India, Oct. 9 -- An 82-year-old Chinese woman was hospitalised after swallowing eight small live frogs, believing it would ease her lower back pain.

The woman, surnamed Zhang, said she was following a folklore she had heard, which said that eating live frogs could help relieve the pain she was experiencing from a herniated disc, according to a report by the South China Morning Post. Believing this theory, she asked her family to catch some live frogs for her, without informing them of her intentions.

After her family collected the frogs, all of which were smaller than an adult's palm, the elderly woman swallowed them live. She consumed three of the frogs right away and the remaining five the next day.

Soon after, she began experiencing...