Researcher Promotes Healing Properties of Bee Products



Buzzing About the Health Benefits of Bee Products

Surprisingly, bee venom, which comes from its sting, can be used to
treat arthritis and multiple sclerosis.

AsiaOne, 12/1/2008

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What is useful for bees can be good for humans too.



Apitherapy - a word with Greek origins - is the use of products produced
by honeybees, such as honey, royal jelly, pollen, propolis and even bee
venom, for therapeutic and pharmacological purposes.



Dr Andreas Daugsch, 33, a German with a PhD in food chemistry, calls
himself an apitherapist. He has studied propolis in Brazil for 11 years.
This is a resinous substance which bees collect from the buds and sap of
certain trees to use as a kind of cement in the construction of their
hives.



He was in Singapore earlier this month to promote the use of apitherapy
as a form of natural healing in a talk at Pharmaplus at Camden Medical
Centre…



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