Bee Venom to Cure Chronic Lyme Disease?
Bee venom contains a number of potent peptides which are responsible for its healing effect, in fact recent research proved that one of the peptides in bee venom, melittin, seems to be the hero in this story.
Melittin has a strong inhibitory effect on the Lyme spirochete at very low doses (“Bee Stings as Lyme Inhibitor” by L. L. Lubke and C. F. Garon, J. Clin. Infect. Diseases, July 1997, 25 Suppl. 1, pp. 48-51).
When the spirochete is inhibited it does not multiply and is vulnerable to the host’s own immune system and to medication. (Melittin Effective Against Infections Organism. By Drs. L Lubke & C. Garon)
The anti microbial agent melittin exhibits powerful in vitro inhibitory effects on the Lyme disease spirochete.
Even though Lyme has demonstrated a capacity to resist the in virto effects of powerful eukaryotic and prokaryotic metabolic inhibitors. However, treatment of laboratory cultures on Barbour-Stoenner-Kelly medium with melittin, a 26 amino acid peptide contained in honeybee venom, showed immediate and profound inhibitory effects when they were monitor by dark field microscopy, field emission scanning electron microscopy, and optical density measurements.
Furthermore, at melittin concentrations as low as 100 mcg/ml, virtually all spirochete motility ceased within seconds of inhibitor addition.
