- Title: 'Bee-therapy' centre creates a buzz in Lithuania
- Date: 8th August 2019
- Summary: KAUNETISKES VILLAGE, LITHUANIA (AUGUST 2, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SQUARE COMBS COVERED WITH BEES BEING LIFTED UP OWNER OF BEE THERAPY CENTRE, ZIDRUNAS JAPERTAS, LOOKING AT BEES ON COMB JAPERTAS' FINGER POINTING AT BEES ON COMB VARIOUS OF COMB BEING PUT INTO WOODEN SLATES JAPERTAS PUTTING BOARD OVER ROW OF COMBS JAPERTAS CLOSING TOP OF BED OVER COMBS JAPERTAS' FACE / JAP
- Embargoed: 22nd August 2019 09:39
- Keywords: bee therapy apitherapy bee hives alternative therapy Lithuania
- Location: KAUNETISKES VILLAGE, LITHUANIA
- City: KAUNETISKES VILLAGE, LITHUANIA
- Country: Lithuania
- Topics: Living / Lifestyle,Society/Social Issues,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA001ARCWYT5
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:An alternative form of therapy treatment, where people lie on beds over beehives, is creating a buzz in Lithuania.
The treatments aptly called 'bee-therapy' claims to soothe away pain and treat many other ailments with the energy created by bees flapping their wings. Users of the unusual treatment believe the air around a beehive can lower blood pressure and ease breathing difficulties.
Zidrunas Japertas who runs a bee-therapy centre in Kaunetiskes Village, in northern Lithuania, says he became a convert to the treatment seven years ago after using it to ease his own back pain.
Despite his friends initially being skeptical of his therapy centre, Japertas says some 500 clients visit between May and September each year.
Bee therapy fan Ramunas Tarvydas, who was receiving treatment at the centre recently, says he believes the bees are attracted to people's pain and draw it out of them.
The sensation feels like pins and needles, he added.
The alternative medicine treatment of apitherapy uses all bee-related products, including honey, propolis - or bee glue used to build hives - and venom for varying ailments.
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