Thailand gripped by case of "holy hermit" who advises disciples to eat body secretions to cure illness

[webfact]

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Thai media was baying for more to satisfy a voracious public as a social activist trying to expose quackery mounted a high profile raid in Thailand's north east at a cult center. 

 

Mor Pla (Dr Fish) or Jiraphan Petchkhao responded to public complaints by leading officials to a retreat in Khonsan district of Chaiyaphum.

 

There they found a hermit with a long beard who is proclaiming himself as the cult leader cutting across religious denominations. 

 

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The weird cult thinks that by eating urine, feces, phlegm and skin scrapings they can cure all sorts of diseases, reported Thai Rath. 

 

So far Pol Col Wattanachai Janthathum, chief of the Khonsan police, said that charges of trespass on public property have been made as investigations continue with the help of provincial governor Kraisorn Kongchalad. 

 

Eleven corpses have been found at the property with cultists saying they were "waiting to go to heaven". 

 

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[RandiRona]

<deleted>!! ...This is some different level <deleted>....

[ezzra]

Seeing is believing, let us see him eat his on poop and drink his own urine to make me a believer...

[Denim]

He's taking the p**s.

 

But hey, don't let me poot you off.

 

[Walker88]

Personally, I'm going to wait a while until this stuff undergoes Frances Bacon's Scientific Method, gets published in a leading journal, and undergoes extensive peer review.

 

That's just me. Maybe I'm a little too science heavy with not enough 'faith'. I mean, I'm so skeptical I don't even believe in astrology or virgin births, much less feces feasting.

[rbkk]

"11 dead bodies....." trumps "Holy hermit" as a headline in most parts of the world. This was news in the Thai press yesterday.

[worgeordie]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The weird cult thinks that by eating urine, feces, phlegm and skin scrapings they can cure all sorts of diseases,

Could be why they have 11 corpses at the property , eating <deleted> ,won't cure you.

regards worgeordie 

[ThailandRyan]

3 hours ago, ezzra said:

Seeing is believing, let us see him eat his on poop and drink his own urine to make me a believer...

He should have gone to Johnny Depp's house after Amber took a shiite in the bed, a feast for all...

[Ralf001]

Wonder if the consumption of nose oysters provides any health benefits.

[vandeventer]

5 hours ago, RandiRona said:

<deleted>!! ...This is some different level <deleted>....

In my 20 years living here I have never seen this before. I know some of the Thai food taste like s--- but this goes too far. Maybe they just ran out of food and they had to eat something shame there is no food stamps here.

Edited May 9, 2022 by vandeventer

[klauskunkel]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The weird cult thinks that by eating urine, feces, phlegm and skin scrapings they can cure all sorts of diseases,

I think they should be sued for discrimination by the booger eaters.

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

The weird cult thinks that by eating urine, feces, phlegm and skin scrapings they can cure all sorts of diseases,

Why not, an educated government placed Naval officer believes drinking seamen will produce better recruits.

Who to believe?

[Burma Bill]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

a hermit with a long beard who is proclaiming himself as the cult leader

There is a video of him and his followers on You Tube.  I will not post it so as not to break any copyright issues, however what I witnessed was quite disgusting, a woman drinking urine from a bowl using a spoon and also rubbing urine over her face!! If you go to the link to OP (Thai Rath) there is a video you can watch.

[sawadee1947]

7 hours ago, ezzra said:

Seeing is believing, let us see him eat his on poop and drink his own urine to make me a believer...

The urine is supposed to keep you healthy. Although.....

However, it's more than brainless to eat your own poop.

But...If he likes it.....

He doesn't harm anybody.????

[sawadee1947]

1 hour ago, klauskunkel said:

booger eaters.

You mean burger eaters?????

[Gottfrid]

Madness just went one step up the ladder

[Mark Nothing]

Sounds like a good old fashioned dare to me.  I know where my wager would be laid.

[webfact]

Cult followers advised to get check-ups after consuming their own bodily discharges

 

 

Followers of a cult leader in a village in Khon San district of Thailand’s north-eastern province of Chaiyaphum have been advised to get medical check-ups at their nearest hospital after they consumed their own urine, feces, scurf, pus, and phlegm on the recommendation of the cult’s leader, to “cure their illnesses”. 

 

The leader, a 75-year-old man, has been arrested in Chaiyaphum on initial charges of encroachment on public land and violation of the Communicable Diseases Act.

 

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Director-General of the Department of Disease Control Department (DDC) Dr. Opart Karnkawinpong said today (Monday) that human urine, excrement and other discharges are unhygienic and must not be consumed, especially feces, which is infested with harmful bacteria which can lead to diarrhea, cholera and other serious diseases.

 

Police raided the cult’s “monastery” in Chaiyaphum’s Dong Klang sub-district on Saturday, following a tip-off that there are 11 cadavers being kept in coffins in the compound and that the cult leader had provided bizarre treatments to his follower. Dozens of jars containing the concoctions were also found.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/cult-followers-advised-to-get-check-ups-after-consuming-their-own-bodily-discharges/

 

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[Gottfrid]

They were recommended to do a check-up at their closest hospital. May I add, that they might want to go a little bit further, and do a complete mental health check-up as well?

[smedly]

OMG

[Stargeezr]

Well, I guess some people will follow any body.  Good to see this old guy getting hauled off and hope the coffins will be buried in some real grave yard or burned somewhere.

  What a world we all live in.  I guess this old guy lived some where up country...

[wombat]

14 hours ago, Burma Bill said:

a woman drinking urine from a bowl 

Mahatma Gandhi drank his own urine every day.

No one was perturbed by that.

[Scott]

Inflammatory post removed.

 

[SAFETY FIRST]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

they consumed their own urine, feces, scurf, pus, and phlegm

Please, I'm eating my breakfast. ????

 

[SAFETY FIRST]

21 hours ago, webfact said:

weird cult thinks that by eating urine, feces, phlegm and skin scrapings they can cure all sorts of diseases

Omg, I thought that the Chinese had strange remedies for healing. 

 

 

[Denim]

More common than you would think. Even cook books available :

 

 

And if eating is a step to far you can travel to Udon and try something less drastic first :

 

 

Edited May 10, 2022 by Denim

[tandor]

24 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Please, I'm eating my breakfast. ????

 

..it might be someone elses breakfast!

[Tich]

Loonies !

[Paradise Pete]

1 hour ago, wombat said:

Mahatma Gandhi drank his own urine every day.

No one was perturbed by that.

I am now.

[brianthainess]

Just watched the Vid, allowing such a large mob of press in was awful' It could be a crime scene but TIT. Just wondering did he spend time in the RTN.