Juiced up

What natural substance supposedly cures asthma, bronchitis, sluggishness and low sex drive? If you didn't say "frog juice" first, you're probably not alone, but that's the current thinking in some Andean cultures. Of course, they don't usually drink it neat. One recipe calls for ladles of hot, white bean broth, honey, raw aloe vera plant, maca (an Andean root) to be placed in a blender - and then for a frog to be banged against something hard to kill it, make two incisions along its belly, and off with its skin ... and then drop the frog in the blender as well. A blender burl later and voila - frog juice which supposedly stings a little as it goes down but, as one of the people interviewed for the Topix story is reported as saying "it gives you power".