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Originally this was going to be a reply to phoenixxavierre at the end of this thread where he said:
<I>I've handled wild caught Trachycormocephalus species and was bitten. It wasn't all that concerned about me holding it and was very curious about investigating my hand, but it WAS hungry, and that was my mistake. I failed to feed it before I handled it. It had been fed before that, but wasn't "filled to capacity", lol! It decided I was worthy of a "taste." hehe! It got comfortable on my hand and decided to bite me on the area where my thumb knuckle is. It bit me where I had a "wart" type growth, some scar tissue (can't remember what it was from, I think a cut that later sort of turned into a wartlike scarred area). The area that was pronounced there actually diminished in size after the bite, as if it's bite "cured" the area of skin. Strange!</I>
This reminded me of this article (scroll down a bit) I found a while ago about a man who experiences relief from his arthrithis by allowing centipedes to bite him.
Bee venom has been used for various conditions in the past, and people haven't completely analysed the compositions of a lot of venoms yet, so who knows what sort of potential - beyond causing pain, they could have?
Neat huh?
Greensleeves
<I>I've handled wild caught Trachycormocephalus species and was bitten. It wasn't all that concerned about me holding it and was very curious about investigating my hand, but it WAS hungry, and that was my mistake. I failed to feed it before I handled it. It had been fed before that, but wasn't "filled to capacity", lol! It decided I was worthy of a "taste." hehe! It got comfortable on my hand and decided to bite me on the area where my thumb knuckle is. It bit me where I had a "wart" type growth, some scar tissue (can't remember what it was from, I think a cut that later sort of turned into a wartlike scarred area). The area that was pronounced there actually diminished in size after the bite, as if it's bite "cured" the area of skin. Strange!</I>
This reminded me of this article (scroll down a bit) I found a while ago about a man who experiences relief from his arthrithis by allowing centipedes to bite him.
Bee venom has been used for various conditions in the past, and people haven't completely analysed the compositions of a lot of venoms yet, so who knows what sort of potential - beyond causing pain, they could have?
Neat huh?
Greensleeves