Aired (August 11, 2024): Doc Ferds Recio traveled to Siquijor to explore the poisonous pufferfish species used by the people of Lazi, Siquijor, for medicinal purposes. Meanwhile, Doc Nielsen Donato rescued a civet cat in Batangas with a rotting tooth that needed extraction. During the rescue, he was bitten!
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00:00On the other side of the island that can be eaten from the sea,
00:10the tasty puffer fish or butete pa was eaten by a family in Isilan.
00:18In an instant, two children came back to life.
00:26It's July this year.
00:29But on Sigihor Island, puffer fish are used as medicine.
00:37Are puffer fish a blessing or a curse?
00:47Why did you call us?
00:49I feel sorry for the puffer fish.
00:51The only thing I can see is that there's a lack of air.
00:53And there's a fish on the side.
00:56I was attacked here.
01:07There's a family of puffer fish that was turned over here.
01:12Look at this.
01:14There are kits here.
01:17Sadly, not all of them survive in the wild.
01:36We're now in Sigihor.
01:38This is what they call the healing island or mystical island.
01:41During the Lent season, they usually get materials from nature.
01:52They usually choose the ones with stings.
01:56And when they're at sea, the first thing they look for is puffer fish or butete.
02:03The fish that float when they feel threatened.
02:06They say there are a lot of them here on this shore.
02:12Look at that.
02:21Less than a minute later, the puffer fish showed up.
02:33Instead of moving away, it became curious and slowly approached me.
02:41Its eyes are big and it has a pointed mouth.
02:44It's like a cute cartoon character.
02:52Later on,
02:56a colorful puffer fish showed up.
03:02Because of its beautiful color, it's impossible not to notice it below.
03:07But don't be fooled.
03:09Because puffer fish suddenly become brave when there's danger in their lives.
03:17When cornered,
03:19the puffer fish can swallow its body to scare the enemy.
03:25The white-spotted puffer fish or butete is busy looking for food.
03:33It's eager to eat the grass one by one to have breakfast.
03:39Until it's attention is turned to a fish.
03:43It's just a joke.
03:46The puffer fish is not afraid of anything.
03:49Until it's attention is turned to a fish.
03:52It's just a joke.
03:58But it's not going to be easy.
04:05Because the fish is fast.
04:11The puffer fish doesn't stop chasing it.
04:16Until finally,
04:19it has food.
04:25But it's still not happy.
04:29The upside-down jellyfish is next.
04:38Using four strong teeth,
04:41it swallows the jellyfish one by one until it has no escape.
04:50It's a success today.
04:57If below, they're just afraid of the big fish,
05:03above,
05:07they're really dead.
05:10This July, two kids are on the hospital's head-on arrival
05:14because of eating jellyfish in Lamitan, Basilan.
05:20A member of their family was rushed to the hospital.
05:25According to Nysa, the mother of the child who died,
05:29the jellyfish was given by her neighbor to the kids.
05:35I accompanied my son to eat.
05:37I cooked two pieces.
05:39After that, we didn't know what to do.
05:42That night,
05:45around 2 a.m.,
05:48my husband's niece,
05:52my children were sleeping.
05:54Until 4 a.m.,
05:59one of them died.
06:01After that, my son woke up.
06:03I said,
06:04your cousin is dead.
06:06My son said,
06:08I'm still sleeping.
06:09He said, his stomach hurts.
06:11I cooked two pieces of jellyfish.
06:14My son and I ate it.
06:17Nysa felt dizzy and nauseous.
06:21When the two kids died,
06:23I felt like I was weak.
06:26I couldn't stand up straight.
06:30I felt nauseous.
06:32I couldn't walk.
06:34I couldn't do anything.
06:36My head hurts.
06:38My chest aches.
06:40I can't do anything.
06:42The nurse said,
06:44her heart and brain are gone.
06:46Smooth Blossom,
06:48a type of jellyfish,
06:50is said to be eaten by children.
06:54There is no antidote or medicine
06:55if you are poisoned by jellyfish.
06:59According to experts,
07:00if you accidentally eat jellyfish,
07:03you need to give oxygen to the patient
07:05and immediately go to the nearest hospital.
07:10There is a type of tetrodotoxin
07:13that can be found in the skin and innards of jellyfish.
07:19But the reputation of pufferfish
07:21in the province of Siquijor is different.
07:25According to the physician,
07:27pufferfish can be cured.
07:32All poisonous things
07:35and living things
07:38in the sea,
07:41we take them
07:43and burn them
07:45every Friday
07:47and cook them
07:49every Saturday
07:51that we call black wax.
07:57If it becomes poisonous,
07:59they will use it for healing
08:01or the so-called
08:03injection.
08:05For Jonel,
08:07even if there is a long-term poison of pufferfish,
08:09it is good
08:11to heal.
08:14They usually use
08:16the poisonous things
08:18in the sea
08:20to make jellyfish.
08:23Our medicine
08:25will also use
08:27poisonous materials
08:29to make pufferfish
08:31heal.
08:33According to experts,
08:35pufferfish can give temporary infection
08:38because of the warm moist air
08:41that they get here.
08:43Although there are other research results
08:45using tetrodotoxin
08:47as cancer pain treatment
08:49or local anesthetic in other countries,
08:51it still needs to be thoroughly evaluated
08:53by our health department.
08:55Using pufferfish,
08:57botete, or tikung
08:59is not yet a scientific study.
09:01We encourage people
09:03to consult
09:05doctors.
