Review Article
General study of honey bee venom Apis mellifera : A Review
- By Fatima Sadeq Jaafar, Suhad Hameed H. Albushabaa - 11 Jan 2025
- Journal of Applied Health Sciences and Medicine, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 12 - 18
- https://doi.org/10.58614/jahsm512
- Received: 12 August 2024; Accepted: 25 December 2024; Published: 11 January 2025
Abstract
Apitherapy is the medicinal application of honeybee products, such as Propolis, honey, pollen, beeswax, honey and, in particular bee venom. The aims of this paper were to review bee venom and it’s the composition and properties with giving an overview of the medical importance and applications; as well as describe the process of extraction and the safe storage of bee venom. Bee venom is a clear, bitter in taste, watery liquid and odor less, the bee secrete it when they feel threatened it has at least 18 pharmacologically active components including various enzymes, peptides and amines. Bee venom therapy is the therapy which utilizes the application of bee venom to treat various diseases and it has been used since ancient times in traditional medicine to treat kinds of rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis, suppressing oedema’, low back pain and as anti-inflammatory agent. Currently, special collectors gather bee venom for commercial use. as well as the several electrical collecting devices that have been created to collect it. Dried bee venom should be stored preferably frozen and it should always be kept in dark coloured bottles in the dark.