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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: TomSea on December 16, 2018, 06:26:16 pm

Title: Worth the sting: Cuba's scorpion pain remedy
Post by: TomSea on December 16, 2018, 06:26:16 pm
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Worth the sting: Cuba's scorpion pain remedy
Rodrigo Gutierrez

HAVANA (Reuters) - Once a month for the last decade, Pepe Casanas, a 78-year-old Cuban farmer, has hunted down a scorpion to sting himself with, vowing that the venom wards off his rheumatism pains.

His natural remedy is no longer seen as very unusual here.

Researchers in Cuba have found that the venom of the blue scorpion, whose scientific name is Rhopalurus junceus, endemic to the Caribbean island, appears to have anti-inflammatory and pain relief properties, and may be able to delay tumor growth in some cancer patients.

Continued at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-cancer-cuba-scorpion-idUSKBN1OD2GH (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-cancer-cuba-scorpion-idUSKBN1OD2GH)
Title: Re: Worth the sting: Cuba's scorpion pain remedy
Post by: thackney on December 17, 2018, 12:19:25 am
Socialized medicine at its best.
Title: Re: Worth the sting: Cuba's scorpion pain remedy
Post by: Oceander on December 17, 2018, 12:52:43 am
Quote from: thackney on December 17, 2018, 12:19:25 am
Socialized medicine at its best.

Natural remedies aren’t limited to socialized medicine.
Title: Re: Worth the sting: Cuba's scorpion pain remedy
Post by: thackney on December 17, 2018, 01:00:24 am
Quote from: Oceander on December 17, 2018, 12:52:43 am
Natural remedies aren’t limited to socialized medicine.

Nope, but socialized medicine taken to the extreme like Cuba and Venezuela eliminates most of what our normal treatment options for the common man.
Title: Re: Worth the sting: Cuba's scorpion pain remedy
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on December 17, 2018, 04:52:44 am

Researchers in Cuba have found that the venom of the blue scorpion, whose scientific name is Rhopalurus junceus, endemic to the Caribbean island, appears to have anti-inflammatory and pain relief properties, and may be able to delay tumor growth in some cancer patients.

Hmm, tumeric or a scorpion sting?