By Dietrich K. Klinghardt, MD, PhD, FAANaoS-C, FABPMS-C
Presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurological Co’ Orthopaedic Surgeons, December 15th, 1989, Ballys Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.
First reports about the use of bee venom date back to the last century. In German literature and also several eastern European countries are found anecdotal reports mostly about bee-keepers who had been accidentally stung by a large number of bees. These people observed, subsequently, that their longstanding previous pain from arthritis of their knees, hips or other arthritic joints, disappeared after the stings & for long periods of time. When the arthritic pain reappeared, these bee-keepers would expose themselves again to these bee-stings with similar pain relief and success. This led to the first scientific studies about the use of bee stings in the treatment of pain.
