A typical bee-l question reached me. What do beeliners know about tenderisers? yours, Johan.Calis@[log in to unmask] ----Forwarded---- Path: news.wau.nl!news.nic.surfnet.nl!howland.reston.ans.net!dish.news .pipex.net!pipex!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!ukc!mango.ukc.ac.uk!G.M.Ta rdivel From: [log in to unmask] (gmt) Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.bio.entomology.misc Subject: Bee sting cure? Date: Thu, 13 Jul 95 09:16:17 GMT Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 29 Sender: [log in to unmask] Distribution: world Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> NNTP-Posting-Host: mango.ukc.ac.uk Xref: news.wau.nl sci.med:47167 sci.bio.entomology.misc:489 A friend, who spends a lot of time working outdoors has given me a newspaper cutting containing a letter describing a bee-sting cure. The writer appears to live in Canada. The cutting recommends a dilution of one teaspoon of meat tenderiser in (about) 50 ml of water. When dabbed on the sting the writer claims the solution will eliminate pain and swelling, and maintain heartbeat and breathing at an ordinary level. The meat tenderiser used by the writer (Adolf's instant meat tenderizer - not a product I've seen in England) contains - salt, sugar, tricalcium phosphate, papain and hydrogenated soybean oil. The tenderizer from my frind's kitchen does not contain tricalcium phosphate. She is eager to try this wonder cure for beestings and would like to know: 1) if anyone can suggest how it might work 2) if the tricacium phosphate would be an important ingredient as a beesting cure I would like to know 3) Are Canadian beestings likely to be of a similar severity to British beestings? Any comments? Thanks Jill Tardivel