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Re:Honey bee venom found to kill breast cancer cells by hourislate on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @09:50AM (#24341686)
Growing up my dad kept about 15 hives. A few farms over there was this old guy from Ukraine who was an amazing bee keeper (had about 50 hives of his own). One day while extracting honey, I watched him pick up a bee and force it to sting him by his thumb (wrist area) and asked why, he told me it was like medicine for arthritis. Perhaps he was onto something?
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Re:Honey bee venom found to kill breast cancer cells by comedowntous on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:25AM (#24342044)
One of the episodes of the Netflix documentary series "Unwell" gives a very interesting overview of bee sting therapy. One doctor talks about its effectiveness against arthritis, because the body releases cortisol and analgesics in response to the bee venom, which explains why people with arthritis feel better.

However, the next point made is that a more straightforward way to achieve a similar result would of course be to inject the cortisol directly, instead of provoking this response by the body by injecting toxins first.

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Re:Honey bee venom found to kill breast cancer cells by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @11:16AM (#24342691)
Yup, at its charitable best, it's chewing on willow bark instead of taking an aspirin.
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Re:Honey bee venom found to kill breast cancer cells by temp0826 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @12:03PM (#24343264)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apitherapy

Also interesting (and becoming a more common treatment) is the venomous secretion from a tree frog called Kambo-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kambo_cleanse

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