5 Poisonous Animals That Can Cure Disease
- Live Science
VIVA – In this world, there are so many scary animals that produce poison. The main function of the poison is as self-defense or to help the animal concerned to get its prey.
But for humans, it turns out that this animal poison can also be used as a medicine for people’s health problems that attack humans.
1. Frog
The fire-belly frog is a type of frog that is so named because its yellow or black body is striking like flames. Because of its unique color, these frogs have recently begun to be kept as exotic pets.
The fire-belly frogs themselves have beautiful colors, not so that humans are attracted to them, but to warn their enemies that this frog is originally a poisonous animal.
The frog's venom is normally harmless to humans as long as it doesn't enter the bloodstream in large amounts. However, if the frog's poison reaches the eye, this person will feel pain in his eyes.
However, fire frog poison not only has a negative impact. This poison is known to contain a component called bombesin. These components are used by humans to heal tumors.
2. Bedbug
Bed bugs are insects that are very small, but very hated by humans. Because, these animals have a habit of perching on human skin and sucking the blood of the victim.
This bed bug has a unique method of sucking human blood. When just landed on human skin, bed bugs will injure the skin by using their bites. After that, the tick will inject its saliva into the wound.
The ability possessed by bedbug saliva then attracted the attention of experts. They conducted research on bed bug saliva in the hope of using the insect's saliva to treat pneumonia. The protein contained in the saliva of this scary animal is also believed to help cancer therapy.
