Transcript Honey bee venom talk 100112

Apitherapy and Psychiatry
Honey Bee Venom
Usage 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.
Challenge: should I give bee venom to
my psychiatric patients?
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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?
Psychiatry
Conventional
vs. vs. vs. vs.
Holistic
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 psychiatry
The 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 Psychiatry
The 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
treatment
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+ Non-Specific
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).
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.
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.
The 5 Levels of Healing – A Guide to
Diagnosis and Treatment
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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).
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.
Family feud:
• Life honey bee venom stings
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• Dried honey bee venom/ procaine
injections.
• Few thoughts and
• …lets just work together and support
each other .
Live Honey Bee Venom (BV) vs. Dried Honey
Bee Venom (Apitoxin)
Potency/ storage
Live Bee Venom
Dried Bee Venom
Depending on
Predictable,
season, area, storage, standardized, easy to
how long applied, etc. store, long shelf life
All BV fractions
Administration:
easiness & speed
Yes
Cumbersome
No
Easy and fast
Honey Bees fate
Pain
Who can
administer?
Sacrificed
Moderate to severe
Anybody
Minimal effect
Mild to moderate
Need a licensure to
inject & trained
patients
Live Honey Bee Venom (BV) vs. Dried Honey
Bee Venom (Apitoxin)
Bee venom supply
Cost per injection
How many
practitioners are
using it?
Head to Head
Comparison
Any bee keeper
???
???
Only few
manufactures in the
world
$0.40-0.75, including
all supplies
Very few. (Only one
on East Coast- MG)
Not available. Some anecdotal stories.
Except…
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!!!
Questions???
•Questions??
•Questions?