Chronic pain is a major problem of public health, and patients seek manifold forms of help to find relief. Here we present and discuss the case of a middle-aged woman suffering from mental disorders who treated her headache with the self-application of bee stings on her back.
Keywords: bee; chronic pain; complementary and alternative medicine; headache; mental health; pain management; placebo; psychiatry; psycho- social behaviour; psychosomatic medicine.