Healing Seekers - Army Surgery Ant and Stitches

Amy, using Cary's finger for demonstration, shows how surgery ants were used by the natives to temporarily stitch wounds.
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• Army Surgery Ant
• rainforest medicine
• amazon indian culture
• rainforest indigenous culture
• stitches

[HomeMadeZin]

That's amazing, I had seen this method on a movie once before, and wondered if it was possible. :D

[healingseekers]

Its wild, isn't it ? This was one of my favorite parts of the expedition. ;-)

[deathgaze05]

Omg facts :D

[BlackRedWhite13]

That is so cool! Next time I'm stranded somewhere with a gaping wound on my hand, I'll use this!

[Zantetsudex]

Too cheap for a thread and needle?

[csmybuttt]

@blutfier Did you even watch the fucking video, moron? The ants are closing a wound, not making them.

Honestly, even taking the half a second to read the title would've prevented from saying such contradictory bullshit.

[utubegurl88]

@vanderToki lol Firgured.

[blutfier]

@healingseekers Getting bitten by wild ants? When is that ever anyones favourite part?

"Hey hon, how was the trip?"

"Oh, I had my bloody hand ripped apart by ants"

"Oh, thats nice"

What the fuck?

[ELREndLondonRule]

I'd rather just use a needle and thread rather than pick up another lifeform, force it to bite me, then tear it's fucking body off of it.

[azmanabdula]

@MaxWyght i remember Mel gibson said they were Mayans, (Facepalm)

Aztecs did the whole, "ritualistic butchery to appease the sun god" thing : )

good movie though, great actors ; )

[azmanabdula]

@handroids1981 You Too? LMAO cracks me up , get it!

[azmanabdula]

@healingseekers that Mel Gibson -_- Film Apocalypto had a scene where a boy was cut badly down the leg, and the mother was making the ants bite the wound shut and snapping off the heads, the kid was screaming : )

[handroids1981]

like if Cracked brought you here

[MaxWyght]

@HomeMadeZin apocalypto.

that weird ass movie where amazon tribes are captured by the aztecs, and some of the tribesmen are sacrificed on the pyramid.