New Breakthrough–Bee Venom Acupuncture Shows Promise In Parkinson’s
On WebMD, Date at June 18, 2014 — Both acupuncture and bee-venom acupuncture improved symptoms in people with Parkinson’s disease, a small study shows.
Acupuncture has been used in Asia for many years. Studies have shown that it can help protect nerve cells like the nerve cells destroyed by diseases and reduce the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Researchers have also been studying whether bee venom can relieve nerve cell inflammation. This is one of the first studies to test whether acupuncture and bee venom acupuncture can help Parkinson’s disease.
How Bee-Venom Acupuncture Might Help and what is Bee venom acupuncture？
Humans use the stinging organs of bees as needles to perform different methods of acupuncture along the meridian skin and acupuncture points to prevent and treat diseases, which is called bee venom therapy. The liquid medicine of the bee needle can be automatically injected into the human body.
Some Parkinson’s symptoms include muscle spasms that can cause pain and trouble moving. Bee venom may help relax these muscles.
In this study, 35 Parkinson’s disease patients who had received a stable dose were randomly divided into three groups. One group received acupuncture, the other received bee venom acupuncture, and the third group did not. The final study showed that the symptoms of patients receiving bee venom acupuncture or conventional acupuncture improved, and there were no serious side effects in both groups, while the symptoms of those who did not receive treatment did not change.
The results are promising, but more research is needed before drawing any firm conclusions.
These findings were presented at a medical conference, They should be considered preliminary as they have not yet undergone the “peer review” process.
For further reports and experiments, please wait for us to update.
Reference link:
https://www.webmd.com/parkinsons-disease/news/20140618/bee-venom-acupunture-parkinsons.
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Bee Venom Therapy May Bring New Hope To Arthritis Patients
Bee venom therapy is a traditional therapy with bee venom that originated in Greece and China and popularly used in several Asian countries and is becoming more and more popular all over the world. Proponents claim that it helps relieve chronic pain, inflammation, and more. However, are its claimed benefits supported by science?
In Asian folk medicine, acupoint bee sting therapy is traditionally used to treat arthritis. The NCBI article is titled “Therapeutic Effects of Bee Venom on Immunological and Neurological Diseases”
The effect of bee venom is explained in detail.
（Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4516920/）
Two other trials found that bee venom therapy can reduce joint swelling, tenderness and stiffness, and effectively improve health.
link:1.https://www.koreascience.or.kr/article/JAKO200326662305853.page?&lang=en 2.koreascience.or.kr/article/JAKO200326662306234.page)
According to the “BMJ Open” research report published in 2014, bee therapy may help treat rheumatoid arthritis. The trial compared bee venom acupuncture therapy with a placebo. The bee treatment was more effective in reducing pain, morning stiffness, joint pain and joint swelling, and also improved the quality of life of arthritis patients.
(Link:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/4/11/e006140)
Christopher Kim, medical director of the Monmouth Pain Institute in Red Bank, N.J., said that bee venom therapy has existed for thousands of years. References on treatment can be found in ancient Egyptian and Greek medical writings. Also known as apitherapy, this technique is more widely used in Eastern Europe, Asia and South America.
All in all, the results are encouraging, although bee venom therapy is largely unproven,
But it is also enough to prove that patients with rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis can use bee venom therapy. We also need more and more robust clinical trials to confirm these preliminary results.
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New Study Shows – Bee Venom Kills Some Breast Cancer Cells
We know that bees have always been sought after by humans, especially the natural sweet honey they produce. There are many beekeepers in the world who make a living by keeping bees and collecting honey. But bees are also the object of doctors’ attention. Almost all doctors in the world think bees have very important medicinal value.
A recent study found that the venom secreted by bees can actually cure breast cancer!
Many news websites and TV channels have reported that bee venom can kill breast cancer cells. Is it so magical? Does the little bee have such a powerful effect?
The research was conducted by the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research in Australia. The study tested the venom extracted from more than 300 bees and bumblebees.
Honeybees secrete melittin-research has found that the ingredient melittin found in bee venom is actually the cause of effective anti-cancer. Scientific research has found that this venom can act as a toxin for a variety of tumors, including those commonly seen in melanoma, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, and pancreatic cancer. This particular venom compound has proven to be effective against two types of breast cancer that are very difficult to treat-“triple-negative” and “HER2 rich”.
Research conducted also found that if used in small amounts, the venom of bees does not actually affect surrounding cells. Although there is basically no proper treatment for cancer, this discovery can definitely be considered exciting, because cancer kills thousands of people every year.
Dr. Miele has been conducting breast cancer research for decades. He said that in this study, bee venom not only killed breast cancer cells in the laboratory, but even gave them to some mice with breast cancer cells, and proved that it can indeed kill the mice. Breast cancer tumors. This particular substance is not ready for prime time in clinical practice. Scientists will need to conduct a lot of animal research.
Scientists are now working to increase the capacity of the compound and look forward to testing bee venom in human cancers. Scientists hope that this natural compound will be more effective in fighting breast cancer in the human body.
What is your opinion on this exciting discovery?
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Bee Venom Cures The Skin And Reduces Wrinkles
NCBI -“The beneficial effects of honeybee-venom serum on facial wrinkles in humans” explained in detail that facial wrinkles are caused by external light damage and internal aging process and evaluated the beneficial effects of bee venom serum on clinical signs of aging skin. The results show that bee venom serum treatment can improve facial wrinkles by reducing the total wrinkle area, total wrinkle number and average wrinkle depth. Therefore, bee venom serum may be effective in improving skin wrinkles.
All experimental procedures used in the present study were approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee at the National Academy of Agricultural Science (NAAS), South Korea. This study used 22 women for a 12-week study to show that using facial essence containing bee venom twice a day can significantly reduce the depth of wrinkles and the total number of wrinkles.
The research shows Formulation of bee-venom serum, South Korean wrinkle-grading system*, Representative facial images and replicas of wrinkle improvement in the crow’s feet area at baseline and after 4, 8, and 12 weeks of bee-venom serum use,Subject self-assessment of bee-venom serum attributes after 4, 8, and 12 weeks’ treatment.
The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the clinical effect of bee venom serum by objectively measuring clinical wrinkles by using a device that converts wrinkle roughness into numerical values. This is the first clinical study to determine the effect of bee venom cosmetics on human skin and facial wrinkles. In this study, we found that bee venom serum treatment can improve facial wrinkles by reducing total wrinkle area, total wrinkle number and average wrinkle depth.
When skin bacteria are incubated with bee venom, the bacteriostatic effect of bee venom is proved, and its anti-inflammatory activity on skin bacteria by inhibiting the secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines further proves this effect. As a cosmetic ingredient, bee venom can be used as a topical medicine to promote skin regeneration or treat certain epidermal diseases.
Therefore, the application of bee venom is very extensive. If you want to learn more about bee venom, welcome to communicate with us.
(Reference link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4598227/)
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