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to serve human health-care needs in an all-round way, tecting the skin and hairdressing in Beijing and Shang-
on February 14, 1958, an article entitled Bees › A hai city, as well as in Jiangsu, Hubei and Zhejiang
Friend of Health, written by Dr. Fang Zhu, was provinces. Between, November 1 and 5, 1980, the Api-
publised by the Peopleûs Daily; it advocated the popu- cultural Science Association of China held an aca-

larization of apitherapy health care. In August 1959, demic seminar on the utilization of bee products in
the Chinese Medicine Association compiled and pub- Lian Yungang, Jiangsu Province. A total of 16 pro-
lished Peopleûs Health Care and Chinese Magazine vinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions and
on Dermatology, which presented papers on treating more than 70 representatives participated in the aca-
diseases using bee venom and propolis respectively. demic exchange, the main subject of which was the
Dr. Fang Zhu was the first person to come up with medical and pharmacological applications of bee prod-
the technique of bee acupuncture combining merid- ucts. A specialty commission was established at the

ians and points. On January 16, 1960, Marshal Zhu seminar; Dr. Fang Zhu and Zhou Song were repre-
De wrote to the central leadership of the Communist sented as directors and honorary members of the Lian
Party, Chairman Mao himself, to advocate that China Yungang Apitherapy Research Institute.
develop the beekeeping industry and enthusiastically At the beginning of the 1980s, besides the
praised bees as the friend of peopleûs health. Apitherapy Research Institute and the Apitherapy Hos-
In the 1960s, the Chinese drug industry produced pital in Lian Yungang, another 22 provinces, cities
royal jelly products and venom injections. In Septem- and autonomous regions were carrying out applica-
ber 1962, the Chinese Insect Institute held a bee- tions on and lab research into bee acupuncture and
keeping symposium on the use of royal jelly and bee apitherapy health care. They established an

venom. Participants exchanged observations about apitherapy hospital, research institutes, clinics and
the therapeutic effects of these products and lab re- apitherapy departments in local areas or army hospi-
search results on royal jelly, bee venom, propolis and tals, and sanitariums etc.
honey. In 2005, the Apicultural Science Association of
In the 1970s, Chinese apitherapy pharmaceuti- China organized 11 sessions of the National Specialty
cals, such as the Feng Huang Tai Tablet and Rhinitis Conference on Apitherapy, in which many excellent
Ling, a preparation of honeycomb, and Chinese papers were presented. There were 156 representa-

herbalsû mixed in a prescription of royal jelly, for ex- tives from 23 provinces, municipalities and autono-
ample, Peking Royal Jelly, came out. From June 27 to mous regions participating the 9th National Specialty
July 3, 1979, upon the establishment of the Apicul- Conference on Apitherapy, held in Xiûan. The confer-
tural Science Association of China, apitherapy pa- ence exchanged 71 papers and published them in
pers were presented at a symposium, and the Bee various periodicals. The conference began to hold spe-
Products Utilization and Apitherapy Team was cialty seminars on apitherapy and put forward mar-
establised to discuss and exchange information. keting issues to assure the promotion and popular-
In the 1980s, apitherapeutic pharmaceuticals, ization of apitherapy health care and the manage-
such as Propolis Tablets, Prostate Kang, a kind of a ment of bee products.

bee pollen preparation, and a new type of injection From January 1993 to September 2006, the spe-
using a solution made from bee venom powder, were cialty commission on apitherapy hosted five lectures
released in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Tradi- on bee products and 42 training classes in which
tional bee products, which combined honey, royal jelly, more than, 2,000 participants graduated, thus popu-
propolis, beeswax and bee larvae, were used for pro- larizing and expanding the bee products industry and