We visited an Aeta settlement in the mountains of Kanawan Morong Bataan. They were preparing a demonstration of their wild honey collection techniques for documentation of the National Commission for Culture and Arts. We got into the discussion of bee stings. They were jokingly serious that if you suffered from rheumatism and got stung by the bees, you would be cured of rheumatism. But if you were healthy and got stung by the bees you would get rheumatism.
It was very simple, the Aeta representative said, you get a bee, hold it in your fingers and you let it sting you in the affected part. I really don’t know the dosage you need for this, but I’m sure their local healers would know. If you suffer from some form of rheumatism and you are not cured yet, why not try visiting some friendly Aetas in the mountains and ask for their help. Maybe all you need are a couple of bee stings?
Now I did a simple search on the internet for “rheumatism + bee + sting” and it turned up quite a good number of texts pointing to the popularity of this treatment. This treatment ancient… more than ancient… it is pre-historic. I would bet it is pretty darn effective.
The term the Aeta used was “rayuma” for “rheumatism” which in western medical definitions could be:
* Ankylosing spondylitis
* Back pain
* Bursitis/ Tendinitis, Shoulder pain, wrist, biceps, leg, knee (patellar), ankle, hip, and Achilles
* Capsulitis
* Fibromyalgia
* Neck pain
* Osteoarthritis
* Psoriatic arthritis
* Rheumatic fever
* Rheumatic heart disease (a long-term complication of Rheumatic fever)
* Rheumatoid arthritis
* Systemic lupus erythematosus
* Temporal arteritis and Polymyalgia rheumatica
* Tenosynovitis.
According to Wikipedia entry for rheumatism.
I am writing to you from the Pacific Northwest Foundation about a case study that may be of interest to your concerns regarding fibromyalgia. While this was not a study undertaken by the Foundation, it was a case with which we have had access to in virtually every detail. This includes the chart notes (with the patient’s approval) as well as the observations and insights of the patient’s health care provider.
The case involves an adult female who had been disabled for eight years with diagnosed fibromyalgia. Within four months of treatment, she was able to backpack, regularly work a full day and have little or no pain.
As with all our studies, it is our hope to stimulate additional efforts to determine if these results were an aberration or have wider implications. To this end, we wanted to make you aware of the cast study (which can be found online at http://pnf.org/html/fibromyalgia.html), in the hope that it might prove useful as a starting point for research within your organization.
Thanks and kind regards,
Frank Cook
Pacific Northwest Foundation
I was put on, at the pain clinic, Cymbalta for long term relief and morphine sulphate for instant relief. I take Darvocet for long term pain relief also. I get upper dermals but the damage is so great ? I would be careful on horseback. don’t gallop it’ll shake your neck apart and jar you.