A comedian who thinks he is a native Doctor

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Where I live, there are a lot of people who still prefer traditional medicine to allopathic medicine, not that it's a bad thing, in fact I myself take root and herbs like boiler mango leaves, lemon roots and crushed been seeds. The thing I find disheartening about how they market their products is the unfounded claims they make with regards to the what the drug can do what what it can not.

I have always felt this way about this whole thing but a scene I encountered today when going into town was just so hilarious. There was a man with a truck full of grounded substance which I suppose were herbs. The truck has a megaphone attached to it's proximal end which echoes the hilarious statements the man makes. People were gathered where the man was to witness another "awe-inspiring" event. This event is when this man comes out with various map like calendars with scary photos of scary ailments that would scare the shit out of you( I intentionally keep repeating the word "scary" cause they really are. I mean take a look at these:

They sure are scary aren't they?

Now what this man does is that he points to a completely unrelated picture on that cart and then makes a claim that the picture is that of a man he cured of the disease when he visited so so and so country. The local people would erupt in cheers, some sand praises while some jeered at him for saying cap. From there you know that the crowd was a mixed crowd. It was indeed a sight to behold: more of comedy than actual marketing. It was like a circus haha. You'd think he wanted to make people laugh rather than get them to buy a medicine for an ailment. Well it is likely he intended to do both, but he is more of a comedian than a traditional medicine practitioner.

Here are some of his lines that got people lolling:

"You see that boy with a stomach the size of the cooking pot used in weddings, it was actually stones that resulted in that. The small stones grew to form a medium sized rock in his stomach"

That sounded ridiculous didn't it? Well my man was damn serious about it, or perhaps he just acted the part

He would then proceed to pick up a greenish herb wrapped up in tissue paper and say that's what melted those really tough stones in the child's belly.

He then told another story of how he cured another boy who was shown to have a head twice the size of his body, possibly something to do with a congenital abnormality, probably Dandy-Walker Syndrome but the dude said it's due to the fluid the child drank when it was in the womb and instead of going down, it went up into its head. While it is true that it is caused by the accumulation of fluid, it definitely isn't the fluid that was "drank" by the baby.

The person who seems to live in a tree as shown in the chart was a young boy who fell inside a tree when he was just three years old of age. He then became part of the tree as time went by, so practically the boy is a mfing tree😂😂. The man however didn't make any claims to removing the boy from the tree so I imagined he told the story to inspire awe in his audience, a psychological trick he thought would make the crowd want to buy herbs from him.

As a medical student, the hilariousness and the lack of inaccuracies annoyed me a little bit, but most of the people seems to be at the place for a good laugh, so who am I not to join in🤣🤣?