Bees are full of treasures. Honey and bee pupae are edible, and beeswax can be made into daily chemical products. In the medical field, bee needles and bee venom are “secret treasures” with little known medicinal value. The Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the First People’s Hospital is unconventional and innovatively launched a set of “bee medicated diet therapy”!
Primary school student Xiaomei has a large area of red rash on arms and legs due to low immunity, itching and festering, which affects normal life.
Xiaomei: It started around December last year (rash).
Reporter: Have you seen many hospitals?
Xiaomei: Yes.
Reporter: Are they not very effective?
Xiaomei: Yes, there is hormone medicine in it, and after touching it (stopping the medicine), it grows back.
After searching for a doctor in many places to no avail, Xiaomei’s parents heard that “bee acupuncture” was effective, so they took her to try it.
Xiaomei: They use bees to needle these (rashes) places and then wax them.
Reporter: Do you think your situation has eased?
Xiaomei: Yes (improved), it was very red before, and the previous medicine also damaged the surrounding skin and burned it. Some places started to grow new skin after apitherapy.
Have you heard of using live bees for acupuncture? Don’t be surprised, this therapy is not only effective for chronic dermatological diseases, but also suitable for allergic rhinitis, bronchial asthma, headache in internal medicine; surgical ganglion cyst, fibroma; gynecology, pediatrics, bone and joint diseases, etc. There are therapeutic or adjuvant effects.
Chen Wenbin said that the bees selected for bee acupuncture therapy are also very particular, and only bees that have passed strict screening can be used, and the bees must be used before use. Drinking traditional Chinese medicine for a period of time can “work”.
Chen Wenbin, head of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Huizhou First People’s Hospital: We use Chinese bees. After these live bees come in, we will give them to the bees. Feeding some traditional Chinese medicine has the effect of attenuating poison. It does not mean that bees caught in the wild are used for treatment.