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Apitherapy and PsychiatryHoney Bee Venom
Usage for Psychiatric Patients
Michael Gurevich, MDHolisticMD.org
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Is there a conflict of interest?
- No
and I will keep it this way
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My credentials
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Michael I. Gurevich, M.D.HolisticMD.orgDiplomat American Board of PsychiatryDiplomat American Board of Addiction PsychiatryDiplomat American Board of Holistic MedicineCertified in: Acupuncture, EMDRAdditional training in:
Applied Psycho NeurobiologyAutonomic Response TestingKinesiological testing
Neural TherapyHoney Bee Venom TherapyOrthomolecular medicineInstitute of Functional Medicine
Guided ImagerySystemic Family Constellation (Hellinger method)
MeditationYoga Positive Psychology Other holistic modalities
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My personal induction in to the field
• Dietrich Klinghardt, M.D., Ph.D.- one of the best medical practitioners in US and Europe. He has extensive experience in using honey bee venom (apitoxin) therapy.
• Ruptured meniscus: anything to avoid surgery .• Michael Simics, Apitronic Services- was my first
teacher.• Stefan Stangaciu, MD (Romania),
Apitherapy Internet Course.• Reading, doing it, enjoying it, sharing it.
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Challenge: should I give bee venom to my psychiatric patients?
• What if they have arthritis? • What if they have a sport injury?• What if they have Lyme?• Can it also help their psychiatric conditions?• Can we challenge the dogma on two sides?
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Conventional vs. vs. vs. vs.
Holistic
Psychiatry
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Conventional psychiatry The Power of Diagnosis
• Every one given a diagnosis, often several. • Diagnoses are based on DSM IV (The
Psychiatric Bible) .– DSM III, IV and soon V are put together by a
group of people with strong ties to industry.– Disease definition changes every few years. – Etiology is disregarded.
• Patient is equated with the disease.• And compared with a group of patients with
similar disease.• Individuality is disregarded. What’s your Dx?
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Conventional psychiatryThe Power of Diagnosis
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• Doctors usually assume that Disease is caused be a “Chemical Imbalance”, or “Deficiency in Neurotransmitters” based on…???
• Tests to confirm presumptive deficiency/ excess are available, but are not used…???
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Conventional PsychiatryThe Power of Medication
• Medication treatment dominates psychiatry.• FDA approves medications based on:
– Short term, selective, only successful studies– Medications put in a group of ANTI.. –psychotic,
depressants, etc.
• As soon as medication is approved, ANTI- category begins to expand:– …depressants approved to Tx anxiety.– …psychotic approved to Tx depression.
• Medications are non-specific in their action, except they have strong neurotoxic effects.
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Conventional Psychiatry• Non-Specific Diagnosis + Non-Specific
treatment = At best short term remission – In 4-6 weeks, in 20-30% of patients; – 50% of whom relapse within one year and– A LOT of side effects.
• But in spite of these– 20-25 % of all US population are on 1+
psychotropic medications and – ~ 10% of children <15 yo.
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Conventional psychiatry
• Disability due to psychiatric conditions is rapidly growing, now is the largest group among all disabled patients.
• Incredible rise in the Treatment Resistant Psychiatric Conditions (but nobody reports statistics).
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Psychiatric Disability for children <18 years old
• 1987: 293,000 total on disability 16,200 (5 % ) due to mental
illness• 2007: 561,000 on disability due to
mental illness. 25 times increase.• Social Security Administration , annual statistical reports on
SSI program, 1996-2008; and Social Security Bulletin, Annual Statistical Supplement, 1988-1992.
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Holistic Psychiatry
• Purpose: assist patients to reach their optimal level of health, with minimal cost and no side effects.
• Finding obstacles to healing and matching specific healing to individual patient.
• Magic tools:– Kinesiological testing.– Lechter’s antenna and Bioresonance Analysis of
Health (BAH).
• Medical diagnosis- is not important in resolving patient’s issue (but it is a language that patient/ medical community understands), it signifies certain vulnerabilities we should be aware of.
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The 5 Levels of Healing – A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment
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Therapeutic methods are used according to on which level healing
issue is addressed • Physical Level:
– Supplements, Injections, bee venom, etc.
• Energetic Level: – Acupuncture, energy psychology, etc.
• Psycho-emotional– Special forms of psychotherapy, etc.
• Transpersonal– Systemic Family Constellation
• Spiritual- meditation, spiritual interventions.
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Where does bee venom therapy fits in my practice ?
• Self-referred patients looking for BV therapy.• Medical patients in my practice: arthritis,
inflammation, injuries (as part of neural therapy).
• Lyme spectrum disorder: joint inflammation, arthritis, bacteriosis.
