Title: Bee Sting Therapy: Health Benefits + Side Effects - SelfHacked
Headings: Bee Sting Therapy: Health Benefits + Side Effects
Bee Sting Therapy: Health Benefits + Side Effects
What Is Bee Sting Therapy?
Components of Bee Venom
Snapshot
Proponents
Skeptics
Health Benefits
Effective
Venom Immunotherapy
Insufficient Evidence
1) Arthritis
2) Skin Health
3) Parkinson’s Disease
4) Chronic Pain
5) Adhesive Capsulitis
Animal and Cell Research (Lack of Evidence)
Lupus
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Asthma
Lyme Disease
Cancer
Possibly Ineffective
Multiple Sclerosis
Side Effects
Stay Away From Anything That Causes Inflammation!

Content: The authors suggested that the dose and administration frequency might have been insufficient [ 37 ]. In mice, bee venom protected the brain from neurodegeneration by increasing the production of Tregs (CD4+CD25+Foxp3+). Its peptide apamin was identified as being partly responsible for these effects in another mouse study [ 38, 39 ]. In any case, 4 clinical trials with mixed results and some animal research cannot be considered sufficient evidence to back up this potential use of bee venom therapy. Further clinical research is needed to shed some light on its effects. 4) Chronic Pain
In a clinical trial on 54 people with chronic back pain, bee venom acupuncture for 3 weeks reduced disturbances and pain intensity while improving functional status when injected into acupoints but not into random points [ 40 ]. Topical bee venom relaxed the joint muscles, thus reducing pain, in a clinical trial on 79 people with chronic pain in the jaw joint (temporomandibular joint syndrome) [ 41 ]. Another trial on 60 people with chronic neck pain aimed to compare bee venom acupuncture with conventional NSAIDs. Although the study was completed in 2015, its results remain unpublished [ 42, 43 ]. Again, 3 clinical trials (one of them with unpublished, possibly negative results) are insufficient to attest to the effectiveness of bee venom in relieving chronic pain.