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Breakthrough honeybee drugs to treat Colony Collapse Disorder (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

But some skeptics questioned the need for using mental health drugs on honeybees. When ConPfuzer's Dr. Pollen was asked how such simple, tiny brains could be diagnosed with a behavioral disorder, he offered a stinging response. "No brain is too small to understand the need for psychiatric medicine!" Side effect warning signs: Honeybesity Side effects from Buzzalin are already starting to emerge. honeybees that continue to take the drug for more than one month begin to experience significant weight gain, and many are being diagnosed with a new disease called, Honeybesity.

ConPfuzier has also funded a Colony Collapse Disorder support group that's designed to "keep honeybees on our drugs forever" while telling them they're actually getting well. A nationwide "Run For the Cure" event is also being organized that involves disturbing a hive of killer Africanized bees and watching them chase gullible consumers around a football field while they cough up cash for every mile survived. Behind closed doors, Big Pharma executives are drooling over the market opportunities that have emerged from Colony Collapse Disorder.

The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine: The Ultimate Multidisciplinary Reference to the Amazing Realm of Healing Plants, in a Quick-study, One-stop Guide Brigitte Mars, A.H.G. See book keywords and concepts

The bluish purple flowers produce nectar throughout the day and attract hummingbirds, butterflies, and honeybees. The plant prefers moist conditions in open woods and prairies and along lakes, streams, and ditches. ASHWAGANDHA Botanical Name Withania somnifera Family Solanaceae (Nightshade Family) Etymology The common name translates from the Sanskrit ashva, "horse," and gandha, "smells like," which alludes to the virility of a horse. The species name, somnifera, indicates that the herb is a soporific agent.

Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods Jeffrey M. Smith See book keywords and concepts

Smith Short duration studies are also used for environmental evaluations Freese and Schubert "Feeding studies designed to detect potential effects of GE pesticidal proteins on non-target insects such as honeybees are often too short to give meaningful results, for instance nine days.103 However, the EPA often accepts such inadequate studies as substantiating the hypothesis that GE pesticidal proteins are not harmful to insects at the tested doses.104 Hilbeck and Meier105 recommend full life-cycle testing to detect sub-lethal and long-term effects.

Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs Melody Petersen See book keywords and concepts

Instead, they focused like honeybees circling a picnic cake on products for what they called chronic disorders. These were drugs that did not cure but "managed" diseases as patients took them once a day for the rest of their lives. It was investors who drove the companies' push to medicate America on a daily basis. Wall Street analysts grilled the pharmaceutical executives about their marketing campaigns during conference calls held every three months. Were they hiring more sales reps? When would that new advertising campaign that executives had promised begin?

Breakthrough honeybee drugs to treat Colony Collapse Disorder (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

About Colony Collapse Disorder: This disease, also known as ADHBee, is caused by a brain chemistry imbalance in honeybees that makes them act like teenagers: They don't come home on time, and even when they do show up, they smell like pollen and refuse to say where they've been. Although this article is a joke, the disorder is real, and honeybee populations are collapsing all across North America and Europe. Click here to read our previous article on Colony Collapse Disorder or click here to read the Wikipedia entry.

The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine: The Ultimate Multidisciplinary Reference to the Amazing Realm of Healing Plants, in a Quick-study, One-stop Guide Brigitte Mars, A.H.G. See book keywords and concepts

Other Uses Neem oil is used as a pesticide and fungicide that kills bacteria and over 200 types of insects and fungi but is harmless to honeybees and vertebraes. The leaves can be placed in grain bins, beds, books, cupboards, suitcases, and closets to repel bugs. The dried plant can be burned as a fumigating incense. In cosmetics neem acts a preservative, as well as benefiting many skin conditions. The seeds of neem are being investigated as a possible male and female contraceptive. Neem wood is used in woodworking. A gum that exudes from the bark is used to dye silk.

Breakthrough honeybee drugs to treat Colony Collapse Disorder (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Overweight honeybees don't fly very well," explained Adrew Apis, a honeybee researcher working at the University of Missouri, Columbia. "Even if they make it out to the flower and collect some pollen, they sort of crash land back in the hive like a damaged fighter jet on an aircraft carrier, spilling their pollen granules all over the inside of the hive and getting their wings stuck in the honey." But ConPfuzer has promised to come up with a new drug to treat Honeybesity. "Our goal is to end Honeybesity by making beekeepers pay the highest prices in the world for Buzzalin," explained Dr.

We have discovered that honeybees are suffering from a brain chemistry disorder," said Dr. B. Pollen, a top researcher at the company. "Our new drug, Buzzalin, has been clinically shown to control the symptoms of Colony Collapse Disorder while causing no more than two percent of the bees to commit suicide," Dr. Pollen explained. Drug development tests were conducted on thousands of bees in the Midwest. Normally, 72 percent of bees suffering from Colony Collapse Disorder become mysteriously disoriented and cannot find their way back to the hive.

