Why is the remedy for treating scalds caused by mouse oil and causing children to enter the ICU to be regarded as a panacea?
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Toad soup is used to treat colds, swallow tadpoles to keep fit, use ink on the skin to eliminate herpes... These mysterious and vigorous folk remedies may still be used today.
Recently, the traditional remedy for rats to boil oil to treat burns has "reappeared the rivers and lakes".
According to media reports, the Henan Children’s Hospital recently admitted a boy to the intensive care unit because the parents heard a folk remedy and smeared the child’s skin with mouse oil to treat the scald, which eventually led to infection.
Such absurd remedies that go against science and common sense of hygiene are still being used on children, which makes people feel lingering.
It can be seen how deep-rooted the "partial belief" in folk prescriptions is.
Rats are carriers of many viruses and bacteria that are deadly and dangerous to the human body. Applying mouse oil to the injured skin of a child can easily cause infection.
This is the basic common sense of modern medicine. Why are there parents who abandon many formal and effective scald medicines instead of using traditional remedies?
Is this folk remedy really so "effective"?
Folk remedies are regarded as effective remedies, and in many cases they fit the public's mentality of "treating serious illnesses with remedies".
The folk remedies tend to make people unclear and unpredictable, but sometimes they are effective in curing diseases.
If a so-called folk remedy works under certain circumstances of chance and coincidence, people do not pay attention to its medical and pharmacology, and do not care about whether to treat a special disease only in a specific environment, and then treat the folk remedy as a panacea.
Even if this folk remedy is only effective at a probability of one percent or one in a thousand, people will believe in it, and the folk remedy will have a "mass base" that has been passed down.
Of course, we can't kill all the folk remedies just like this, thinking that they are the dregs of pseudoscience.
For prescriptions that conform to medical and pharmacological principles, scientific methods can be used for research and citation, instead of "drugging boldly" without common sense, violating health and medical common sense, and disregarding the safety of relatives.
Because of the use of home remedies, the child was sent to the intensive care unit, and the lesson was not unfathomable.
There are countless cases in which folk remedies have harmed people.
It is hoped that these cases will enable people who are obsessed to wake up as soon as possible, and believe that modern science and medicine, taking medicine and treating diseases in a scientific and formal way is the most reliable way to cure diseases.
Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News Special Commentator He Sheng