New bee therapy house uses beehives for wide variety of treatments

ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – Pardee Bee’s is using the sounds and smells of bees to help patients with several types of ailments.

When most people hear bees, they generally want to get away from that sound and the potential danger, but a new form of therapy is using that sound for treatment. Pardee Bees is a bee therapy method in which people sit in a room with an active beehive. Patients are separated from the hive by a protective layer of mesh.

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Therapists say the pheromones and vibrations from the buzzing have beneficial and therapeutic effects that help with a wide variety of ailments. Jen Pardee, along with her husband Travis Pardee, is pioneering this new type of therapy in the Big Country, and Jen explains some of the ailments this therapy helps.

“A beehive is considered nature’s pharmacy. There have been benefits for people who have respiratory illness, asthma, and people with stress and anxiety. Even people with PTSD. They actually use this a lot with veterans who have experienced PTSD. Ultimately, it’s a kind of healing house, if you will. But even people with chronic pain and fibromyalgia, those kinds of things, there’s been some benefits for that,” Jen said.

Jen and Travis opened this bee house with the help of Rest Wellness Center & Day Spa, located on Ben Richey Drive. Since its opening, it has seen several successes and repeat patients receiving this treatment. One individual visiting the spa, Macy Field, was asked about her thoughts on trying the unorthodox procedure.

“I want to know what the buzz is going to be about. No pun intended! If it is backed by science or they believe in it, surely it works, and that’s good to have. I would be willing to try,” Field responded.

Pardee says that the safety of those using the bee therapy house is paramount and that the chances of accidentally getting stung are minimal. However, if a patient were to be stung and happens to be allergic, she says the staff at Rest Day Spa are equipped with epinephrine pens for that exact situation.