more.

The venom is known to fight many different kinds of infections. Additionally, laboratory studies have shown that the melittin in the venom can kill a number of different types of cancer cells including breast, cervical, prostate, and liver.

Other potential uses are for people with Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes. It’s also being used topically to treat skin conditions such as acne and psoriasis.

All this has Konni really investigating bee venom and other hive products. She has no doubt that she has found the ones that are made with the highest quality and healing benefits. You can check them out in store and online very soon.

P.S. Besides bee venom, we haven’t said anything about the other things that come from bees that are used in Apitherapy, like pollen, propolis, royal jelly and of course raw honey.

There is so much more to learn and we could tell you more about apitherapy and alternative hive medicine, but we’ll save that for another time.

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