Before attempting BVT ( Bee Venom Therapy). Care should be taken to be sure the patient is not allergic to bee stings. Allow only one bee to sting the patient in the back near the spine and have an emergency phone number on hand in case of shock

Bee venom therapy is the practice of taking bees and allowing these bees to sting victims. The people being stung are victims of various health afflictions; Multiple Scelerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, arthritis and even cancer.

Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine used bee venom to treat his patients that were struggling with arthritis or other bone disease.

A pioneer of aptiherapy (or bee therapy) was Charles Mraz of Middlebury, Vermont. He recently passed away, but not before leaving his legacy of how to apply bee products to promote good health.

Charles was a master beekeeper and for more than 60 years he helped others suffering various aliments by introducing bee venom therapy, along with of other bee products to relieve pain and restore movement to muscles that were atrophied.

How does bee venom therapy work?

When the bee stings the patient, it releases its venom into the system. This venom has been shown to contain a number of anti-inflammatory properties that when introduced into the patient prompts the patient to produce cortisol.

Cortisol is a steroid hormone that the body’s adrenal glands manufacture. Purported to have more impact on the body, and less side effects than hydrocortisone; cortisol releases into the body reducing inflammation and lowering the pain associated with inflamed muscles.

The bees are kept alive is a small jar with some honey at the bottom of the jar, and some tissue under the honey (so the bees don’t drown) Everyday, the person getting treatments is supposed to spritz the bees with water. Prior to treatment, the jar is placed in the refrigerator, making the bees sluggish. Then a bee is taken out with a pair of tweezers and placed on the body of the patient and provoked to sting.

Although there is skepticism for bee therapy by the medical community, recipients of this daily sting therapy are singing their praises. Some are recording movements in joints long thought useless. Multiple Sclerosis patients embrace the pain of bee therapy, for as one lady who had this treatment told me:

“At least the pain lets me know I am still alive!"