Unaddressed pain can drive us to the most obscure practices. A recent case of an 82-year-old woman proved that point: inspired by local folktales, she consumed eight live frogs, hoping to relieve her ...

In a startling and highly unusual case, an 82-year-old woman in eastern China sought to relieve chronic lower back pain by swallowing live frogs, following a local folk remedy. Known only by her ...