Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating disease of the nervous system. The body, for reasons unknown, receives a false signal to attack itself and it does. Many believe this false signal is a result of being exposed to some toxin or virus.  The body attacks the Myelin sheath that protects the nerve fibers, and once the demyelination is finished, the nerve endings are left raw, exposed and scarred. This is what creates numbness, loss of sight, loss of mobility and severe pain. The translation of scar in German is Sclerosis, therefore the direct definition of MS is Multiple scars, which makes it very similar to Arthritis. There is an old saying that beekeepers do not get arthritis; This is due to the amount of bee stings they receive on their hands. This made me think, if beekeepers do not get arthritis, then maybe Bee stings would cure MS as well.

Three NATURAL, non-invasive ways to combat MS:

It is so disappointing that the doctors of today are mere businessmen, not researchers.  They are swayed by cute, perky cheerleaders to prescribe the new drugs they represent.  They are plied with expensive meals and vacations to provide their trusting patients with very one-sided advice; The tales of the drug companies.  Side effects are not even part of the drug conversation, only that you need Bextra to become healthy and regain movement.  Bextra which incidentally killed several people via "sudden fatal skin reactions"

What do I like about Doctors?  Well for one, they are great diagnosticians. I never would have guessed I had Multiple Sclerosis, I needed a doctor to tell me exactly what was wrong and where the problem originated.  He pointed out on my body exactly where my lesion was, something I could not do myself.  After that, I feel his role was over, the part about researching and understanding my disease and how I wished to cure it was my sole responsibility.

I did try Bee venom on my lesion (spinal cord scar) and all feeling returned to my body, so I assumed the venom had really dissolved the scar. But a funny thing happened a few months later,  I began doubting whether I had been healed by the bees, or if it was some crazy coincidence.  I really started believing it may all be in my head and possibly I had been healed by positive thinking, the placebo effect at its best... SO I went ahead and stung a very obvious scar on my right hand just to convince myself. 

While living in NY City, I fell into a pothole in 1992 on the corner of Christopher Street and 7th Ave. I tore all the ligaments in my right thumb and it was no longer attached to the body other than the skin.  I had surgery to repair the thumb and fully recovered use of my thumb, but I was left with a very ugly scar ever since, about 14 years already.  I stung the scar once this summer and here is photo proof that bee venom does dissolves scars.  I proved to myself that bee venom does in fact dissolve scars, and since Multiple Sclerosis is just Multiple Scars, it can be reversed.  Notice that the train track look of my scar is completely gone, as is the overall look of the scar.  I believe if I sting the scar a few more times, it will be entirely erased.  THESE PHOTOS ARE NOT DOCTORED!

This venom-triggered repair process works on many diseases, especially any condition with degeneration and loss of muscle or nerve function. Bee Venom is powerful enough to combat auto-immune diseases, where the body's normal immune defense is directed against one's own tissue, in a non-invasive manner with no side effects. 

In the 1930's, New York City medical doctor, Dr. Bodog Beck and a Vermont beekeeper, Mr. Charles Mraz, recognized the beneficial healing power of bee stings, and pioneered bee venom therapy in America. Dr. Beck had a small bee hive on the balcony of his practice in New York City and his patients traveled from all over the country for his Arthritis cure. He would catch live bees in his long nosed tweezers, and force the bees to sting the patients directly onto their trigger points or where the patients reported feeling pain. Dr. Beck writes of healing many patients with his bee stings. His book is an interesting read, and very technical.  The Bible of Bee Venom Therapy by Dr. Bodog Beck.  available at Amazon

Charles Mraz was a beekeeper in Vermont in the 1940's who also decided bee stings could cure a variety of maladies. He became obsessed with the idea that so many people live with chronic pain and he could easily cure pain with his bees. He discovered this through practice, that most ailments can be relieved by using bee venom.  Mraz was also able to heal mice who were injected with tumors.  He went head to head with Sloan Kettering, and their mice died while his thrived.  He reports using bee venom in conjunction with royal jelly and bee pollen.  He also reports many arthritic patients being able to walk again, after receiving BVT from his live bee stings. His book is also very interesting, more in layman's terms.  Health and the HoneyBee by Charles Mraz  available at Amazon

The healing property of bee venom is initiated after the sting, when it stimulates the adrenal glands to produce cortisol, a natural human hormone that has anti-inflammatory properties. The drug cortisone, imitates the hormone, cortisol, but its synthetic form can result in damaging side effects to the body. It can cause Schizophrenia as Jane Pauley found out for herself while taking cortisone.  It has been found that Bee Venom shocks the immune system into producing a healing response through the hypothalamus, pituitary and adrenal glands. Charles Mraz also believed from his observations that bee venom spurs the production of endorphins, the body's natural pain killer.

