00:00:04life are choosing to be stung by bees
00:00:06often dozens of times in one city show
00:00:12wrong Chen’s battling multiple sclerosis
00:00:15a disease which slowly causes the body’s
00:00:17nerve to deteriorate for six months I
00:00:20was bedridden I could not move I would
00:00:24have symptoms of tingling and numbness
00:00:26in my hands it was excruciating pain
00:00:31then show wrong heard about bee sting
00:00:34therapy for help she turned to mr. Cheng
00:00:37Yi Chen bee sting therapy master a
00:00:40trained master who has practiced bee
00:00:42sting therapy for 12 years every week
00:00:46mr. Chen and his assistants treat 200
00:00:49patients and sacrifice 6000 honeybees
00:00:52the results he says can be astounding
00:00:55after 600 bees you look five years
00:00:58younger than your contemporaries but can
00:01:03be stings really help show wrong fight
00:01:05multiple sclerosis she began an
00:01:08intensive course of therapy receiving
00:01:10over 200 stings a week for months on end
00:01:13honeybees only sting once and they died
00:01:16soon after
00:01:17but even separated from the bee the
00:01:19Stinger continues to inject venom into
00:01:21its victim the body responds with a
00:01:24flood of histamines and white blood
00:01:26cells and soon the area becomes hot red
00:01:30swollen and itchy
00:01:32anyone stay at home I don’t even
00:01:35time to feel the panel off he stinks me
00:01:38again and the pan lasts for one hour
00:01:41many think it is based on the five
00:01:43thousand-year-old practice of
00:01:45acupuncture a proven treatment for pain
00:01:48although today mr. Chen sees bee
00:01:50acupuncture as a labor of love even he
00:01:53once considered it taboo in fact like
00:01:56most of us he was afraid of bees thirty
00:01:59years ago mr. Chen was an executive for
00:02:01textiles company then his wife began to
00:02:04suffer from arthritic pain so severe she
00:02:06couldn’t cook or even stand up straight
00:02:10Western medicines didn’t do much good
00:02:12but when she told her husband she wanted
00:02:15to get stung by bees he thought the idea
00:02:17was ridiculous she’s with naturally is
00:02:20an educated man I was against it we just
00:02:24did not understand bees but mr. Chen
00:02:27completely changed his mind when he saw
00:02:29his wife’s sudden improvement after
00:02:32three months her red blood cell count
00:02:34increased her headache disappeared I was
00:02:39so surprised I decided to dive into this
00:02:42mysterious treatment and collect all the
00:02:45information that I could mr. Chen vowed
00:02:48to devote his life to bringing bee sting
00:02:50therapy to others after six months of B
00:02:53sting therapy show Rong Chen has seen a
00:02:56dramatic change she insists the therapy
00:02:59has relieved her multiple sclerosis and
00:03:01given her a new lease on life
00:03:03while most Western trained doctors would
00:03:05likely say her illness is in remission
00:03:07Cho Rong is convinced the stings have
00:03:10helped her walk again it will take years
00:03:13of study before we’ll know whether bee
00:03:15stings can relieve arthritis or multiple
00:03:17sclerosis or even the common cold
00:03:21but whether show wrongs recovery is in
00:03:23her head or her hands and feet for the
00:03:26first time in more than a year she feels
00:03:28she can resume living a therapy most of
00:03:31us would find taboo is allowing her to
00:03:34face the future with renewed hope
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