Treatment with bee products (apitherapy) is a method with a thousand-year history. Nowadays, it is the subject of numerous studies aimed at proving its therapeutic effectiveness. With the expansion of the clinical spectrum of influence, apitherapy can now be applied in the complex treatment of a variety of chronic diseases in conjunction with pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments. The purpose of this article is to study the possibilities of application of bee products for the purposes of prevention, prophylaxis, and complex therapy of chronic diseases.
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