Why bee venom?

Kindly let me greet you with a universal peace greeting, Assalamu 'alaikum warahmatullahi wabaraktuh which is mean peace be upon you!

Nowadays, everybody is talking about peace but the issue is, how to be peace and what should we do to promote peace? Is it hard to arrive at the peace station?


Ops.... i'm not going to discuss what peace is all about as well as where to find the road for peace. Perhaps, i feel that i've a very big responsibility to promote, create awareness and educate as much people as i can about bee venom.

Yes, it's the venom from the bee(s). So what? What's so important and interesting to discover about bee venom?

Aren't venom(s) are poisonous? Why not? You can refer to any pharmacology or toxicology text book(s) including wikipedia and the latest dictionary published, venom is broadly defined as a substance which is toxic to life.

So, why bee venom? In fact, it's well known to induce inflammation when the person get stung. You can see the sign of inflammation such as swelling, redness, pain and hot at the area which the bee stung.

In fact, i've personal experienced which my whole body got swelling, hot and itching when i got stung by the bee at my neck. I still remembered, that time, i was riding a motorcycle and i saw an insect flying around me. Suddenly i feel pain at my neck and i realized i was stung by that insect.

Quickly i stopped and parked my motorbike beside the road near the student hostel, 11 residential college UM. I removed the sting apparatus quickly and realized that the insect which stung me just now is a bee.

Oh, bee again. Bee is very close to my heart since when i was started working as a research assistant and we are working on purity and quality analysis of Malaysian honey. In fact, honey is my pre-breakfast food which i consume almost everyday including before i close my eye during night time.

Why honey? Very simple answer, same as simple as the sugar contain in honey. Glucose and fructose is the major sugar of honey. Fort example, below is the structure of glucose.

Why we eat carbohydrate such as rice, bread and etc? To get glucose. Why? Our cell(s) need glucose. Glucose is like a fuel for our cell to perform their function.

Amazingly, our brain and spinal cord is covered by epithelial cell called blood brain barrier. Foreign materials such as bacteria, parasite and anything that detected as foreign by our normal body system can't enter or penentrate the blood brain barrier.

You know what? Glucose can penetrate the barrier and act as a food for our brain cell! Aren't honey is a foreign material? Aren't glucose in honey is a foreign material too? But our cell need a glucose.

Without glucose, our brain cant function and we may expose to mental retardness. Normally, we got our glucose supply constantly from carbohydrate metabolism and gluconeogenesis. But this process (carbohydrate metabolism) take a long time because it's involve a lot of mechanism and biochemical pathway.

Since honey is riched with glucose, it can directly enter our blood system from our villus, and thus, after a few biochemical process, it's provide instant energy as well as enhance and stimulate the effectiveness of our immune system.

But of course, honey can't be consume in a large amount and must be taken in moderate quantity, same as the homeostasis concept which keep regulate our body function normally.

Everything must be in moderate but except one, good deeds which we have to do aggresively in order to make ourself among the success people in this life and the life after death.

But for those who interested to know more about what do i mean by carbohydrate metabolism, you can get this wonderful and meaningful book from UM book shop.

So, do you get the answer? Why bee venom? Wait for my next posting, insya-allah (god-willing). Why have to say insya-allah (god-willing)? Very beautiful and nice text available in Holy Quran, chapter 18, verses 23-24. Have look!