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Indians Use Bee Venom Therapy to Treat Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis
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C Hooper <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 14 May 2008 05:12:57 -0700
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Indians Use Bee Venom Therapy to Treat Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis

Bee Sting-New Treatment Regimen for Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis 
By Anuradha Mascarenhas, The Indian Express, 5/13/2008
http://apitherapy.blogspot.com/2008/05/indians-use-bee-venom-therapy-to-treat.html

While most of us rush to the doctor if stung by a red coloured wasp, there are others who wait for the bee keeper to remove a live bee from its hive with a pair of tweezers, hold it next to the skin and wait for it to sting. And they do it as part of a treatment regimen - apitherapy, the medical use of honeybee products that include the use of honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly and even bee venom... 

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