Editing Bee (section)

=== As alternative medicine ===

[[Apitherapy]] is a branch of [[alternative medicine]] that uses honey bee products, including [[raw honey]], [[royal jelly]], pollen, [[propolis]], [[beeswax]] and [[apitoxin]] (Bee [[venom]]).<ref name=MedicineWorld>{{cite web |url=http://medicineworld.org/alternative/apitherapy/what-is-apitherapy.html |title=What is apitherapy? |publisher=MedicineWorld.Org |access-date=20 January 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618182834/http://medicineworld.org/alternative/apitherapy/what-is-apitherapy.html |archive-date=18 June 2015}}</ref> The claim that apitherapy treats cancer, which some proponents of apitherapy make, remains unsupported by [[evidence-based medicine]].<ref name=Cass>{{cite book |last1=Barry R. |first1=Cassileth |author-link=Barrie R. Cassileth |title=The Complete Guide to Complementary Therapies in Cancer Care: Essential Information for Patients, Survivors and Health Professionals |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J6kLNKw5baYC&pg=PA221 |year=2011 |publisher=World Scientific |isbn=978-981-4335-66-9 |pages=221–224 |chapter=Chapter 36: Apitherapy |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307071311/https://books.google.com/books?id=J6kLNKw5baYC&pg=PA221 |archive-date=7 March 2017}}</ref><ref name=Ades2009>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E8aHAAAACAAJ&pg=704 |title=American Cancer Society Complete Guide to Complementary and Alternative Cancer Therapies |publisher=American Cancer Society |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-944235-71-3 |editor1-last=Ades |editor1-first=Terri B. |edition=2nd |pages=[https://archive.org/details/americancancerso0000unse/page/704 704–708] |chapter=Chapter 9: Pharmacologic and Biologic Therapies |editor2-last=Russel |editor2-first=Jill |url=https://archive.org/details/americancancerso0000unse/page/704 }}</ref>