Pat Wagner is the self proclaimed Bee Lady.  Her full story is on her website.  According to her website, and video her body was debilitated and ravaged by MS.  She had graduated from a wheelchair to a hospital bed and was not given long to live.  She began Bee Sting therapy and is now able to walk again, assisted by a cane.  She has a Bee Venom practice from her home in Virginia and heals many people of this disease, I believe free of charge.  http://www.olg.com/beelady/

NEW DUTCH STUDY
Surprisingly, there was a new study published in Dec, 2005 which contradicts the benefits of Bee Sting Therapy for MS. The research Doctors in the Netherlands found no benefit at all for MS patients being stung with live bees.  Their study involved subjecting 26 MS patients (not a huge test group) to 24 weeks of medically supervised bee sting therapy with a control group without treatment. Live bees (up to a maximum of 20) were used to administer bee venom three times per week. 

The study's RESULTS  were strange to me.  They found that there was "no significant reduction in the cumulative number of new lesions, the T2*-weighted lesion load further progressed, and there was no significant reduction in relapse rate. There was no improvement of disability, fatigue, and quality of life. Bee sting therapy was well tolerated, and there were no serious adverse events.  CONCLUSION: In this trial, treatment with bee venom in patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis did not reduce disease activity, disability, or fatigue and did not improve quality of life. "

This study really took me by surprise, how could I have such a different experience?  How did Dr. Beck, Mr. Mraz and I encounter such good results with bee stings and MS, while this study discounts it?   The Real Why contacted the study's author regarding this finding, and this was his response:

Date: 1/11/2006 1:32:07 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: j.h.a.de.keyser@neuro.umcg.nl

"Many patients have the same feelings as you have. In our study, the majority of patients thought that the bee stings were doing something good... However, we could not measure any benefit, and disease activity on MRI scans of the brains showed no improvement. Yes, the bees came directly from the hive.

Best regards."

Although the Study clearly states that the test subjects did not show any "measurable" improvement, Dr. De Keyser's comments to The Real Why state more than was published for the Neurological society.  He clearly states that patients reported feeling better, it's just not measurable. I believe a much larger test should be conducted over a longer period of time, preferably 2 years.  Possibly it takes time for lesions to disappear from MRI's but that does not necessarily mean that the bee sting does not calm, soothe and repair the raw nerve endings.  Here is his research article: http://www.neurology.org/cgi/content/abstract/65/11/1764


Milo's Story:  Since I decided to share my personal fight against Multiple Sclerosis with others, I encountered a dog, Milo the Boxer, who has Degenerative Myelopathy which is the canine equivalent of Multiple Sclerosis.  I am healing him with Bee stings and Curry because I love him and to prove that it can be done.  Milo has no positive thinking, he just walks a lot better after I lay 8 bee stings on him and I can absolutely tell it is working, as can his owner.  He was given 8 weeks to live about 6 months ago.   His diagnosis was made at the respectable UC Davis and he has all the proper documentation for the disease.  I will continue to update this site on his progress. I stung him 8 times in Feb 2006, and today, March 11, 2006.

  

Once I decided to sting myself with honeybees, I went out and bought a bee hive. You can also order live honeybees in a jar or catch them off flowering shrubs or find a beekeeper near you willing to sting you or sell you a jar of bees. I must admit it took me a month after installing the hive before I could actually sting myself with my first bee, I was very nervous! Being from NY City, I was not particularly interested in that type of burning sensation, but that all changed when I went to get a hair cut.

