In a medical practice, it works sometimes not enough to convince the patient.Appropriateness factor should also be considered, because if too disgusted or creepy patient might even pass out first.
Quoted from Menshealth, Wednesday (8/12/2010), here are the 3 types of alternative medicine that proven effective but quite scary.
1. Swallowing worm eggs
Ulcerative colitis or inflammation of the intestine is one of the digestive system disorder that usually have an operation. But recently a man overcome by swallowing roundworm eggs juice which he obtained from Thailand.
This man later became the subject of research at New York University. The results showed, intestinal disorders experienced by the man improved within 3 years from drinking worm eggs regularly.
The researchers suspect, the entry of worm eggs triggers the human immune system to produce more mucus so that worm eggs did not hatch. Discharge turned out to be good for inflammation of the intestine, because the coating surface of intestinal injury.
2. Inject its own blood
One of the frequent injuries experienced by athletes are hamstring tendinopathy or sobeknya thigh muscle tissue that triggers pain extraordinary and difficult to cure. So far, the injury was always treated with steroid injections and surgery which requires a long time for recovery.
Now researchers in London have found an alternative for athletes who suffered a hamstring injury does not require surgery. You do this by injecting their own blood in the thighs, and then stabbed him repeatedly to trigger internal bleeding under the skin tissue.
In a trial in 42 patients with tendinopathy, this alternative way of providing more rapid progress than steroid injection. Injecting his own blood can also be done for other muscle injury, such as arms and calves.
3. Sprinkle maggots in wound surface
Alternative medicine by using leeches or Pacet actually been known since ancient times. But now there are more extreme, ie, treating wounds in the leg by using maggots.
A study published in the British Medical Journal proves more effective against infection maggots in the wound.
Maggots are fly larvae that are much cheaper than modern medicine, because it is said in English 1 container containing 500-1000 maggots can be redeemed at a price of only Rp 632 thousands.




