Bee Stings "Cured" His Arthritis

Bee Stings "Cured" His Arthritis MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Pest Animals 31-6-3 While crushing apples to make cider at his Glen Mills, Penn., home, Jack Nachamkin had the misfortune to be stung multiple times by yellow-jackets. "I was surprised to notice after being stung that the yellow jacket stings, while painful, actually cured my two arthritic fingers for a time," Nachamkin explains. He received three stings directly onto his arthritic left hand fingers, and one sting on his left thigh. Nachamkin says the stings on his fingers left them stiff with pain for only a day, and then the arthritis in the fingers went away. Arthritic pain in his hip also diminished. The beneficial effect lasted about twelve days before wearing out. "The sting on my leg developed into an itchy circular welt about 3/4 inches in diameter and took nearly three weeks to heal," he says. "The stings on my fingers didn't itch but there was slight irritation at each of the sting points for several days. "When the stings first happened, they were more painful than the arthritis had been, but the stinging pain didn't last too long and ultimately resulted in a nearly two-week period of completely pain-free time." A search on the internet quickly showed that bee stings are an ancient treatment for a variety of ills. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jack Nachamkin, 51 Broomall Lane, Glen Mills, Penn. 19342 (ph 610 455-3897; jackn1@ verizon.net).

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