Zhang had been led to believe that swallowing live frogs would provide relief. She gathered family members to catch the animals. Without saying what that was for. The first afternoon, Zhang took three, and another five the next day.
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The only thing that ultimately resulted in was enormous stomach pain. When at one point she could no longer even walk, Zhang went to the hospital where the elderly woman confessed the horror story.
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The Chinese turned out to have contracted a horrible parasite from the live frogs in her stomach. After extensive medical treatment she was able to return home.
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The report in Chinese media yielded stories of many more people who had put the folk wisdom into practice.
Like a Chinese woman who contracted a huge tapeworm 7 years ago because she hoped that frogs could help her get rid of her rheumatism.
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Hospitals report that it’s not just frogs that are seen as beneficial. According to popular belief, eating raw snake or fish bile will also make all problems melt away like snow in the sun. There is also a trend to swallow live tadpoles to treat skin conditions such as psoriasis and eczema.
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Zhang’s message and all the other old-fashioned stories are used by doctors to warn everyone that living frogs and tadpoles only make you sicker.