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ing rheumatoid arthritis, liver trouble and leucocy- had kept bees for 40 years and never got an illness.
topenia. Tablets of male larvae and pupas are good His mother was also a beekeeper; in 1951, she was
for treating the obstructed development of childrenûs 108 years old and still healthy. One of Chinaûs modern
intelligence and improving male sexual functions as beekeepers, Zhuang Yuancheng, lived in Fukien; he

well as strengthening the kidney and invigorate the died in 1988, at 96 years of age. Wang Boya lived in
yang. Hebei; he died in 1991, at 94 years of age, and his
Middle-aged bees can be used in medicine as a wife was still healthy at that time (she was 98 years
whole. Folk bee prescriptions may be taken orally and old); they had always kept bees.
externally to treat rheumatism, gynecopathy, asthma In an open-air apiary, people can smell the fresh
and bronchitis. Chi Shui Xuan Zhu, a medical book of air scented by wax, propolis and fragnant flowers,
the Ming dynasty, recorded that people have used and feel the sunshine that stimulates all life to grow.

bee prescriptions to heal lymph node problems. Bees One can see bees full of life flying in and out of their
should be kept in closed packets after drying over a hive, and listen to bursts of bee sounds, share many
slow fire and crushing the contents. The packets fresh and sweet bee products. Such a place is a
should be placed on the area with rheumatic pain or more pleasant than Utopia. Beekeepers have simple
on the lower abdomen of gynecopathy patients, us- satisfactions, great joys and strengthened abilities in
ing hot bricks pressed on the packet quickly after resisting disease; they are still strong even when they
dipping it into water, fixing it with small sand bags become old. Such a place provides a extremely ef-
and covering it with a cotton blanket for 30~50 min- fective çwork entertainment therapy.é In American
utes, once a day for 10~15 days at a time. Homoeo- cities, the number of residents involved in amateur

pathy uses drops, pills and ointments made of bee beekeeping has reached more than 200,000. People
products to treat diseases. All books on homeopathy living in downtown areas put all kinds of bee hives in
describe how people employ bees to treat various their courtyard or on the veranda. American society
diseases. is extremely competitive and fast-paced; in such a
Bee acupuncture cannot work without colonies setting more and more people hope to relax their ten-
of bees breeding in the open; therefore, apitherapy sions and improve their health by the natural move-
specialists should be good at keeping bees. ments involved with keeping bees.

It is believed that living and working conditions To advocate medical care and prevent disease,
play a very important role in health. N.P. Ioilish, a we should encourage retired persons and the disabled
Russian, who has a masterûs degree in medicine, sur- to acquire joy, health and longevity in the apiary. In
veyed the health condition of 390 beekeepersû in the addition people with arthropathy, high blood pressure,
Ukraine; of that number, 273 had worked in an apiary and psychoneurosis following disease or surgery, and
from 5 to 57 years, but were never ill since they be- weakness should be engaged in keeping bees.
gan keping bees. Twenty-two had suffered from rheu- We should like to suggest that conditioned medi-
matism, but after being stung by bees they become cal recovery institutes establish apiary recovery pro-
asymptomatic. grams in unique sanitarium areas. Apiary products

A beekeeper said that he had been working in can be used for medical care. A bee colony is like a
the apiary for 45 years and never got an illness. Three pharmaceutical factory. Doctors can order them and
generations of his family had kept bees. His parents let these flying pharmacists make all kinds of phar-
were still healthy; his grandfather died of natural maceutical honey, vitamins and microelements, all of
causes when he was 105 years old. Another beekeeper which contribute to peopleûs medical health.