Amazon Honeybees Make Medicine

In the Peruvian Amazon rainforest, indigenous tribes like the Kukama-Kukamiria, raise honeybees. Unlike European honeybees, their bees are stingless. The honey is also different, depending on the bees’ diet. Amazon plants create different chemicals in honey, that make it useful as medicine to treat infections, diabetes, pneumonia, arthritis, and even cancer. That’s a sweet treatment!