• Tx Resistant Mood Disorder.• Anxiety with accompanying arthritis. • Substance abuse.
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Getting off psychotropic meds using bee venom
• Harriet W. is 58 yo retired school teacher, avid golf and tennis player
• Dx : Treatment Resistant Major Depression for >10 years; came on 5 psychotropic meds.
• Started BV because of elbow and knee pain (had several surgeries).
• Initially: severe itching. Persevere, because of immediate pain↓.
• Itching persisted for 3 weeks.• Over the next 4 month she slowly tapered her
meds. Feeling better than in years.
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Pitfalls: Be careful with psychiatric patients; they are prone to panic
• Antoinette is a 57 yo WF suffering from anxiety, depression, and chronic back pain. She was more comfortable with remaining on meds.
• She received 1 BVSE divided in 20 doses in a usual way.
• She became frightened about itching reaction. She was admitted to ER and received steroids and IV infusion.
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Manic Switch? Or Just stress?
• Bill O. is a 38 yo WM, single, struggling with chronic depression for years. Physical abuse and neglect as a child. Reduced his meds by himself. Several trials of supplements failed.
• Exercise is the best for him, but stopped because of pain due to overtraining.
• HBV injections started at my office; later doing at home with assistance.
• Depression lifted in 2 weeks. Lost 20 lb.• But… in 2 mo. He became almost hypomanic.
Stress: he was buying his first house.• Has been doing well for > year
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Vertigo- relieved by neural therapy with bee venom
• 65 yo WM, retired Gym teacher, father of my former “hopeless” patients.
• Comes with C/o lightheadedness, connected to viral infection.
• Neural therapy with bee venom injections behind ear resolves Sx after two Tx.
• Sx reoccur and respond to Tx every 8 to 15 months.
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Possible Use of Apitoxins in Normalization of Alcohol Drinking
Drinking
• I.Krivopalov-Moskvin, et. Institute of Clinical Apitherapy, Chelyabinsk, Russia
• 4,300 patients have been treated in over 10 years.
• 679 of them observed and included in study.
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Possible use of Apitoxins in Normalization of Alcohol
Drinking drinking
GroupsRemission
6 month%Remission
1 yea%Remission
3 years %
Alcohol abuse (412)
84.9 77.9 69.9
Alcohol Dependence
(267)79.9 69.8 55.1
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The Apitox Program For Narcomania Treatment
• I.Krivopalov-Moskvin, et. Institute of Clinical Apitherapy, Chelyabinsk, Russia.
• 3 year study: inpatient and outpatinet observation for one year; 61 patients.
• Reduction of main symptoms of abstinence observed in 75% in 2-3 days.
• 44% of patients remain in remission up to 6 months.
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What does it take to inject dried honey bee venom
(apitoxin) ? 1. Michael Simics collecting dried honey bee
venom, preparing it, standardizing it meticulously, shipping it.
2. Using procaine 1%, preservative free.3. Putting it in 3 CC syringe.4. Adding apitoxin .1 cc per one honey bee venom
sting (or less if it is Venex 20).5. Putting 30 g needle.
6. Making multiple intra-cutaneous (into the skin) injections (see video).
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Injecting bee venom
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A few tips:
• Be careful about adrenal fatigue!• Injections in the area of adrenal
glands and below diaphragm – helpful for depression.
• Injections behind ears have great effect for early Meniere's Disease.
• Muscle test where to inject and BAH’s if to inject.
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Family feud:
• Life honey bee venom stings • vs. • Dried honey bee venom/ procaine
injections.• Few thoughts and • …lets just work together and support
each other .
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Live Honey Bee Venom (BV) vs. Dried Honey Bee Venom (Apitoxin)
Live Bee Venom Dried Bee VenomPotency/ storage Depending on
season, area, storage, how long applied, etc.
Predictable, standardized, easy to store, long shelf life
All BV fractions Yes NoAdministration: easiness & speed
Cumbersome Easy and fast
Honey Bees fate Sacrificed Minimal effectPain Moderate to severe Mild to moderateWho can administer?
Anybody Need a licensure to inject & trained patients
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Live Honey Bee Venom (BV) vs. Dried Honey Bee Venom (Apitoxin)
Bee venom supply Any bee keeper Only few manufactures in the world
Cost per injection ??? $0.40-0.75, including all supplies
How many practitioners are using it?
??? Very few. (Only one on East Coast- MG)
Head to Head Comparison
Not available. Some anecdotal stories. Except…
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Summary
• Do not avoid patients with psychiatric conditions and substance abuse, just bee careful.
• If you have a licensure to inject, consider injectable apitoxin: it is easy and reliable to use.
• Spread the good word about how effective honey bee venom therapy is!!!
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Questions???•Questions??•Questions?