Bee Venom Therapy – wellness on two wings or wishful thinking?
Bee venom therapy – is it really a thing?
In a nutshell, bee venom therapy uses what you might have guessed – be venom. Administration is not a mystery. All you need to do is that thing most people try to avoid – get stung by a bee!
Honey bees don’t like to sting as a rule, because every time a honey bee stings is their last time. Their stinger is barbed and stays in the skin of the person or creature stung. The bee then dies. This is a case of everyone involved being a victim!
That is, unless you want to get stung, which is exactly what you want if you are using bee venom therapy.
Many people are a little bit (or a lot) afraid of getting stung by a bee. The reality is, you can carry bees around on your hand all day without being stung, as long as you let them land or you or are very gentle about coaxing them onto your hand. I regularly rescue bees that have fallen into water and let them sit on my hand to dry out.
In order to be stung for bee venom therapy, you need to bother the bee enough to get it to sting you. Laying your arm or hand on it is usually plenty of bother. But be aware that after a bee has stung you, it will die. It literally gives its life to give you your therapy!
Some kinder souls actually take the bee after it stings them and hold it briefly under water to haste its demise and thereby end its suffering.
Follow the links for all the information you should need on bee venom therapy.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/bee-venom-therapy-update/
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