Program & Replays
Apitherapy: Medicine from the beehive
Join Tamara Wolfson, osteo-acupuncturist, herbalist, and the founder of LadyBee Botanicals, as she shares how honeybees and plant medicine have come together to create a dynamic synergy of healing products produced within the beehive. She'll touch on the fascinating history, mythology, and symbolism of the hive. Tamara will explore the honeybee as an extraordinary benefit to our environment... and examine the medicinal uses of the six bee medicines: pollen, royal jelly, venom, honey, propolis, and beeswax.
During this compelling session, you'll discover:
- An overview of the honeybee's role in the relationship beween humans & nature
- A basic introduction to apitherapy
- Medicinal recipes to make at home using bee products
Tamara Wolfson
Tamara Wolfson, MS, LAc, is an osteo-acupuncturist, apitherapist, herbalist and educator with over 20 years of clinical experience practicing natural medicine. Tamara is the founder of LadyBee Botanicals, a comprehensive line of over a hundred original, natural, and organic herbal formulations utilizing Western, Ayurvedic and Chinese herbs, apitherapy tonics, and bee medicine based body care products. Tamara is also the founder of HealtHIVE, an online resource of NCCAOM, California CEU, and Florida CEU certified natural medicine courses which are also available for the general public.
Tamara graduated Magna Cum Laude from Southern Connecticut State University and obtained her first acupuncture degree from Tristate Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine in New York. She obtained her MS in Chinese Medicine from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco. Her training has included extensive experiences in community medicine in clinics such as the Sidney Hillman Healthcare Clinic in New York City, Fourteenth Street Methadone Clinic, Oakland and the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco. She has trained intensively with diversity of master Oriental Medical doctors including Mark Seem, Kiiko Matsumoto, Bob Flaws, Honora Lee Wolfe, Ted Kaptchuk, Chip Chase and Jeffery Yuen.
Tamara lives in Marin County, California, is the mother of four children, maintains a busy clinical practice and herbal apothecary, and is the steward of well over 1 million honeybees.
