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 [log in to unmask] www.sci.fi/~apither