"We may be qualified by experience to handle bees but few of us are qualified in diagnosis and it is unlikely that any patient would be." A very good point. In this part of the world any treatment with bee venom (injection or live bees) can only be administered by a medical doctor registered with the Ministry of Health. The use of bee venom treatment is believed to go back many thousands of years in China, its use is well documented (in Chinese). The same treatment points that are used for acupuncture needles are used to administer bee stings. Indeed it has been suggested that bee sting treatment was the precursor to acupuncture with acupuncture emerging when the technology to make needles evolved. *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm