The Power of the Bee: The Book of Apitherapy

© 2020 by Dr. Thomas Gloger

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The contents of this book are intended purely for general information and education. They do not constitute a recommendation or application of diagnostic methods or of any treatment methods described or mentioned. The text in this book is in no way a substitute for professional advice from a doctor, pharmacist or other professional medical practitioner, and may not be used as a basis for independent diagnosis or the initiation, modification or treatment of disease. If you have any health questions or complaints, consult a doctor or alternative practitioner of your choice. The author and publisher assume no liability for inconvenience or damage resulting from the use of the information presented here. The assertion of claims of any kind is excluded.

About the author

Dr. Thomas Gloger is a frequent expert contributor at international conferences in the field of apitherapy. His knowledge and experience of bee products has been gained over more than a decade, including his own trials and research. He was educated at the prestigious Technical University of Munich and spent 25 years in the chemical industry in various management positions. His fascination and love for bees arose out of his fascination with chemistry. Now his beehives are his pharmacy.

Bee bread (Perga, left below) is one of the most valuable bee products.

CONTENT

Cover

Impressum

FOREWORD:

THE BEES AND ME

INTRODUCTION:

CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE MEETS ALTERNATIVES

HONEY:

VARIETIES AND APPLICATION

THE HONEY MASSAGE:

ACTIVATING AND DETOXIFYING

POLLEN AND PERGA:

BEE BREAD AS AN ENERGY SNACK

ROYAL JELLY:

ROYALLY VALUABLE

APILARNIL:

MORE APITHERAPY DOES NOT WORK

PROPOLIS:

THE BEST OF PLANT AND ANIMAL

THE FIELDS OF APPLICATIONS OF PROPOLIS

BEE VENOM:

A BRIEF HISTORY OF BEE VENOM

AN EXCURSION INTO THE BIOCHEMISTRY

THE BEE VENOM THERAPY (BVT)

THE APPLICATION AS A BEE STING

HOMEOPATHIC BEE VENOM PREPARATIONS

BEESWAX:

MUCH MORE THAN JUST CANDLES

HIVE AIR:

BENEFICIAL AND HEALTHY

WAX MOTHS:

ROOMMATES WHO CLEAN UP

SPECIAL CASES AND APPLICATION HINTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

THE BEES AND ME

Bees and honey - a gift of God for mankind? Yes, practically all cultures see it that way. There are numerous references in Indian culture on the subject of honey and bees. Anyone who visits the Vatican will discover a number of bee symbols on the buildings, thereby demonstrating the elevated status of the beehive and, with it, creation in general. The Koran formulates it most vividly and recommends using bee products in the treatment of human beings.

WHY ARE HUMANS SO FASCINATED BY BEES?

WHY DO THEY FASCINATE ME SO MUCH?

Bees are the only insects that can warm their nest themselves.

Their temperature and thus their living conditions as well as their enemies and opponents are similar to those of humans. The beehive as a human pharmacy? It can be seen in this way, because the bee's defence mechanisms are similarly constructed to that of the human immune system.

Also, because bees rely on the much longer evolution of plants, they use the evolutionary successes of the plants that surround them for their own defence.

I have always been fascinated by the highly ordered lives of bees and, of course, by their honey production. I wanted to make biology a living experience for my children. How? I proudly planted some fruit trees that were to be naturally pollinated by bees. Over time I have dealt more and more intensively with bees and discovered case studies and first-hand accounts about how effective bee products are. Then I met my good friend Miljen Bobic, a passionate beekeeper with Bosnian roots.

To this day, the fascination he aroused in me, has never left me and I have over the years become an expert myself, gained through first-hand experience. I am a natural scientist by nature; a chemist through and through. This was an advantage for my research because I quickly learned to separate the wheat from the chaff. I recognised early on that bee products have a very wide range of potential applications and that traditions and lore on this subject go back much further than most beekeepers are aware of. Unfortunately, all traditions have been lost in Germany but fortunately, not in other countries. In Eastern Europe and South America, I have discovered many references to it and I want to continue that in this book, by contributing to raising empirical medicine to a new, higher scientific level. This is currently happening in various Arab countries but also in Romania, South Korea and Indonesia. Recently, intensive research has also been carried out at universities in Turkey on bee and natural products in general.

In the end, empirical medicine can only discover the gold on the surface. With the help of science, deep drillings will be made at some point and the gold in the depths will also be brought to light. It will once again completely re-order our understanding of the effects of bee products. But we can already, now, use the knowledge we have. This knowledge grows, thrives, changes. An interactive cycle.

Is empirical medicine unscientific? Some people say so. But it is exactly what has made humanity progress for thousands of years and what distinguishes it: collecting experiences, checking them for correctness, passing on the results, incorporating new experiences. Unfortunately, science today is also used as a weapon. Public discourse is deliberately controlled, rules are postulated about what is and what is not scientific. Let everyone form their own opinion on this.

My friend Ed Unger from B-Y's (pronounced bee-wise) Honey Farm at Niagara Falls advises everyone to have a beehive as a medicine cabinet behind the house. He himself comes from a family of beekeepers with long German and South American roots.

For beekeepers and non-beekeepers alike, I have compiled my experiences from the past years here. For this book you neither need a beehive behind your house, nor do you have to be a beekeeper. What you need is a certain openness for new findings and above all determination to be responsible for your life and to take care of your health yourself. Then you can learn a great deal about bee products and apitherapy on the following pages - in other words, how to keep yourself healthy or get healthy again. I wish you a lot of pleasure.

