comic Cao Yi
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□ Changjiang Daily reporter Zhao Jiaxin
Recently, a netizen reported through the Wuhan city message board that his friend joined a WeChat group called "Cosmic Energy Lu Tiancao Eight Dimension Energy Loves Great Harvest". In this group of more than 270 people, the group owner kept boasting about the amazing efficacy of the so-called Lu Tiancao products, and even claimed that "long-term use of products can make people rejuvenate." "There have been tens of thousands of cancer patients who have been cured after using Lu Tiancao products."... In recent days, Yangtze River Daily reporters have entered the group and found that whenever new people join the group, the group owner will issue a set of "combination punch" fixed speech to promote the magical effect of the product. These propaganda that seem to be clearly contrary to common sense, from time to time, there are suspected "sentences" to respond, and even "showing one's own words" to confirm the effect.
The reporter contacted Ms. Huang, a citizen who was pulled into the group by an acquaintance and purchased a product of 2,000 yuan. She said bluntly that she had hypertension and . She believed in the publicity in the group and bought the product to lower blood pressure. Unexpectedly, while reducing the amount of antihypertensive drugs, I used the product for a week and my blood pressure soared to 150mmHg . She quickly threw all the remaining products into the trash can and resumed taking antihypertensive drugs.
■ Crazy publicity of
"Ten thousand cancer patients have all recovered after using the product"
"I am 65 years old this year, and now I have been menstruating for three consecutive months. Lu Tiancao can really rejuvenate. Only after using it yourself can you believe that there are such magical products in the world";
"In 2015, I couldn't hear it at my left ear. I used it a little at night and could hear it in more than 10 days";
"Used with 3 months of Oriental Fairy Bath, Breast Cancer It's good";
"Mr. Liu has been inherited from gout and his family for many years. He used Lu Tiancao Dongfang Xianyu for 1 and a half years. The gout has been cured and the genetic vitiligo has been cured soon. He can be cured 100% of the roots within 3 years, and the roots can be cured and removed, and genetically improved, and will never recur";
"Apply good stomach, intestines, headaches, heart, kidney function, liver and other various organs in the human body, master key, and all kinds of diseases in the human body"...
html On April 24, the reporter entered the group. In the group, the group owner was called "Teacher Yu" by netizens. The reporter saw that "Teacher Yu" kept scrolling in the group and posting comparison pictures and magical text descriptions. As long as a newcomer is pulled into the group, the group leader will send the above-mentioned "combination punch" techniques into the group.reporter noticed that every day, a large number of texts and pictures bragging about the magical effects of Lu Tiancao appear in the group, and there are also suspected "support" feedback on the effects after use. The reporter sorted out these interactive communications and found that diabetes , hypertension, gout, breast cancer, vitiligo and other diseases were all "cured" by Lu Tiancao products. In the
group, "Teacher Yu" even claimed: "There have been tens of thousands of cancer patients who have used Lu Tiancao products and all have been cured."
■ The reporter secretly visited
and paid first and then mailed it. If you want friends, you can also get rewards for
. The reporter asked "Teacher Yu" in the group on the grounds that he had fatty liver: Can Lu Tiancao products cure fatty liver? After a while, "Teacher Yu" took the initiative to add reporters as friends. The reporter asked "Teacher Yu" to introduce the product functions. She responded: "Look more about the information in the group. If you don't know, please ask me. Just now, someone in the group shared that his hair turned black and the effect was very good. He took a photo in less than 10 days."
"I have a liver problem, which is a bit different from his." The reporter questioned. "Teacher Yu" said: "Lu Tiancao products can be treated with any disease (external product, transdermal absorption)."
reporter asked her again: "Is this product a health product or a medicine?" In response, "Teacher Yu" did not directly answer, but said: "Lu Tiancao series products subvert everyone's cognition and cover the functions of all health products. It is a Chinese herbal formula and a topical product. Among them, Lu Tiancao Dingyan soap can wash your face, wash your hair and take a bath, and apply it wherever you hurt."
reporter asked whether the product has offline sales points, but she did not answer.The reporter suggested that she had the intention to purchase, and she proposed to "get the money directly, pay first, and then mail it", and said that 2,000 yuan can be a member and experience 100 boxes of Dingyan Soap or 100 pieces of aloe essence. In the group's publicity, the national unified retail price of Lu Tiancao Tianji Dingyan Soap is 398 yuan per box, and the national unified retail price of Lu Tiancao Aloe Essence is 666 yuan per piece.
reporter expressed concern about the security of this payment method. She said: "Don't worry, I'm responsible." In order to attract reporters to place an order, "Teacher Yu" also said that if they buy friends and they buy it, the company will reward the product 100%, so there will be no need to spend money to buy the product in the future.
