Background

Apitherapy represents a certain form of complementary and alternative medicine that uses bee products in combination with other methods from this field. One of the basic concepts of this type of medicine is that all diseases can be treated using apitherapy. This study was performed to assess the recommendations from authors of books on apitherapy regarding the treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis and compare them to findings from the scientific literature.

Methods

One hundred and twenty-nine books on apitherapy were analysed regarding recommendations for allergic seasonal rhinitis. Scientific evidence regarding the efficacy of using various bee products was searched via PubMed and JUSTfind.

Results

Only 38.8% of the apitherapy books mentioned seasonal allergic rhinitis. Among these books, we found 29 different recommendations in favour of bee products and one against the use of honey. The most reasonable recommendation according to clinical studies on the subject, namely the use of a mix of honey and pollen, was only found once (0.8%).

Conclusions

The large discrepancies and number of different recommendations demonstrate that apitherapy is not a consistent type of medicine. The recommendations regarding seasonal allergic rhinitis in the vast majority of apitherapy books cannot be considered adequate when compared to the scientific findings.

中文翻译：

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季节性过敏性鼻炎和蜂疗的作用。

背景

蜂疗代表了某种形式的补充和替代医学，它将蜂产品与该领域的其他方法结合使用。这种药物的基本概念之一是所有疾病都可以使用蜂疗来治疗。本研究旨在评估蜂疗书籍作者关于季节性过敏性鼻炎治疗的建议，并将其与科学文献中的发现进行比较。

方法

针对过敏性季节性鼻炎的建议，分析了 129 本书关于蜂疗的书籍。通过 PubMed 和 JUSTfind 搜索了有关使用各种蜂产品功效的科学证据。

结果

只有 38.8% 的蜂疗书籍提到了季节性过敏性鼻炎。在这些书中，我们发现了 29 种不同的建议，赞成使用蜂产品，另一种建议反对使用蜂蜜。根据对该主题的临床研究，最合理的建议，即使用蜂蜜和花粉的混合物，仅发现一次 (0.8%)。

结论

巨大的差异和不同建议的数量表明蜂疗不是一种一致的药物类型。与科学发现相比，绝大多数蜂疗书籍中关于季节性过敏性鼻炎的建议不能被认为是充分的。