INTROUCTION

CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE MEETS ALTERNATIVES

So-called orthodox medicine likes to see itself as evidence-based medicine and a general saviour. In contrast to academic circles, where medical doctors are traditionally not counted among scientists such as physicists or engineers, it is precisely this conventional medicine that has a large share of empirical knowledge and wealth of experience. A doctor generally has a good reputation if he or she has many years of experience.

Homeopathy is currently the subject of massive public debate. But if you ask me, they have missed the point. A scatter gun approach is not appropriate, but rather differentiation, because natural remedies are very diverse. Homeopathy is only a small part of this spectrum.

The different procedures include, for example, bloodletting, Ayurveda, acupuncture, acupressure, Bach flowers, bio-resonance, leech therapy, TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), foot reflexology, phytotherapy, aromatherapy, lymph drainage, singing bowl therapy, wraps and compresses as well as spinal therapy according to Dorn. What they all have in common? The appropriate treatment is individually tailored to each patient and is not applied according to the needs of an average person.

The invention of this average person and statistical averaging, as it is usually practised in orthodox medicine, is a very successful procedure, but regularly reaches its limits. For example, chemotherapy is used for the treatment of aggressive pancreatic cancer. This is paid for by the health insurance company on the basis of evidence. What is the benefit for the patient if you take a closer look at the statistics? A few more days of life, which he pays for with weeks of agonising chemotherapy. The problem with standard patients: individual deviations, which each of us shows, are neglected. Medical tests, which are regularly done mainly with young men between 19 and 29 years of age, are only transferable to older people to a limited extent - and for women in different phases of the cycle they are often not meaningful at all.

Of course, conventional medicine offers us excellent analysis and anamnesis techniques. It determines the blood count, uses X-rays or MRI images and, thanks to further laboratory tests, provides a fairly complete picture of the state of health. Of course, there are very good doctors or even veterinarians who, by the way, cannot speak to their patients. My special admiration goes to the TCM doctors who, just by analysing the tongue and pulse and closely observing their patient, can get a very complete picture of his or her state of health within a very short time and without much fuss.

Nevertheless, observe yourself regularly. Pay attention to your own well-being. Do not overrate medical analyses. People are different. A value that is too high for one person can be quite normal for another.

CROSS CONNECTIONS: THE FIVE ELEMENTS

What is striking about all the essential bee products we use in apitherapy? They occupy all the elements of the five-element theory of Chinese medicine.

In this world view honey corresponds to the element earth.

Propolis, hive air and beeswax correspond to the element metal.

Royal jelly and Apilarnil correspond to the element water.

Pollen, perga and beebread correspond to the element wood.

Bee venom corresponds to the element fire.

In this system we speak of transformation phases. The elements are partly opposites and transform into each other. This helps us in apitherapy. For example, people who are allergic to bee venom should eat honey and propolis and not avoid them because this will reduce their allergy to bee venom in the long term. And an acute bee sting can easily be dabbed with propolis tincture because propolis and alcohol from the tincture combat bee venom.

BEE STING MEETS ACUPUNCTURE

When treating with bee stings, it is very valuable to know the acupuncture points and also the corresponding pathways. Some sources claim that bee stings have added to the knowledge of acupuncture. What I do know is that when bees sting me unexpectedly, within fractions of a second, they choose a point that is much more painful than if I had stung myself somewhere nearby. Apparently, the bees have a sense for finding corresponding points of pain.

THE HONEY MASSAGE

We perform the honey massage on the largest area of the body, the back. The back area is divided into so-called Head zones. Each of these zones corresponds to internal organs and during the massage provides information about the state of health and possible current complaints of the patient. Knowing the acupuncture points or Head's zones help in apitherapy and the use of bee products. If several naturopathic treatments are combined, their effects can be mutually reinforcing. This significantly accelerates healing and recovery.

UNEXPECTEDLY EFFECTIVE: FROM MICROBIOME AND GLYPHOSATE

Microbiome are communities of bacteria. We carry them in our intestines, in our body cavities, on the skin, on the heart valves and their healing effect has recently been the subject of spectacular findings. For example, overweight people lost more than 30 kilograms after being given microbiome of a slim person.

Do we have only a limited view of what nature means? So it seems. Obviously, bacteria contribute more to our well-being than we are aware of. They have been living in our bodies for a very long time, and they certainly have a benefit. But we humans have fought these microbes with all our might. The results of this are masses of resistant germs, such as MRSA, which first emerged in hospitals.

What if bacteria like the microbiome are vital for our survival? Shouldn't we then treat them with reverence instead of simply eradicating this creation of nature, just because we have failed to understand how valuable they are? Pretty short-sighted, isn’t it? By the way, this also applies to viruses, of which we still carry ten times more than bacteria.

The view of glyphosate is similarly short-sighted. It is extremely effective in eliminating unwanted field herbs. They soon wilt away, and the field is weed-free. It is harmless to humans, but the discovery of the microbiome changed this assessment fundamentally. If humans take glyphosate via beer from appropriately contaminated wheat fields, a variety of bacteria in our microbiome are killed. Now it could be reciprocated; the exact same thing happens when we take antibiotics if we are ill. If this is because of a life-threatening pneumonia, then it can be justified. Glyphosate, however, has become an everyday threat, as has the standard use of antibiotics in intensive livestock farming. The diversity of our microbiome is permanently attacked by the virtually unconscious and permanent ingestion of glyphosate. So, it is no wonder that autoimmune diseases, for example, have increased dramatically since the mass use of glyphosate. What makes it even worse is that glyphosate is produced with an enhancer.