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Bee stings can treat illness?

In the Tui Na Ward of Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, dozens of bees are flying inside a transparent glass box. Amazingly, these bees are not display. In fact, they are the doctors’ trusted assistants.

How? Believe it or not, bee stings can actually treat various illnesses and thousands of patients have already benefited from this unusual treatment method!

She Ruitao, a traditional Chinese medicine doctor from the department introduced the principle behind “bee stings therapy” as “fighting poison with poison”.


“We basically let bees sting acupuncture points on the human body and use the bee venom released to treat the illness”, said doctor Yu.

Aunt Zhan is a 51-year-old who has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for a long time. She constantly suffers from a lot of pain and can’t take care of herself.

She has recently undergone “bee sting therapy” at the Shenzhen Traditional Medicine Hospital. After being stung at each acupoint on the back, waist, hands and feet, the treatment is finished.

Doctors need to quickly fish a bee out with tweezers and apply it to a specific acupoint, which takes a lot of skill.

Her symptoms have greatly lessened after treatments. Aunty Zhan now is able to walk a long way everyday.


The clinic for bee therapy was opened in March, 2017. Doctor She who studied under professors from Guangzhou’s Traditional Medicine University is currently the only one in the hospital that knows how to conduct the treatment.

He keeps a box of bees on a hill near the hospital and decides how many bees to catch every morning based on the number of patients to treat. He usually has to get up as early as 5 am.

Doctor She is fully equipped.

After months of training, Doctor She is now able to catch over a hundred bees in 10 minutes.

Bees sadly don’t survive long after the treatment. Doctor She , however, respectfully buries them under the trees.

 

Author: Sylvia

Editor: Simon Haywood


Doctor She is catching bees.


Doctor She is catching bees.

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