Alcohol laced with toad extract kills two in Chonburi - stay well clear warns health expert

[webfact]

One for the frog and toad? Don't go there advises Chonburi health expert

 

Thai caption: One more dead

 

A Chonburi health expert has advised people not to drink medicinal spirits laced with extract of toad. 

 

Two people have died in the Samet area after drinking Ya Dong (medicinal spirits) with the unusual additive. Many have fallen sick. 

 

Winai, 47, was the latest suspected victim. He was found lying down dead near some old offices. 

 

His younger sister Aranya, 43, said she didn't see much of him but it was very sad. He had been drinking with some relatives. 

 

The concoction was made by a man called "Nat". 

 

Worasak who works at a clinic in the area warned about drinking such things. 

 

Frog and Toad is Cockney rhyming slang for "road" - used in the expression "one for the road" or have another drink, notes Thaivisa. 

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

 

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[samsensam]

 

Alcohol laced with toad extract kills two in Chonburi - stay well clear warns health expert

 

you dont have to be a health expert to offer that advice.

[keith101]

9 minutes ago, webfact said:

The concoction was made by a man called "Nat". 

This man needs to be found , arrested and charged with manslaughter .

[Tayaout]

I wonder if it is related to this: https://trancentral.tv/2016/09/psychoactive-toads/

[pookondee]

The stuff in those bottles, herbs and bark and various junk..

Is added purely to make the vile liquid (half) drinkable.

nothing to do with health.

 

Why so many Thais believe this

hocus-pocus is beyond me. 

 

A lot of them end up destroying their liver, thinking they are drinking health tonics.

 

need their heads read

 

 

 

[nikmar]

29 minutes ago, webfact said:

Frog and Toad is Cockney rhyming slang for "road" - used in the expression "one for the road" or have another drink, notes Thaivisa. 

Is someone trying to show off their amazing English knowledge?

[Bluespunk]

32 minutes ago, webfact said:

Alcohol laced with toad extract kills two in Chonburi - stay well clear warns health expert

Thanks, I will...not that I needed much encouragement to do so.

 

Actually I am surprised anyone would...

[legend49]

Do the toads own many watches?

[bluesofa]

1 hour ago, pookondee said:

The stuff in those bottles, herbs and bark and various junk..

Is added purely to make the vile liquid (half) drinkable.

nothing to do with health.

 

Why so many Thais believe this

hocus-pocus is beyond me. 

 

A lot of them end up destroying their liver, thinking they are drinking health tonics.

 

need their heads read

I'd think your head (and face) would be well 'red' after drinking that stuff.

[sammieuk1]

Cause of death croaked it ????Rip

[RichardColeman]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The concoction was made by a man called "Nat". 

To be drunk only by a man called 'Nit' !

[Justgrazing]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

 

A Chonburi health expert has advised people not to drink medicinal spirits laced with extract of toad

DIY peasant take on Macbeth .? 

[Nyezhov]

wonder where you can buy it?

[PatOngo]

13 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

wonder where you can buy it?

Stick with the herbal relaxation medicine, far less lethal!

[Nyezhov]

1 minute ago, PatOngo said:

Stick with the herbal relaxation medicine, far less lethal!

I want to live dangerously. I had a whack of ya dong with the local motosais last week, it burned LOL

[PatOngo]

1 minute ago, Nyezhov said:

I want to live dangerously.

Travel by mini van!

[digger70]

Isn't it funny that so many people believe in the <deleted> other people say , they even believe if one says that pigs and elephants can fly if they give them some of the medicine. ????

[kickstart]

Some Yar Dongs are ok ,two popular one are Suar Sipet Tuar, 11 Tigers ( but the joke is with the bad economy it is now  10 dogs and one Tiger ),or Gow Reian ,9 coins .

On Thai TV they said they mixed paint thinners as well ,it would have been the paint thinners that would have done the damage,

The wife says you can use Toad, Khang Khock in Thai to make a Yar Dong  ,but a gland at the back of the ear  is poisonous and must be removed .

[ylmiri]

6 hours ago, keith101 said:

This man needs to be found , arrested and charged with manslaughter .

Really? Charged with manslaughter? Often we read in news murderer found after about 10 years- perhaps the criminal couldn't afford to pay anymore so he was "found" and arrested.

If you live in Thailand long enough you will see the intricate workings of the laws, the justice system, the police work and of course the important "forensic work" which often put forward rather unusual reasons for the death of victims.

"Amazing Thailand"- as the billboard advertised tells you in 2 words what so many expats on this forum keep complaining.

[ylmiri]

2 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Travel by mini van!

You forgot something.  Hazard=Risks x frequency.  You need to travel in mini van over long distance and frequently to qualify. 

[Nyezhov]

42 minutes ago, kickstart said:

The wife says you can use Toad, Khang Khock in Thai to make a Yar Dong  ,but a gland at the back of the ear  is poisonous and must be removed .

I think they have to be gutted, bled and skinned too, they are bufo toxin toads. Ddidnt some dudes die a few years ago from eating one?

[ratcatcher]

3 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

DIY peasant take on Macbeth .? 

Old Nat went to a lot of toil and trouble to make his concoction.

[Just Weird]

 

7 hours ago, nikmar said:

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Frog and Toad is Cockney rhyming slang for "road" - used in the expression "one for the road" or have another drink, notes Thaivisa. 

Is someone trying to show off their amazing English knowledge?

...and failing.

[DannyCarlton]

3 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

wonder where you can buy it?

My brother in law makes it. Takes a jug of it out when we go fishing for the day. Up in Issan, everyone has their own secret recipe. His tastes great and blows the top of your head off. Not for the squeamish.

[Just Weird]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Frog and Toad is Cockney rhyming slang for "road" - used in the expression "one for the road" or have another drink, notes Thaivisa. 

Thaivisa should note that first part is correct, it is rhyming slang but, in the second part, apart from "frog and toad" meaning "road", there is no connection whatsoever between the cockney term "frog and toad" and the expression used for having another drink, "one for the road"!

[Isaanbiker]

7 hours ago, nikmar said:

Is someone trying to show off their amazing English knowledge?

Or " Cockney" knowledge?

[Isaanbiker]

17 minutes ago, DannyCarlton said:

My brother in law makes it. Takes a jug of it out when we go fishing for the day. Up in Issan, everyone has their own secret recipe. His tastes great and blows the top of your head off. Not for the squeamish.

Some truly believe it's an aphrodisiac medicine that helps people in hard times to get harder. ????

[White Christmas13]

36 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

 

...and failing.

yes and some of the posters here as well, maybe it should pointed out to them

this is an English only speaking forum.

[DaRoadrunner]

Death by alcohol laced with Toad extract?.... So they croaked?

[emptypockets]

1 hour ago, Nyezhov said:

I think they have to be gutted, bled and skinned too, they are bufo toxin toads. Ddidnt some dudes die a few years ago from eating one?

The South American introduced (bufo family) toad is decimating wildlife in Australia. Killing everything that eats it. Including crocodiles. One of the biggest environmental disaster to occur. All based on the  best scientists knowledge and recommendations , of course.

 

I made a suggestion that a toad may be responsible for some apparent dog poisoning attempts in Thailand in a different thread but it got removed as off topic. Go figure.

Wouldn't be surprised if this post is removed too. Sometimes the facts are inconvenient.