05:07Patients in Iraq are embracing alternative medicine, with bee sting therapy creating a real buzz on the streets of Mosul.
Mustafa Kanaan Bashir, head of the Bee Sting Therapy Committee at the Complementary Medicine Syndicate in Nineveh, offers this all-natural treatment for patients with even ‘chronic and incurable’ diseases in Mosul.
Footage shows Bashir in his private clinic performing an allergy test on patients, treating patients suffering from chronic pain, and visiting his beekeeping farm.
"All illnesses linked to microbiological body diseases, as well as any immune diseases and systemic diseases, can be treated with bee stings,” Bashir claimed.
"When a patient comes to us for the first session of bee sting therapy, we administer a test sting,” noted Bashir, adding that if the patient doesn’t have ‘sensitivity or itching’ then it shows the patient ‘does not have a toxic allergy to bee stings’.
“The second session starts in two or three days, and after that, we progressively increase the number of stings," he explained.
Bashir said that bee sting therapy ‘has a very promising future’ and ‘can serve as a substitute for the majority’ of other treatments. Patients at the clinic are also enthusiastic about the treatment, with Ibrahim Saeed undergoing his seventh month of therapy.
"I began undergoing bee stings to the spine due to a vertebral slippage that affects my left thigh,” he said, noting he has had more than 80 stings to date for the back issue and a cataract in his left eye.
“Praise be to God, the pain in my spine has decreased by 80 per cent” he concluded.
Despite anecdotal evidence from patients about the effectiveness of bee sting therapy, doctors remain sceptical and warn of potentially damaging side effects of the treatment.
Bee gentle, doc! Sting therapy creating a buzz in Iraq’s Mosul
Patients in Iraq are embracing alternative medicine, with bee sting therapy creating a real buzz on the streets of Mosul.
Mustafa Kanaan Bashir, head of the Bee Sting Therapy Committee at the Complementary Medicine Syndicate in Nineveh, offers this all-natural treatment for patients with even ‘chronic and incurable’ diseases in Mosul.
Footage shows Bashir in his private clinic performing an allergy test on patients, treating patients suffering from chronic pain, and visiting his beekeeping farm.
"All illnesses linked to microbiological body diseases, as well as any immune diseases and systemic diseases, can be treated with bee stings,” Bashir claimed.
"When a patient comes to us for the first session of bee sting therapy, we administer a test sting,” noted Bashir, adding that if the patient doesn’t have ‘sensitivity or itching’ then it shows the patient ‘does not have a toxic allergy to bee stings’.
“The second session starts in two or three days, and after that, we progressively increase the number of stings," he explained.
Bashir said that bee sting therapy ‘has a very promising future’ and ‘can serve as a substitute for the majority’ of other treatments. Patients at the clinic are also enthusiastic about the treatment, with Ibrahim Saeed undergoing his seventh month of therapy.
"I began undergoing bee stings to the spine due to a vertebral slippage that affects my left thigh,” he said, noting he has had more than 80 stings to date for the back issue and a cataract in his left eye.
“Praise be to God, the pain in my spine has decreased by 80 per cent” he concluded.
Despite anecdotal evidence from patients about the effectiveness of bee sting therapy, doctors remain sceptical and warn of potentially damaging side effects of the treatment.
Patients in Iraq are embracing alternative medicine, with bee sting therapy creating a real buzz on the streets of Mosul.
Mustafa Kanaan Bashir, head of the Bee Sting Therapy Committee at the Complementary Medicine Syndicate in Nineveh, offers this all-natural treatment for patients with even ‘chronic and incurable’ diseases in Mosul.
Footage shows Bashir in his private clinic performing an allergy test on patients, treating patients suffering from chronic pain, and visiting his beekeeping farm.
"All illnesses linked to microbiological body diseases, as well as any immune diseases and systemic diseases, can be treated with bee stings,” Bashir claimed.
"When a patient comes to us for the first session of bee sting therapy, we administer a test sting,” noted Bashir, adding that if the patient doesn’t have ‘sensitivity or itching’ then it shows the patient ‘does not have a toxic allergy to bee stings’.
“The second session starts in two or three days, and after that, we progressively increase the number of stings," he explained.
Bashir said that bee sting therapy ‘has a very promising future’ and ‘can serve as a substitute for the majority’ of other treatments. Patients at the clinic are also enthusiastic about the treatment, with Ibrahim Saeed undergoing his seventh month of therapy.
"I began undergoing bee stings to the spine due to a vertebral slippage that affects my left thigh,” he said, noting he has had more than 80 stings to date for the back issue and a cataract in his left eye.
“Praise be to God, the pain in my spine has decreased by 80 per cent” he concluded.
Despite anecdotal evidence from patients about the effectiveness of bee sting therapy, doctors remain sceptical and warn of potentially damaging side effects of the treatment.