■ The blood pressure of the deceived elderly man
after using it soared to 150, and secretly threw the product into the trash can
html In early April, Ms. Zhu, a citizen, found that her friend Ms. Huang bought Lu Tiancao products, and every time Ms. Huang saw her, she promoted the effect of Lu Tiancao products. Ms. Zhu felt something was wrong, so she asked Ms. Huang to pull her into the group. "According to the group, Lu Tiancao products are simply omnipotent, which obviously goes against common sense." Ms. Zhu hopes that reporters can conduct investigations to avoid more people being deceived. htmlOn the afternoon of April 23, the reporter and Ms. Huang met in a park in , Jiang'an District. Ms. Huang is 71 years old this year. After being pulled into the group by an acquaintance, she bought two products: Lu Tiancao Aloe Essence and Lu Tiancao Dingyan Soap."I have hypertension and I can't live without antihypertensive drugs all year round." After joining the group, Ms. Huang asked in the group whether the product can cure hypertension or control blood pressure without medication.
Ms. Huang said that the group leader always inadvertently talks about the benefits of Lu Tiancao products, and constantly reminds her to pay attention to her health. After a while, her vigilance was greatly reduced. After the group owner once again shared the "experience" of a woman from other places using Lu Tiancao products, she was moved - in this case, the woman claimed that Lu Tiancao products reduced her father's blood pressure from 160 mmHg to 127 mmHg.
According to the request of the group owner, Ms. Huang transferred 2,000 yuan on WeChat. Two days later, she received 100 boxes of Dingyan Soap from Lu Tiancao products. "The shelf life is not indicated on the outer packaging of the product. I asked the group owner, and the group owner said that there is no shelf life and can be used for 2 years."
Ms. Huang told reporters that the group owner introduced that soap can quickly open up the microcirculation, discharge toxins from the skin layer, and have a strong and effective effect. It scrubs the black rotten oil and fat impurities in the body, softens the calcified impurities in the body, purifies and discharges from the inside to the outside, and solves the problem of size and size of the whole body.
Thinking of the product so effective, Ms. Huang tried to reduce the amount of antihypertensive drugs while using it. But a week later, she always felt dizzy. Her daughter saw her discomfort and took her to the hospital for examination. The high pressure actually had 150 mm Hg. "I drink antihypertensive drugs all year round, and pay attention to diet and exercise, and the high pressure is stable below 130."
Ms. Huang did not dare to tell her daughter about secretly reducing the dosage of medicine, nor did she let her daughter know that she had purchased Lu Tiancao products. After returning home, she quietly threw all the products into the trash cans in the 5th building of her own building. Then, she deleted the transfer information and exited the group.
Ms. Huang said that she had participated in some activities in physical health products stores before, and bought some health products from time to time to go home. Her daughter had told her many times, and even had conflicts with her daughter. Later, she promised her daughter that she would not buy health products again, so that her family relationship was eased. "This time I'll just spend money to learn a lesson. I will never believe this kind of publicity again. If you are not feeling well, you still have to go to a regular hospital. Whether it is traditional Chinese medicine conditioning or Western medicine treatment, it will definitely be more reliable than this kind of products." Ms. Huang said that after taking antihypertensive drugs as directed by the doctor, her blood pressure stabilized again.
■ Industry insiders
sales routines
WeChat group "guerrilla warfare" cannot be prevented
What are the tricks behind the sales of Lu Tiancao products? On April 24, a reporter from the Yangtze River Daily contacted Xiao Li, the former head of health care products sales. Xiao Li said that he has done sales of multiple types of health care products. Two years ago, he withdrew from the health care product sales industry, which he had been in for almost 20 years, and switched to real estate sales.
