Report from the German
Apitherapy Society
First Propolis Congress
By
Dr. Stefan Stangaciu
Dear
Friends,
After our First Propolis Congress, Expo and Course organized in Passau, Holiday
Inn Hotel (March 26-30, 2004), we are happy to offer you a general view on our
event.
As most of you have seen in our websites (www.apitherapie.de and
www.apitherapy.com ) we have had a very complex program. We spoke 5 days long
only on Propolis but everybody has had the feeling that there is much more to
say. We have had excellent new speakers like Prof. Siegfried Ansorge (Regulatory
action of propolis on basic functions of human immune cells), Pharmacist Franz
Stibal (Practical experiences with Propolis in a Pharmacy), Bernhard Huber, N.D.
(Allergy-Testing by Klinghardt shown in the case of Propolis) from Germany,
Prof. Dr. Ivan Basic (Croatia) (Antitumor activity of propolis in experimental
tumor models (in vivo and in vitro), Assist. Prof. Mamdouh Abdulmaksoud Mohamed
Abdulrhman (Egypt) (Intravenous injections of Honey in Human Volunteers), Pedro
Plaja (Spain) (Use of Propolis through Stiperopuncture) and John Drakes from
United Kingdom (Our Clinical experience with Propolis). Our faithful friends
that have participated already to our first two international congresses on
Apitherapy (held also in Passau), Prof. Eberhard Bengsch (Aspects of the
Biochemistry of Propolis), Dr. (biol.) Andreas Stocker (Experiments with
microbiocidal flavonoids and visualisation of their uptake in microorganisms and
lymphocytes), Dr. Ludwig Kirmeier (Clinical experience with the use of a diluted
propolis solution in cases with chronically oto-rhino-laryngological and upper
respiratory infections), Dr. Michael Schuhbauer (Use of Propolis against
Pharyngo-tonsilitis and as a preventative agent against Lyme disease), Claudette
Raynal (France) (The propolis in Traditional Chinese Medicine: an Apienergising
Product), Pedro Perez Gomez (Spain) (Local use of Propolis to diminish the Pain
and Itch during Bee Sting Therapy) and Prof. Park (Brasil) (Isolation and
identification of some biologically active substances from Brazilian propolis),
came again with the best of their knowledge and friendship.
The Congress has been officially congratulated at its opening by Mr. Honorary
President of Apimondia, Prof. Raymond Borneck, by Dr. Hirofumi Naito (Public
Relation Officer in the Japanese Apitherapy Association) and by Mr. Johnson Koh
Tong Sin (representative of the International Apitherapy and Healthcare
Association presided by Prof. Fang Zhu from China).
Some of our authors have not been able to come to Passau, but sent us though
excellent papers. This is the case with Assoc. Prof. Vassya Bankova (Bulgaria)
(Important developments in recent propolis research), M. Sc. Julio César Bracho
Pérez (Perú) (Characterization of Propolis from Perú), Prof. Dr. B. Havsteen
(Denmark) (the Influence of Flavonoids on Cancer), Joachim Polik, N.D. (Germany)
(Use of Propolis combined with other therapy forms in the daily naturopathic
practice), Dr.vet. Mostafa Moradi (Iran) (Apiculture and Propolis therapy in
Iran and Determination of B. larvae susceptibility to propolis in Iran), Dr. A.
N. Shikov (Propolis in Russia: quality and application in traditional and
officinal medicine)
Our Propolis-Expo 2004 has had the honour to receive specialists and/or their
bee products and apitherapics coming besides from Germany (German Apitherapy
Society, Jakel Apiaries, Börner, Passau Beekeepers Club), from France
(Ballot-Flurin Apiculteurs, Laboratoire Landais, Pollenergie), Poland (Apipol),
Brazil (Nectar Farmaceutica, ApisFlora), Canada (Apitronic Services), Romania
(Mark International Ltd.) and UK (Bee Health).
Immediately after the Congress (March 29-30) we have organized an Intensive
Practical Apitherapy Course (9 hours long) for two groups: one speaking German
and the other one English. During this special Diploma Course we have had the
chance to review the information shared with us by our speakers during the
Congress and especially to explain the most important practical "secrets" of the
propolis therapy used in specific human or animal diseases.
Altogether we have had around 200 participants coming, besides Germany, from
other 22 countries: Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Denmark,
Egypt, France, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, UK and USA.
Our goal for the next Congress is to attract specialists and participants from
over 40 countries, so, if you like to feel the "pulse" of the European and
International Apitherapy, come to Germany next spring!
A very important news is that we decided to organize the Third German Apitherapy
Congress, Expo and Course again in Passau, Holiday Inn Hotel, this time one week
later: April 1-6, 2005. So, do insert in your 2005 calendar this important date.
Hope to see you and/or your best European friends there too.
We would like to finish our short report with an important "technical" proposal.
All of you having an E-mail address and wanting to join our future non-stop
"Apitherapy-Lists" (in German and/or in English, Spanish or French) please let
us know. We can be, in touch, through these special E-mail Lists, almost daily,
so if you still do not have an E-mail address, ask your local Internet Café
employee to get for you, free of charge, an e-mail address to "Yahoo" or
"Hotmail". See you soon!
Yours all,
Dr. Stefan Stangaciu
President of the German Apitherapy Society
Email: DrStangaciu@apitherapie.de
Web: www.apitherapie.de
Web: www.apitherapy.com
PS: those of you interested to order our updated First German Propolis
Congress-CD (having inside the abstracts/articles made by our authors/speakers)
please contact us directly by E-mail. Another important option is to join our
German Apitherapy Society and thus become one of our representatives in your
region/country. Hope to hear soon from you!”
