Apitherapy:
Apitherapy is a type of alternative medicine that uses substances from honeybees — including honey, pollen, royal jelly, bee venom and beeswax — to treat a variety of conditions, from pain to arthritis, according to the American Apitherapy Society. Live bee acupuncture is a procedure that falls within apitherapy. [“Woman dies after ‘acupuncture’ session that used live bees instead of needles,” Amy B Wang, WaPo]
I’d be curious to know the “theoretical” rationale for this sort of therapy, if any.
