Hello dear "Apither" and "Bee" friends,
 
        With great joy I announce you that our proposal to make an
workshop "Apitherapy for Beekeepers - Practical Aspects" at the
next Apimondia Congress (Vancouver, Sept. 99) has been
fully accepted by the Canadian organizers and included already
in the program.
 
        This workshop will be held on Thursday, Sept. 16, in the
evening,
between 19.00 and 22.00 h.
 
        As you may noticed at the last Apimondia Congresses we have
had a very good section of SCIENTIFIC apitherapy.
        Unfortunately, this section was "understandable" mainly by the
medical doctors, biochemists, pharmacists or researchers which knows
this very complex medical apitherapy "language".
 
        My intention, as main organizer of this workshop, is to offer
all of
you an easy to understand intensive "course" (3 hours only!) on what
is really apitherapy and how can this method improve your family's
health and mainly how can apitherapy increase your income.
 
        We will discuss at this workshop as many as possible PRACTICAL
aspects of apitherapy. Here are some of them:
 
        * "where" and "how" to make an "Apitherapy Apiary";
        * what are the best floral sources for health oriented bee
products;
        * what are the (severe) conditions necessary to obtain "raw" bee
products for medicinal use;
        * practical tips;
        * what are the usual final prices for such medicinal bee
products;
        * how to cooperate with your local or international medical
contacts
(medical and naturopathic doctors, Heilpraktikern, doctors on
osteopathy, doctors on chiropractic, acupuncturists etc., etc.) in
order to sell better your products etc., etc.
 
   We will have at this workshop at least one hour of free discussions,
so I hope it will be very interesting and useful for everybody.
 
    Before we will make the final program of this workshop (subjects,
speakers etc.) I will very much appreciate your comments and
suggestions.
 
    So, in your opinion, what should be the main topics of such an
workshop?
 
    As I mentioned sometime before, I hope that EVERY beekeeper
will become in time a very good specialist in apitherapy  too, so
please join our discussion on this subject!
 
 
        Friendly and respectfully yours,
 
    Stefan Stangaciu, MD, LAcup.
    Standing Commission of Apitherapy, Apimondia
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