09:11It is true that
09:13pufferfish can be poisonous,
09:15but they do not intend
09:17to be food
09:19for humans.
09:21Underneath,
09:23pufferfish play
09:25a more important role
09:27in cleaning the coral reef
09:29so that we can
09:31eat more pufferfish.
09:33Again,
09:35not all pufferfish
09:37can be eaten.
09:39Most of them
09:41are better
09:43to help us.
09:45When to remove
09:47a pufferfish
09:49because it is already
09:51rotting?
09:53But,
09:55it won't be easy.
10:11A pufferfish
10:13that was rescued
10:15from a fish tank.
10:19This is also a family
10:21of a pufferfish found
10:23in a floating house.
10:27They were lucky to be
10:29saved by caregivers.
10:39Not in the wild,
10:41but behind
10:43Inidoro is a pufferfish named
10:45Sangsang.
10:47It was temporarily placed here
10:49by Erwin.
10:51Sangsang is a hunter.
10:53How many weeks
10:55has this pufferfish been here?
10:57Two weeks.
10:59How did you get hold of this pufferfish?
11:01I asked my friend.
11:03He told me that someone
11:05is buying pufferfish from him
11:07and he will pay for it.
11:09Why did you call us?
11:11I felt sorry for the pufferfish.
11:13I saw that it was lacking food
11:15and it had a wound on its side.
11:17Are there a lot of pufferfish here?
11:19Yes, there are a lot of pufferfish here.
11:21I always encounter pufferfish
11:23on the other side of the river.
11:25Do you see pufferfish in the river?
11:27Yes, I do.
11:29What I do is to cut the pufferfish.
11:33We're going to wear
11:35these long leather gloves.
11:37My fingers are protected.
11:41We have to be careful.
11:45The second challenge here is
11:47that this prison is very low.
11:51It's a bit hard
11:53to look around here.
11:59Despite being hidden
12:01and hard to see in the wild,
12:03people keep
12:05encountering
12:07civet cats
12:09and humans.
12:11They get caught
12:13in the traps in the jungle
12:15and become
12:17their pets.
12:23No matter how fast
12:25an animal can be caught
12:27from its natural habitat,
12:29it is twice as hard
12:31to catch them in the jungle.
12:33If you take out one species
12:35in an environment,
12:37let's say, the civet cats
12:39are gone,
12:41the ecosystem will collapse.
12:45Civet cats are very important
12:47to us.
12:49They didn't just become famous
12:51because of coffee.
12:53It is important to give them
12:55a chance to return.
12:57They are an important
12:59seed disperser.
13:01They are important as a predator
13:03also to do the balance
13:05in the ecology.
13:29It is a good sign.
13:31It means that
13:33its wild instincts
13:35are strong
13:37and it should be
13:39taken care of.
13:45It's a good thing
13:47I have gloves.
13:49It's so beautiful.
13:53It's a female.
13:55It's a female.
13:57It's teeth are broken.
14:01It's infected.
14:03I think
14:05we'll sedate it
14:07and we have to extract
14:09the fractured root.
14:11After I examine it,
14:13I want to look at my arm
14:15because I touched it.
14:19Wow!
14:21Imagine if I don't
14:23have gloves,
14:25my fingers will be broken.
14:31Even with gloves,
14:33its teeth are broken.
14:35That's okay.
14:37That's how it is.
14:39It has to defend itself.
14:41And...
14:43the broken teeth
14:45is a good sign.
14:47This is the upper
14:49and this is the lower.
14:51That's a good sign that it's still strong.
14:53We will bring
14:55Sang Sang to the rescue center
14:57to treat and rehabilitate her.
15:09We can see how
15:11defensive Sang Sang is.
15:13And we'll have to sedate
15:15her
15:17so that
15:19we can do the procedure.
15:21Nek Korin is a family
15:23of musang
15:25that is held by the Department of Environment
15:27and Natural Resources.
15:29There are some
15:31turned over here.
15:33It's a family of palm civet.
15:35Look at this.
15:39It has kits.
15:41Two?
15:43Four.
15:45It has four kits.
15:47It gave birth.
15:49That's how many
15:51of these palm civets can give birth.
15:53But sadly,
15:55not all of them survive
15:57in the wild.
15:59The civet family was rescued
16:01from a clearing
16:03to build a house.
16:05We need to make sure
16:07that all musang
16:09are strong before releasing them.
16:17Now, back to Sang Sang.
16:19Another challenge
16:21is to get her out of the crate.
16:35Did you bite her?
16:37Two.
16:39We need to put her to sleep.
16:47I'm with the procedure
16:49biology students
16:51of UP Dos Baños.
16:53Do you see the black color?
16:55That's the bite mark.
16:57That's the part
16:59of the root
17:01that is
17:03decayed already.
17:05It looks like I'll have to suture
17:07the hole.
17:13Because the food
17:15is mixed with fruits
17:17and meat.
17:19If that hole is inserted,
17:21it can have
17:23continuous infection.
17:25I also gave
17:27Sang Sang medicine and vitamins.
17:35I'll wait for her to recover
17:37before releasing her to the wild.
17:39In between
17:41these houses
17:43and trees,
17:45there are some
17:47living beings.
17:51Like Sang Sang
17:53and the Musang family.
17:55And whenever
17:57there is a forest fire,
17:59they also
18:01lose their homes.
18:05Until when
18:07will they
18:09be a burden
18:11to us humans?
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