Apitherapy relates to the use of bee natural products (honey, venom) with medical purposes. This complementary therapy has been practiced since ancient times by various peoples, due to its extremely beneficial effects upon our health.

Nowadays, bee venom is extensively used for preventing and treating arthritis and other inflammations or degenerative diseases. Degenerative diseases are those conditions in which the affected organ or tissue will progressively deteriorate over time, not once and for all. Degenerative conditions are opposed to infectious conditions, as the infectious ones affect our body almost instantly and do not develop over time.

Some degenerative diseases are: Alzheimer's disease, all cancer types, diabetes, heart disease, atherosclerosis, Parkinson's disease, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis etc.

The various benefits of bee venom for our health have been studied by many scientific researchers and even the US army has developed a wide range of investigations in this sense.

This type of therapy is performed by introducing a bee-sized amount of venom into the body by the use of a sting. Rather like when a bee stings us, but the effects of introducing small quantities of venom into our bodies are only positive, never negative.

Bee venom is not introduced all throughout our body, randomly, but on specific points, like the ones used in acupuncture or other critical sites, in order to treat severe health conditions.

Why is bee venom so good for our health? Because of its at least 18 active ingredients. Out of these, melitin is the most important and efficient against inflammations. Melitin is one of the most potent natural anti-inflammatory agents known by man, being a hundred times more powerful than hydrocortisone, for example. Melitin has a miraculous effect upon our immune system, boosting it and stimulating the cortisol producing process. Cortisol is a natural agent of the body's own healing process.

Adolapin is also found in bee venom, another highly potent anti-inflammatory agent and an analgesic too. Adolapin natural substances inhibit cyclooxigenases, which generate prostanoids and they play a regulatory role in inflammatory disease of nasal mucosa and other inflammatory conditions.

Besides melitin and adolapin, there are also other potent ingredients in the bee venom that contribute to the inflammatory - reversing function of this bee product.

Bee venom therapy is successfully used for reducing the symptoms and even treating arthritis and systemic inflammations. The use of venom helps decreasing the chronic pains and also the inflammations. Even systemic inflammations of the joints, such as ulcer colitis or asthma, can be treated with bee venom. In the case of systemic inflammations, the venom stimulates the hypothalamus and helps treating these conditions' symptoms.

Bee venom is also a remedy against acute and chronic lesions, such as tendons inflammations and other wounds from different regions of the body. Back and neck pains can also be cured with this kind of therapy, due to the anti-inflammatory properties of the bee product.

Wounds and scars periodically soaked with bee venom can be completely treated so as to leave no sign on the skin or body. By treating the surface of the skin and body, internal tissues wounds left by surgical interventions can also be cured.

Skin conditions such as eczema, candida, psoriasis, warts, corns etc. can be treated with bee venom therapy. Being an anti-inflammatory and anti-infectious agent, the venom also treats infectious problems such as herpes or other disorders.

But the therapy is performed with high rates of success also in more severe conditions, such as immune system disorders - arthritis, multiple sclerosis - and rheumatological impairments - rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, bursitis.

Besides the anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties of bee venom active ingredients, there are also certain substances in the venom, such as apamin, norepinephrine and dopamine and serotonin classified as neurotransmitters. These substances that enhance nerve transmissions are very beneficial against emotional disorders such as depression, anxiety, mood swings etc.