General Reading #3 -Kristen Gladfelter

I was browsing through various articles looking for a topic to write about in one of my science classes when I came upon an interesting article. This article described how doctors and scientists are using bee venom to help with autoimmune diseases such as MS and ALS. Both of these disease are life threatening and at the moment there is very little modern medicine can do to reduce the effects of these diseases. Therefore, doctors are going old school and looking at ancient Chinese bee venom therapy, or apitherapy, to reduce symptoms of these diseases. Great improvements have been made with bee venom, more so that using modern medicine. I found it extremely interesting that nature is more that just a place or peace, but can also relieve pain for those that need it most.