a cure for asthma and convulsions??

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hello everyone, last night i was chatting and the topic was about asthma and convulsions. i was telling him about how some village filipinos cure asthma. by catching flying lizards (tambubukag in our dialect). it is then toasted in open fire and its ashes are often added to drinks and the food that is eaten by the asthmatic person. he also mentioned that in their place in india, kids with convulsions get some sort of treatment wherein they use lizard tail (you know that when lizard tail get cut off from its body, it still shakes and moves like it has its own brain in it?) it is then picked up and placed in a tabeez (a small box or container of silver or brass) and then sealed on its mouth realy tight and then it is worn in the arm or the neck with a thread and then, no more convulsions. many would say that there is no connecting link between the said "treatments" and the patient diseases. but they are cured (well, most of them). do you think it is just psychological? but i think again.. we do not tell these patients until after they are cured. what can you say about that? ann