Is Bee Sting Therapy Buzzing Into The Mainstream? Clinical Trials Underway For Chronic Pain

CBSLA.com) ^ | April 25, 2014 11:30 PM | Lisa Sigell

[Pontiac]

Cool Bump for later.

[relictele]

The challenge is pi**ing the bees off enough to provoke a sting.

I find that reading a few sentences from a book by Hillary Clinton or Liz Warren is quite effective at drawing an angry swarm.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I’d get them to eat the honey of the Apis Labriosa honeybee that lives in the Himalayas. If you eat too much it’ll give you nausea/vomiting, convulsions, and/or hallucinations because the bees eat the nectar a rhododendron plant that is poisonous.

Hallucinogen Honey Hunters - Hunting mad honey - documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_b2i_FvYPw

You can see the effects on an individual starting at about the 20:15 mark.

[Parmy]

Then the bee dies.

[chajin]

And if it ever goes into commercial production, we already know the perfect pitchman...

(yes, that's Sting)

[dfwgator]

That’s Gordon Sumner.

[chajin]

OK, how about this Sting instead?

[SamAdams76]

I hate getting old. I remember when Sting was bouncing around the stage with the rest of The Police banging out hits like "De Do Do Do Do De Da Da Da Da" and "When The World Is Running Down You Make The Best Of What Goes Around" and all those other gems they wrote from about 1978 to 1983.

What the hell happened?

[Cboldt]

“Say, was you ever bit by a dead bee?”

[Sherman Logan]

Time?

[mrs. a]

I remember when Sting was the big thing - constantly on the radio. My sister got sick of him and wailed, “O Sting, where is thy death?”

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

What about wasps and hornets?

[Bigg Red]

“To Have and To Have Not” ?

[colorcountry]

My grandpa did this back in the 60’s for ‘rheumatism’. I don’t think it was a long term fix, but it helped for awhile.

[Cboldt]

Yep. Funny line in a mostly serious story.

[Bigg Red]

Not much of a movie person, but, for some reason, that stayed with me.

[BenLurkin]

Why didn’t you bite him back?

[mrs. a]

Some bee therapy for the ladies...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAwwDW7zd2E

[newnhdad]

How about baseball bat therapy? A swift hit with a bat upside the head will make you forget all other pain.