BE STUNG--AND BEE CURED

Hawera Star, Volume L, 10 January 1931, Page 16

BE STUNG--AND BEE CURED

TTAYE you a ‘‘head ’’ or housemaid’s **■*■ knee? Then send for Doctor Busy-Bee— For with his handy little sting, :He can cure almost anything! That, briefly, is why the Busy Bee N has got to get Really Busy. . Dr Max Grunsfeld, of Vienna, speaking at the International Bee Confer- 1 ence at the Crystal Palace recently, said:— “It is certain that the number of diseases which can be treated with bee poison will in the future be considerably increased, and even to-day one is justified in declaring that bee poison can no longer be spurned from the remedial treasure house of medicine. “The powers of bee poison against rheumatism were -well known to beekeepers of olden time's, but. the difficulty of applying the remedy by means of the bee’s string resulted in its being forgotten by medicine. “After a number of experiments to synthetise bee poison, Dr Franz Kretschy took up the question eight years ago and himself obtained relief from

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A Remedy for Rheumatism

rheumatism of many years’ standing. “Tests show that in articular diseases and the combating of rheumatism bee poison is a wonderful remedy. Bad cases of neuralgia and sciatica have also been treated with good results.” Just to emphasise that every hive might, soon be a hospital, Dr Kretsehy himself told the conference that bee poison is a cure for diseases of the nervous and vascular system, and that skin diseases can be favourably influenced bv it.

A good example of .he practical application of Dr Kretsehy's “cure” comes from the west of Ireland. The patient —or victim—was taken to a row of beehives and his suffering limb bared and thrust down into a hive and held there while the angry bees punctured it in a hundred places.

The cure ‘worked.” The sufferer—an old man of about SO—when the swelling from the stings had abated, professed himself entirely free from rheumatic p.u.i.