As the hair washing assistant guided my head back into wash basin, I felt a total electrical sensation run through my spine! Its called L'hermits syndrome and its quite popular among the MS crowd. It is very scary and a quite painful sensation if the head goes anywhere off horizontal. That is the day I began stinging myself directly onto the area of my spinal lesion. The best part about an MRI is that you know exactly where your lesions are located. I stung directly onto my lesion for 3 sessions and the L'hermits went away. I have had no further encounter with L'hermits syndrome. I stung my arms which were numb and tingly from the MS, and it only took 2 sessions to have all feeling restored to my arms. I followed the Bee Sting manual written by the late Charles Mraz, who many consider to be the father of modern day Apitherapy. I stung myself every other day for 6 months, because I guess I'm extreme.  I really did not want any of it coming back.  I now no longer need Bee stings to control or fight my MS. I have discovered the curing effects of CURRY!

CURRY Spice fights MS and Alzheimer's Disease: Throughout my research, a common thread is that MS follows geographic latitudes and cultural differences.  Individuals who grew up from the ages of 8-15 years within 40 degrees of the equator have little chance of developing MS.    Click for Global occurance map of MS:

Most scientists agree this Global difference is due to the large quantity of Vitamin D absorbed directly from the intense sunlight. I became quite fascinated why some cultures do not have instances of MS and Alzheimer's while other cultures are overly susceptible. When I first began researching Curry, there were numerous web articles referring to the miracles of curry as a preventative for Alzheimer's, Multiple Sclerosis and Cancer. Now there seems to be very little curry healing information available online or its very well buried by Google and Yahoo.  I've been using BBC.com for easier access to health research without all the garbage and drug ads to sift through.

One of the most informative articles regarding Curry and Alzheimer's is posted on the UCLA Newspaper website. Click here: http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?ID=31480

The reason Curry works is it is one of the few substances that can cross the very selective blood brain barrier (BBB). Researchers discovered through Magnetic imaging (MRI) that each time an MS patient developed a new lesion, the Blood Brain Barrier was compromised and active. Since curry also permeates the blood brain barrier, the theory is that the curry interferes with demyelination of the sheath and plaque buildups associated with Alzheimer's.   By reinforcing the BBB, the disease causing, foreign particles are neutralized by the presence of the curry. Do yourself a favor and start  EATING CURRY!!!!

This is a great site of the anatomy of the blood brain barrier, you should read this!http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/bbb.html

NEW STUDY - Paralyzed Mice      According to researcher Dr. Chandramohan Natarajan of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee: "mice with an MS-like illness showed little or no signs of disease symptoms after being injected with curcumin, while animals without the treatment went on to severe paralysis." "We got a very good inhibition of the disease by treating with curcumin," Natarajan told Reuters Health at the annual Experimental Biology 2002 conference.  GUESS WHAT?  If you have Multiple Sclerosis, you should EAT CURRY! Full article

Why hasn't your Neurologist mentioned that crippled mice can walk again after injections of curry?

My Experience with Curry
I have no signs of any MS since I've been eating higher quantities of Curry. I like to eat it several times per week.  I add lots to sour cream and make a dip, and I add it to hamburger meat, and to ketchup.   I also try to eat at the Indian restaurant several times per month and I try to get as much curry into my diet as possible, even if it sometimes tastes awful. I'd rather eat something strong occasionally than find myself in a wheelchair permanently! You can bet that in India, curry is involved in every meal.  In Okinawa they drink Turmeric tea as a tonic, and they boast the longest life spans on the planet...

I no longer sting with bees but I would in a minute if anything were to go numb again.  Whenever I feel I might be having an episode of numbness or tingling, I bump up my Curry intake and it subsides within a day. I highly recommend starting a curry diet today!  No one should be crippled by this disease or by Alzheimer's disease!  We all have lots of living left!

Click here for Vitamin D and MS info: http://www.direct-ms.org/british.html

Curry and Alzheimers from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1668932.stm

Curry and MS from Reuters: http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/news/Apr2002/CurrySpiceForMS.html

Bee Venom and Breast cancer: http://www.obgyn.net/newsheadlines/womens_health-Bee_Venom-20030901-2.asp

Dr. Andrew Weil on Curry: http://www.drweil.com/u/QA/QA72328/

Global occurance map of MS: http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/ms_world.html