I stumbled on this bizarre stuff, and felt like sharing.

A recovering cancer patient swallowed a cup of live maggots after being told by a friend that this could fully eliminate the cancer from her body, local Chinese media reported on March 21.

Doctors in Shaanxi Province, China, suspected that the woman’s cancer had relapsed. But after some tests, they found that her symptoms were not caused by cancer, but rather by the insects crawling around inside her stomach.

The woman, whose surname is Li, has received medical treatment to remove the maggots, and is now in stable condition.

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“After we did the evaluation, we found that her situation was completely stable,” Wang said in the video. “There weren’t any traces of the tumor relapsing or metastasizing.”

Since no cancer was found, the doctors decided to instead exam Li’s stomach directly, in search of the source of her pain. The hospital performed an endoscopy, using a camera to view her digestive track. “We discovered that there were parasites in her intestines, and what’s more is that they were still moving,” Wang said in the video.

“Finally, after we asked the patient in detail [about what she’d done], the patient told us that one month ago, she swallowed a bottle of maggots,” Wang said.
Li told the doctors that it was a folk remedy that she heard of from a friend. According to Li, the friend claimed that her cancerous tumor would be cured after ingesting a bottle of maggots.
Once the doctors found the cause of Li’s ailment, they administered medicine to kill the maggots. By the second day, Li’s pain was completely gone, according to First News.
Li has already left the hospital, and is now following doctor's order.