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: Similarly, injection of bee venom into the lesions improved psoriasis and reduced the levels of an inflammatory marker ( TNF-alpha) in a clinical trial on 50 people [ 33 ]. Nevertheless, four small clinical trials testing bee venom for different skin conditions are insufficient to support its use. More clinical trials on larger populations for each condition are required. 3) Parkinson’s Disease
In 3 clinical trials on 117 people with Parkinson’s disease, both conventional and bee venom acupuncture worked as an add-on to prescribed medication to improve Parkinson’s symptoms, quality of life, number of steps required to walk 20-30 m, and depressive mood [ 34, 35, 36 ]. However, a similar trial on 40 people found bee venom acupuncture ineffective. 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.