Recently, a clip recorded the scene of marinated baby lizards placed next to an oil pan to fry, making many people scared.
Accordingly, the clip is about 1 minute long with the scene of pre-prepared baby lizards placed in a bowl to fry. The woman picked up each lizard with chopsticks and then poured the entire bowl of lizards into an oil pan on the stove. In the comments section below, this person repeatedly mentioned feeding lizards to children to cure asthma.
The clip of fried lizards scared many people. Screenshots
In addition, this person’s Tiktok channel also posted many videos about cooking lizards, even filming scenes of feeding children lizards to treat asthma, with the status line: “Feeding children to treat asthma, everyone.” “.
Although the lizard frying clip mentioned above was only posted for a short time, it already has nearly 5 million views, more than 100,000 likes and 17,000 comments. Many people were horrified by the fact that the account owner propagated how to cure children’s asthma with fried lizards and were concerned by the fact that many other people believed it and intended to treat children this way.
The account owner feeds his child lizards to treat asthma. Screenshots
Someone commented: “When I see a lizard, I run in 8 directions. Now watching this clip, I’ll probably faint for 100 days without waking up.” Another person said: “There is no way eating lizards can cure asthma, we need to boycott these false propaganda clips”, or: “I think this is a trick to attract views, and even teach people This is the way to trend, letting these clips appear in the online community is very dangerous, ignorant people will follow.”
Exchange with PV Dan VietDoctor Le Van Thieu, Department of General Infections, Central Tropical Diseases Hospital, said that there are no books or scientific studies proving that eating lizards can cure asthma.
“The lizard is an animal that has not been included in the pharmacopoeia, so it is only rumored folk information. Up to now, mainstream oriental medicine has not been used as medicine. Maybe because it resembles a gecko (the type already in pharmacopoeia, has real asthma treatment effects in addition to its kidney yang tonic effect), so it is possible that someone ‘invented’ this method without scientific basis,” said Dr. Thieu.
According to Dr. Thieu, asthma is caused by chronic inflammation of the airways, becoming more sensitive when there are irritants, causing spasms called asthma attacks, manifested by signs of coughing, wheezing, and difficulty breathing. again and again. Thus, the main asthma medications include drugs that help reduce chronic inflammation and bronchodilators when there are spasms.
“From a Western medicine perspective, I confirm that using lizards to treat asthma is unscientific and unconvincing. Even if it is a medicine, it needs to be examined and prescribed by a doctor. traditional medicine.
My point of view is that people should not arbitrarily “test drugs”, whether they are effective or not, nor should they take their own body or the lives of their loved ones to test drugs without following any formal and systematic process. The use of medication requires a doctor’s prescription as well as the regimen, dosage, and method of use. If used too little, it will not be effective, if used too much, it will be toxic…”, Dr. Thieu recommended.