Muntowib: Bees and Lessons for Humans
P.J. Leo, The Jakarta Post (Indonesia), 6/20/2007
http://apitherapy.blogspot.com/2007/06/patients-flock-to-indonesian-bee-venom.html
Visitors are warmly greeted at the clinic in the Scout Apiary Center in
Cibubur, East Jakarta, where Muntowib, 45, offers bee-sting therapy,
also known as cultivar api-puncture…
Cultivar api-puncture, a healing method dating back to ancient
civilizations, is one of the many alternative treatments mushrooming in
the country. And therapists like Muntowib believe that disease caused by
nervous disorders or blood vessel clogging can be cured with bee venom,
called apitoxin, which stimulates the heart and produces a "warmth"
through the cardiovascular system…
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