Enter an eel through his anus, this man in Tiongkok almost died

News24xx.com - Doctors in China had managed to eject an eel from the stomach of a middle-aged man. The eel was deliberately inserted into his anus as it was considered a traditional medicine for constipation.

When the man arrived at the hospital, his stomach swelled like a balloon and it was very painful. The unnamed man claimed to have enter an eel through his anus to heal the constipation he suffered.

But the eel actually wreaked havoc in his intestines. When surgery, doctors found that the animal had penetrated the intestines and damaged the abdominal cavity.

"The eel almost killed him," the doctor said as quoted from South China Morning.

Eels have jaws and sharp teeth and slim bodies. It used to help them dig in the mud and sand. The eel that used is have a head as big as a ping pong ball.

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