Bee stings are therapeutic, but do they actively seek out sick people?

Paradoxically, stings of the order hymenoptera have been shown to be generally therapeutic for humans. The colloquial expression of this: "beekeepers never get arthritis."

There is a specialty called apitherapy that uses bees and bee products for enhancing human health. There have been various standard medical studies showing that bee sting therapy in particular is effective, this one looks at its "adverse effects" (anaphylactic shock in the worst case).

So bee stings (and wasp and yellow jacket stings too, but these two are just harder to manage than are bees) have been used to treat arthritis and other conditions for millennia.

But this doesn't mean that bees actively seek out sick people to sting, does it?



Here's another story (possibly the origin of this Youtube story above?) by somebody saved from Lyme Disease by bee stings ...

Readers? Ever hear of any such story?

A mainstream article on Reiki

Venerable magazine The Atlantic magazine published a not-too-skeptical article on Reiki recently ...

No surprise; it turns out there is a bunch of scientific evidence that Reiki works, but no theory as to why it works.

One part of the Atlantic article that leapt out to me: veterans whose "body had forgotten how to sleep" were asleep on the Reiki table in minutes ...

My Lovely Wife is an insomniac:

But maybe after a few Reiki sessions she could learn to sleep more like this:

We'll have to give this a try!

A precognitive dream? Maybe ...

I have been interviewing for jobs lately and really need to go back to work as soon as possible as I have payments (including rent) coming up the first of next month.

This came up in my dreams, though, when I got a very clear message:

It won't happen until after the 18th

And in fact: I got the initial acceptance call on the 16th and the first actual paperwork acceptance ... on the 19th.

I'll have to watch for other messages carefully!