Baking Soda for Bee Stings

My husband has been taking to killing bees with his bare hands???!!! He has been stung 4 times lately. The last two times his hand swelled quite badly and he had a horrible bruise. I got some baking soda and made a paste with water. He put it on. Within a few minutes the baking soda started drawing the blood out! We kept putting it on and the bruising was completely gone in an hour. The swelling gradually went down. AMAZING! Now if he could only learn not to try to kill them with his bare hands!!