Frau Voigtländer's story

Most of you know that one of the main dreams of a beekeeper is to visit at least once in his life an Apimondia Congress. This was the case also for Mrs. Voigtländer, a wonderful senior lady that has in Germany a small but harmonius apiary. She joined our group organized by Mr. Arno Bruder, our DAB Vice-President, to visit this year in August the Apimondia Congress organized in Dublin, Ireland. The flight Munich-Dublin was OK, landing OK, but during the boarding to the bus that was waiting for us, an awful accident occured... Mrs. Voigtländer made a wrong step and felt down hurting badly most of the left side of her face (photo 1). A sigh was heard coming from all people surounding her (nobody expected such an accident in the first day of the Irish tour!), but immediately afterwards we „jumped“ to help her. Most of us have thought that she has broken her left cheek bone and that for sure we will need to go to the nearest hospital... Fortunately it was only a superficial wound (no bone fracture), but still was badly bleeding. Our luck was that one of the group members, Mrs. Barbara Berger-Marterer from Zell im Wiesental (Germany), a lady beekeeper, Heilpraktiker (Naturopathic Doctor) and excellent Apitherapist have had with her a vial of propolis tincture. We applied immediately, directly on the bleeding superficial wound about 50-60 drops of propolis tincture, one after another, in the coming 15-20 minutes. The bleeding stopped in less than 10 minutes and what was amazing, Mrs. Voigtländer has had no pains at all, no other discomforts, excepting the „esthetical“ one. We asked her if she would like to be transported to the nearest hospital, but she bravely refused that and... continued the trip with the rest of us (photo 2 and 3)!!!

Starting with the second day after her accident she began to use her own home-made propolis-olive oil cream. She participated to absolutely all activities during the trip to Ireland, including the most important moment, the visit to the Apimondia Expo. Due to her strong will and optimism, but most of all due to the extraordinary healing powers of propolis, her wound was healed completely with almost no scar left in less than 2 weeks (photo 4)...

Conclusion: among the most important things to take with us when we travel is also a bottle of propolis tincture!!!