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apitherapy country-wide. The specialty commission apitherapy.é Bee acupuncture combines bee prod-
issued various technological data. Special periods ucts and Chinese medicine to provide a new way to
were utilized in order to exchange apitherapy tech- treat cancer. It provides a wholly therapeutic effect
nology and research results, and develop apitherapy by playing a compound and cooperative role from

health care in a powerful manner. many perspectives. Its success provides many people
The international group on apitherapy health care suffering from stubborn diseases with new hope.
attached great importance to the experience of Chi- Nowadays, the trend is to return to nature. For
nese apitherapy. Chinese apitherapy products won one thing, people begin to pay greater attention to
the gold prize at the 31st, 32nd and 33rd International natural products which have been used for thousands
Conferences on Beekeeping from 1987 to 1993. of years; for another, the bee industry and medical
The International Apitherapy Health Care and groups think increasingly highly of the application of

International Bee Products Expositions, 1991~2006 bees and bee products for medical health care.
were held in China, Japan, Malaysia and South Korea
Basic Concepts of Apitherapy Health Care
They were organized by representatives of China, Ja-
pan, South Korea, United States and some countries
Utilization of bee products collected from bee
in Europe, Africa and Oceania. Professor Fang Zhu
honey, bee pollen and propolis
was elected president of IAHBA (International
Apitherapy Health Care & Beeacupunture Associa- Sheng Nongûs Herbal, completed 2,000 years ago,
tion), then known as IABPS (International Apitherapy described honey as çsweet, gentle, in charge of evil
& Bee-products Society). Professor Fang Zhu was influences in the heart and abdomen, as well as frights,

selected as the chairman of the those organizations. epilepsy and spasm.é It describes it as çcalming the
The secretariat is located in Singapore at the API deficiency of zang organs, replenishing Qi, toning the
Nutrition Center. IABPS strengthens cooperation and middle-jiao, alleviating pains, relieving poison, remo-
exchanges between eastern and western apitherapy ving diseases and harmonizing medicines.é Eating
practitioners and harmonizes the apitherapy and bee honey frequently can strengthen peopleûs will and
products industry. make them feel brisk without hunger or weakness. Li
Since 1993, Chinese items again repeatedly won Shizhen, a physician and pharmalogist in the Ming

laurels at International Bee-products Health Care Ex- dynasty, introduced 20 kinds of bee honey prescrip-
positions. The variety of Chinese apitherapy goods tions in the Compedium Materia Medica and de-
and the high quantity of the products have increased scribed the functions of honey, such as çresolving
step by step, and they are now sold all over the world. heat, tonifying the middle-jiao, neutralizing poison,
From 1991 to 2006, president Dr. Fang Zhu of moistening dryness and alleviating pains,é etc.
IAHBA joined in the first to the ninth international Many nutrients, monosaccharides, enzymes, or-
training classes on apitherapy health care held in ganic acids, elements, microelements and so on com-
China, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore. More than prise honey. Honey is available for patients with liver,
100 trainees graduated from those courses. It has kidney and cardiovascular trouble, among other con-

proved useful for the bee-product industry and ditions. It is better for patients with hepatic disease
apitherapy specialists to cooperate, observe, exchange to eat honey instead of sugar. Animal experiments
information and visit one another. The 9th training have also proved that honey maintains the liver, pro-
class was held in Kunming and the main subject was motes regeneration of hepatocytes and prevents the
çrelations between liver trouble, cancer and formation of a fatty liver. Bee honey has a good effect