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Bee Therapy | National Geographic


today in Taiwan people from all walks of
life are choosing to be stunned by bees
often dozens of times in one sitting
Cho Rong Chen is battling multiple
sclerosis a disease which slowly causes
the body’s nerve to deteriorate or
six-month I was bedridden I could not
move I would have symptoms of her
tingling and numbness in my hands it was
excruciating pain then show Rong heard
about bee sting therapy for help she
turned to mr. Cheng Yi Chen bee sting
therapy master a trained master who has
practiced bee sting therapy for 12 years
every week mr. Chen and his assistants
treat 200 patients and sacrifice 6000
honeybees the results he says can be
astounding after 600 bees you look five
years younger than your contemporaries
but can be stings really help show wrong
fight multiple sclerosis she began an
intensive course of therapy receiving
over 200 stings a week for months on end
honey bees only sting once and they died
soon after
but even separated from the bee the
stinger continues to inject venom into
its victim
the body responds with a flood of
histamines and white blood cells and
soon the area becomes hot red swollen
and itchy he gives me one steam I don’t
even have time to feel the pain before
he stinks me again and the pan lasts for
one hour
many think it is based on the five
thousand-year-old practice of
acupuncture a proven treatment for pain
although today mr. Chen sees bee
acupuncture as a labor of love even he
once considered it taboo in fact like
most of us he was afraid of bees thirty
years ago mr. Chen was an executive for
a textiles company then his wife began
to suffer from arthritic pain so severe
she couldn’t cook or even stand up
straight Western medicines didn’t do
much good but when she told her husband
she wanted to get stung by bees he
thought the idea was ridiculous
naturally as an educated man I was
against it we just did not understand
bees but mr. Chen completely changed his
mind when he saw his wife’s sudden
improvement after three months her red
blood cell count increased her headache
disappeared I was so surprised I decided
to dive into this mysterious treatment
and collect all the information that it
could mr. Chen vowed to devote his life
to bringing bee sting therapy to others
after six months of beasting therapy
show Rong Chen has seen a dramatic
change she insists the therapy has
relieved her multiple sclerosis and
given her a new lease on life
while most Western trained doctors would
likely say her illness is in remission
Cho Rong is convinced the stings have
helped her walk again it will take years
of study before we’ll know whether bee
stings can relieve arthritis or multiple
sclerosis or even the common cold
but whether show wrongs recovery is in
her head or her hands and feet for the
first time in more than a year she feels
she can resume living a therapy most of
us would find taboo is allowing her to
face the future with renewed hope
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