Bees Don't Get Arthritis Author:Fred Malone No, "Bees Don't Get Arthritis" is not a book of insect jokes. It's a well-researched and surprisingly entertaining investigation into the healing powers of various products of the honeybee that are beginning to attract the attention of the medical profession -- particularly in Europe and Russia, where the folk medicine taboo se... more »ems to be slowly lifting. These bee products include honey, pollen and propolis (a reain the bees use as glue), and the afflictions they are said to cure or help range from warts and asthma to cataracts and Hodgkin's Disease. But the book's major focus is on what appears to be a near miracle-cure for arthritis -- bee stings.« less