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The benefits of apitherapy

Kos Island is full of remarkable gastronomic adventures. A tour into the island’s few honey and bee keeping units will allow you to not only taste the island’s organic honey, but also buy some honey and beeswax products, like, propolis, royal jelly, herbs, soaps and many more. Visitors are able to familiarise with the Greek beekeeping tradition, try natural beehive products or pay a visit to the beekeeping house and enjoy the benefits of apitherapy. Visitors can sit back and watch bees do their magic, as they work inside the hives, monitoring their daily tasks, listen to the stress-relieving buzzing of the bees, and breathe in the air of the hive to improve their well-being.

Get to know the bee products and healing properties coming from the nutritious honey of the land of Kos. It is no secret that honey as well as bee products have been referred to as medicine since antiquity. In fact, Hippocrates himself, ancient Greek physician and father of modern medicine born in Kos, believed that bee’s sting was beneficial in conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and noted the benefits of effects of honey and bee products as "causing heat, cleansing wounds and ulcers, softening hard sores on lips, nourishing wounds". Today, honey and bee products are used in various ways, either to improve physical and mental health, or into various cosmetic products.