We see huge market opportunites in honeybees, spiders, ants and bed mites. Of course, we will also pursue new opportunities for drugging human infants and newborns, but the real growth in selling drugs will be found in turning insects into patients," the press release reported. All that remains is convincing the public that bees actually have mental health diseases requiring chemical treatment. This is being accomplished through Big Pharma's new campaign that claims: "Insects are people, too!

Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You Andreas Moritz See book keywords and concepts

Would you have ever guessed that this delicious food made by honeybees is actually one of mankind's oldest-known medicines? Dating as far back as 5,000 years, honey has been successfully used to treat burns, coughs and ulcers. Hippocrates, the Greek physician, also praised honey's healing powers and came up with many honey-based treatments for ailments such as skin disorders, ulcers and sores. In World War I, German physicians used a mixture of honey and cod liver oil to treat gunshot wounds.

Honeybee colony collapse disorder: Alternative causes still being explored Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

And yet, this shortage of honeybees in the continental U.S. has already proven to be an economic hardship on crop owners from California to the New England states, and it will most likely continue to affect even more of the American public in immeasurable ways if a solution is not found soon.

Animals are smarter than humans when it comes to feeding their children (opinion) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Birds find grubs, worms and insects to feed their young, honeybees painstakingly collect pollen and create a nutrient-rich superfood that gives rise to a living queen bee, and even dogs, cats and cows try to find the most nutrient-rich foods to offer their offspring. But humans? Most of them "reward" their children with junk food, sugary sodas, candy laced with petrochemical coloring additives and refined sugars that promote obesity and diabetes.

Honeybee colony collapse disorder: Alternative causes still being explored Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Scientists consider this to be another piece of evidence pointing to the fact that something has gone terribly wrong with the global ecosystem, and the disappearance of millions of honeybees around the world is no coincidence. "I believe it causes something like Alzheimer's," said J.D. Hill, a commercial beekeeper from Muldrow, OK. "The bees go out and find a patch of flowers. Then they bring some of the pollen from the flower patch back to the hive and tell the other bees about it and they all then go to the flower patch. But something is disrupting their memory.

Handbook of Medicinal Plants Amarjit S. Basra See book keywords and concepts

Addressing this same issue in a somewhat different way, Kartesz characterized a number of taxa that commonly attract butterflies, honeybees, or hummingbirds. Combining the three categories, 14 percent of drug plants attract these seekers of nectar, whereas only 4 percent of the nondrug plants do (x2 = 498.6, p - 0.0000). These animals are commonly found on sweet-smelling plants with large or vivid flowers and ample nectaries, or with high apparency. Medicinal plants tend to be attractors. Some complex interactions are occurring here; these are not discrete categories.

Medicinal plants will tend to be more abundant than are plants not used medicinally; they will be perennials, not annuals; they will be more widespread than others; they will be long-lived (in particular, they will be trees); and they will tend to be visible and showy, with distinctive dowers, leaves, foliage, or smell—the kinds of plants that we put in (lower gardens and that tend to attract animals that collect nectar (hummingbirds, honeybees, butterflies).

The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D. See book keywords and concepts

Honeybees make possible the reproduction of more than 80 percent of the world's grains, fruits, vegetables, and legumes. The remaining male pollen is collected and brought to the hive, where the bees add enzymes and nectar to the pollen. Bee pollen is comprised of tiny, golden yellow to dark brown granules that have a delicate flavor and aroma that varies according to the plant pollen it was made from and is used as a nutritive tonic as well as to desensitize seasonal allergies.

Textures and flavor are dependent "^Hfc*-^ on which flowers the honeybees HHHpl^. choose. Typical choices include V^llPa^' heather, alfalfa, clover, and the \r\ acacia flower. Less common but well-known flowers that confer their own special taste characteristics on the honey include thyme and lavender. In addition to honey, bees produce bee pollen, propolis, and royal jelly. These products concentrate many phytochemicals with powerful health-promoting activity. Yet, for the most part, these foods have been underappreciated and underutilized in North America.

Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health Joseph E. Mario See book keywords and concepts

Honeybees wax pollen with honey to form carryable pellets, and allergy-causing substances are neutralized. Pollen stimulates the production of Interferon fighting viral infections, and two antibiotic compounds that are fast-acting bacteriostatic and antibiotic sterilizers killing bacteria on contact, microbes of salmonella (typhoid types), Escherichia coli, and colibaccillus.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

Beetles, butterflies, and honeybees are part of coevolved "pollinator complexes" that make sure each flowering species gets exactly the attention it needs. Imagine having to hire human laborers to do this work with Q-tips, in the largest agricultural jobs program ever conceived. We would fail abysmally. "Millions of years of coevolution have finely tuned the relations between particular plants and their special pollinators," says biologist Edward O. Wilson (Buchmann and Nabhan 1997). But today, populations of wild pollinators are declining nearly everywhere on earth.

Emerging technology is not the answer to the world's social and economic problems Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

What we see is just a small fraction of what's available in the electromagnetic spectrum. Even honeybees see more then we do. Other animals hear at much higher frequencies than we do. What we feel, touch and taste are basically just very crude representations of what's going on around us. It's all interpreted in our heads through a system of filters, beliefs and distortions, and then it becomes a memory. So, memory is not at all a representation of what's going on in the world.

Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements Phyllis A. Balch, CNC See book keywords and concepts

INSECT ALLERGY There are only a few stinging insects in the United States that can cause an allergic reaction: honeybees, hornets, yel-lowjackets, bumblebees, wasps, and ants. Insects of the group known as hymenoptera, which includes bees, wasps, hornets, and ants, cause an allergic reaction in 5 out of 1,000 people. This reaction is known as an insect venom allergy, and it can be dangerous, even life threatening. The yellow jacket and honeybee are the cause of most allergic reactions to insects.

Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide Ben-Erik van Wyk See book keywords and concepts

The leaves contain a chemical compound (terpenoid) that acts as a pheromone to attract bees, hence the name melissa, the Greek name for honeybees. Commercial production occurs in various parts of southern, central and eastern Europe. Parts used Fresh or dried leaves. Cultivation & harvesting Plants grow easily from seeds or cuttings and are seen in almost every herb garden around the world. Fresh leaves are picked for culinary use and to add colour to cocktails.

The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D. See book keywords and concepts

Pollination is primarily done by domestic honeybees. The cultivated species grown in the northern United States and southern Canada bears a larger berry than the European cranberry or southern cranberry, which are the wild species native to the eastern United States. The cranberry has often been referred to as the "crane berry" or "bounce berry," since the cranberry's shrub's pale pink blossom often resemble the head of cranes that haunt the cranberry bogs or the ripe berry can bounce. HISTORY The North American cranberry has an extensive and celebrated history.

Food, Inc. Mendel to Monsanto - The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest Peter Pringle See book keywords and concepts

These included birds, fish, honeybees, ladybugs, parasitic wasps, lacewings, springtails, aquatic invertebrates, and earthworms. The EPA had concluded there were "no reasonable adverse effects" to humans, the environment, or any organism that Bt was not supposed to kill.10 Scientists knew that Bt toxins could be harmful to the larvae of lepidoptera, but the EPA had looked primarily at exposure of larvae from eating leaf tissue, not pollen. The agency had considered the possibility of pollen drift from Bt cornfields but concluded that the pollen was not toxic, even at relatively high doses.

Whole Foods Companion: A Guide For Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and lovers of natural foods Dianne Onstad See book keywords and concepts

A rather coarse low herb, it is always popular because of this pleasant fragrance and is the special joy of honeybees, which are forever delving into its small white or yellowish flowers. An important herb in the monastic apothecary gardens, balm has a venerable history of use as both a healing herb and as part of a drink to ensure longevity. Balm / Nutritional Value Per 100 g Edible Portion Seed Seed Protein 29.3 e Eat 11.5 s Culinary Uses Balm has a lemony scent and imparts a lemon-mint, honey-sweet flavor to salads, salad dressings, iced tea, and fruit drinks.

Prescription for Herbal Healing: An Easy-to-Use A-Z Reference to Hundreds of Common Disorders and Their Herbal Remedies Phyllis A. Balch, CNC See book keywords and concepts

This will work with bumblebee stings also, although bumblebees seldom leave their stingers while honeybees always do. LM Do not pull out a tick that is embedded in the skin. If ticks are removed in this way, the heads are often left behind. Instead, try to suffocate the tick by covering it with petroleum jelly or mineral oil. If the tick does not release at once, wait twenty minutes and pull it out with —I Green tea and Scutellaria can prevent infections with either the A or B strain of influenza.

Optimal Wellness Ralph Golan, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

The venom is scraped from the diaphragm of honeybees, processed, sterilized, and bottled for use. The traditional folk medicine approach used by beekeepers and by some health professionals today is to apply a honeybee (held in tweezers) to a specific area of the body, where the bee will sting and inject its venom. After the individual has been tested for bee venom allergy, a gradually increasing number of stings or injections are given on a regular schedule, usually two or three times a week for twelve to sixteen visits.

The Herbal Drugstore Linda B. White, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Stinging insects include fire ants, honeybees, hornets, and wasps. These bugs inject venom when they strike. If they sting you inside the mouth or throat, if you receive multiple stings, or if you develop a serious allergic reaction, seek immediate medical attention. A serious allergic reaction is one that results in severe local swelling, hives, nausea, vomiting, stomach cramps, wheezing or other breathing problems, difficulty swallowing, or swelling of the lips, face, eyes, or tongue. Basic Bug-Bite First-aid Washing an insect bite with soap and water usually prevents infection.

Do We Still Need Doctors?: A Physician's Personal Account of Practicing Medicine Today John D. Lantos, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

They kept sheep, honeybees, and chickens; heated their house with wood; canned tomatoes; lived simply. At night, we could see stars and listen to cicadas. On the south side of Chicago, where we live, we put our kids to bed each night to the sound of sirens and, occasionally, of distant gunfire. When the kids got to the farm, they became different, more relaxed and open. Bethann prepared a wonderful picnic for the family reunion. About twenty-five uncles and cousins, nephews and nieces feasted on fresh-picked corn on the cob, fried chicken, enchiladas, salad right out of the garden.

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