NATURE MADE
The Buzz on Apitherapy
By Mark Isaac Thyss
Garden of Healing®
You’d have to get as busy as a bee in order to taste all the available natural therapies out there.
This one’s appealing: apitherapy, the science of honey, so-to-speak.
The Buzz on Apitherapy
By Mark Isaac Thyss
Garden of Healing®
You’d have to get as busy as a bee in order to taste all the available natural therapies out there.
This one’s appealing: apitherapy, the science of honey, so-to-speak.
Could apitherapy be the perfect holistic treatment? Take a closer look.
Apitherapy is the use of bee products to promote health. Products include raw honey, royal jelly, pollen, propolis, bee wax and bee venom.
Raw honey, nutrition - and bee venom?
Aside from cooking, honey has other more unfamiliar uses; it’s an anti-bacterial and can be used for dressing wounds and burns to keep them sterile and promote healing. Nice, but most people would probably rather eat it.
Honey is made by bees from flower nectar; it contains trace amounts of many vitamins and minerals.
In terms of your health, honey’s claims seem to be proving true. Honey has significant anti-microbial properties, and is a potent anti-oxidant. Choose the darker varieties, like buckwheat honey.
Apitherapy is actually a branch of alternative medicine. It is used by apitherapists to treat a wide range of medical conditions ranging from arthritis and chronic pain to serious medical conditions like cancer and stroke.
Honey is good for you - people have been consuming it since antiquity. Although there is scant scientific evidence to support health claims, the way we see it, how could you lose with apitherapy? No matter what you choose to do with honey therapeutically, you could always just eat the stuff.
Leave the venom for the apitherapist!
© 1996-2009 Mark Isaac Thyss/Garden of Healing®. All rights reserved.
For more articles about natural health and healing, please visit:
http://www.thegardenofhealing.com/
Apitherapy is the use of bee products to promote health. Products include raw honey, royal jelly, pollen, propolis, bee wax and bee venom.
Raw honey, nutrition - and bee venom?
Aside from cooking, honey has other more unfamiliar uses; it’s an anti-bacterial and can be used for dressing wounds and burns to keep them sterile and promote healing. Nice, but most people would probably rather eat it.
Honey is made by bees from flower nectar; it contains trace amounts of many vitamins and minerals.
In terms of your health, honey’s claims seem to be proving true. Honey has significant anti-microbial properties, and is a potent anti-oxidant. Choose the darker varieties, like buckwheat honey.
Apitherapy is actually a branch of alternative medicine. It is used by apitherapists to treat a wide range of medical conditions ranging from arthritis and chronic pain to serious medical conditions like cancer and stroke.
Honey is good for you - people have been consuming it since antiquity. Although there is scant scientific evidence to support health claims, the way we see it, how could you lose with apitherapy? No matter what you choose to do with honey therapeutically, you could always just eat the stuff.
Leave the venom for the apitherapist!
© 1996-2009 Mark Isaac Thyss/Garden of Healing®. All rights reserved.
For more articles about natural health and healing, please visit:
http://www.thegardenofhealing.com/
