Tennis elbow is a form of arthritis.  It lasts for months and the 
doctor first gives you a plastic clasp to apply pressure to the tendon 
and eventually, 6 months later, gives you a painful injection of 
cortisone, which cures it rapidly.

The most recent time I was afflicted I recognised it and applied the 
sharp end of a bee to the painful spot and held it there for a full 2 
minutes to get a full dose. It was painful, reddened and swelled for a 
couple of days but then went back to normal, taking the tennis elbow 
with it.  It didn't come back.  I gather the sting stimulates the body 
to produce its own cortisone.

Chris


  

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