@article{article_1573452, title={An Overview of The Use of Apitherapy (Bee Products) in The Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease}, journal={Muş Alparslan Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Dergisi}, volume={5}, pages={33–42}, year={2025}, DOI={10.71255/maunsbd.1573452}, author={Kılıç Barmanpek, Nermin and Demirel, Cihat and Kaya, Zelal and Şahin, Mesut}, keywords={Apitherapy, bee products, nursing, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), health care}, abstract={This review article’s objectives are to examine the application of bee products in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and to show how useful they are for raising the standard of healthcare, particularly for nursing care services. COPD, a widespread and chronic condition, is a significant public health issue. A promising approach for COPD patients has emerged in the form of the growing interest in traditional, complementary, and integrative medicine as well as the extensive application of these treatments in healthcare services in recent years. Apart from being used into pharmaceutical therapies, apitherapy products alleviate certain symptoms of COPD, such cough, thereby enhancing patients’ understanding, drive, and proactive involvement in the illness progression. It may be advised that Traditional, Complementary, and Integrated Medicine practices and Apitherapy products be included in in-service and patient training materials, that they be applied by qualified and certified specialists, that they be used consciously and cautiously, and that more thorough research be done on these practices to increase the level of evidence in order to provide a professional, holistic, and optimal level of care in health, and especially in nursing care services.}, number={1}, publisher={Mus Alparslan University}, organization={This article received no financial support.}