Apitherapy%20and%20Psychiatry%20Honey%20Bee%20Venom%20Usage%20for%20Psychiatric%20Patients

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Apitherapy and PsychiatryHoney Bee VenomUsage
for Psychiatric Patients

• Michael Gurevich, MD
• HolisticMD.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
Michael I. Gurevich, M.D. HolisticMD.org Diplomat American Board of Psychiatry Diplomat American Board of Addiction Psychiatry Diplomat American Board of Holistic Medicine Certified in Acupuncture, EMDR Additional training in Applied Psycho Neurobiology Autonomic Response Testing Kinesiological testing Neural Therapy Honey Bee Venom Therapy Orthomolecular medicine Institute of Functional Medicine Guided Imagery Systemic Family Constellation (Hellinger method) Meditation Yoga 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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Psychiatry

• Conventional vs. vs. vs. vs.
• Holistic

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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. Whats your Dx?

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Conventional psychiatryThe Power of Diagnosis

• 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 lt15 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 lt18 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.
• Lechters antenna and Bioresonance Analysis of
  Health (BAH).
• Medical diagnosis- is not important in resolving
  patients 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
  gt10 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 gt 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
Groups Remission 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 BAHs 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 Venom
Potency/ storage Depending on season, area, storage, how long applied, etc. Predictable, standardized, easy to store, long shelf life
All BV fractions Yes No
Administration easiness speed Cumbersome Easy and fast
Honey Bees fate Sacrificed Minimal effect
Pain Moderate to severe Mild to moderate
Who 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 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?