The wish we express most often towards each other is wishing somebody health - but at the same time we not always care for our health - not only out of stupidity, but also due to the lack of knowledge on how to live and where to find the source of health improvement "... nobody knows your taste unless you're gone" ("Na zdrowie" Jan Kochanowski).

We have numerous teachers of life and there are many ways they show us - but we still look with fear towards our future and new dangers for human health and life. That is why we more and more often look for help turning towards nature. We have free will in choosing our food but the influence of our habits, fashion, advertisements and living in a hurry are the reasons why we usually ignore the laws of nature choosing improper food. We eat too much meat, white flour, sugar and fat and that is why we get ill.

In this article I would like to draw your attention to a small house - beehive, where busy bees living for ages in symbiosis with men offer to us their wonders. Due to the advance in science as well as more and more precise research methods a wonderful source of valuable substances needed to men to preserve health has been found. This modern methods and interest of many scientists, doctors, pharmacists, practicians and hobbyist beekeepers allows us to speak about a new branch of therapy, Apitherapy.