Tag: bee venom acupuncture

Conditions & Treatment

Bee venom acupuncture therapy ameliorates neuroinflammatory alterations in a pilocarpine-induced epilepticus model.

I’m drawn to these studies using Bee venom.  Somehow it makes sense to me that by using bee venom you enhance the effect of acupuncture by giving a toxin that we evolved with over the millenia.  There is anecdotal success using bee stings for autoimmune conditions, which, again, makes some sense to me, in that…

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Medical Research

Bee Venom at St36 reduces autoimmune encephalomyelitis

  Bee venom has been used traditionally in Chinese Medicine for decades but it seems to be getting more “buzz” lately. (pardon the pun)  This article shows that the bee venom needs to be injected into Stomach 36 for it to work, not in other acupuncture points.  Stomach 36 is the classic point (earth of…

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