Xiao Li said that Lu Tiancao products were released around 2017, and he went to Shenzhen for inspection in 2019.He told reporters: "Although the sales model of Lu Tiancao products has been changed online, the essence has not changed - the product will basically not have any effect, but it will not have much impact on the human body. It is just infinitely exaggerated publicity."
Xiao Li introduced that in the health care product sales industry, there are always several "obsessive-compulsive"-style elderly people in their hands. Even though they know that the so-called health products are not good for their bodies, once they learn that they have new products, they will still enjoy buying them. The general operating mode is to first attract these "core people" to become WeChat friends. Once there is a turmoil, the group will be disbanded and a new group needs to be established, then these people will be brought into the group, and then the new product effect will be continuously promoted to make these people the first batch of consumers.
"Cosmic Energy Lu Tiancao Eight Dimensional Energy Loves Great Harvest" Are the so-called healing cases posted in the WeChat group real or false? In response, Xiao Li said: "It's definitely a responsibilities. When we run physical stores, we will also take similar measures to let those who are keen on buying health products. They have an almost fanatical fascination with health products. As long as we make demands and promise benefits, they will help promote them."
Xiao Li introduced that the elderly don't spend much money on buying products every time. Even if they find that they are deceived, they will not make trouble for two or three thousand yuan. In addition, many elderly people pay special attention to health preservation, so sales staff will seize the psychology of the elderly and constantly imply that when you are in good health, they will bring surprises and happiness to their children, which will reduce a lot of burden. "After multiple methods, it is very likely that these elderly people who have some spare money and want to be healthy are deceived."
reporter asked Xiao Li another "strange phenomenon" after joining the group: in the past 10 days after entering the "cosmic energy" group, the reporter tried to add more than 100 group members alone, either unable to add, or basically did not communicate with the reporter after adding it.
Xiao Li told reporters that this is another routine. "We will encourage those who buy products to attract more people, and for this, they will reward them with the opportunity to enjoy the free use of the product, so that a group of people will quickly gather." Xiao Li said that the sellers knew in their hearts that the product did not have the same effect as advertised. If customers are allowed to contact each other, it will be exposed soon. "We will ask sales staff to tell those people that after A pulled B into the group, he bought the product because of C's introduction, and the reward for free use of the product is still A, which avoids mutual communication among group members."
reporter also raised the above questions in his communication with "Teacher Yu": "Privately ask how effective the group members used in the group are, why no one responded?" "Teacher Yu" said: "Isn't it better to ask me?"
■ Expert
There is no Lu Tiancao in traditional Chinese medicine
Citizens must be cautious about avoiding being deceived
reporter from the group's product pictures that Lu Tiancao Dingyan Soap has no production date, no production address, and no manufacturer, only slogans such as "registration code", "post code" and "return to 18-year-old girl's generation". On the latest packaging of this product, the four words "Zhaoshoutian Moxibustion" appear. Group members expressed confusion about the changes in packaging. "Teacher Yu" explained: "In order to protect our products, the company will not let the publicity be so good. You can just know that it is so good, so you can use it with confidence."
html On May 5, the reporter searched with "Zhaoshou" through the "Aiqicha" system and found that since January 2022, 47 companies named after "Zhaoshou Biotechnology" have been registered across the country. Most of the companies' business scopes indicate "daily chemical products". The business scope of some companies includes "health food production and health care services (non-medical)", and none of the companies' business scopes include "drugs".The reporter consulted an internal medicine expert at Tongji Hospital affiliated to Huazhong University of Science and Technology about this matter. The expert said that the cancer, gout, hypertension, diabetes and other diseases that Lu Tiancao products claim to be treated are all global problems, and a very small number of cases are cured for some special reasons. But as the group said, curing it in the external way of Lu Tiancao products is "absolutely impossible."
He also said that there is no medicinal material such as Lu Tiancao in traditional Chinese medicine, only Azalea, and Azalea is a fruit introduced from abroad. "In addition, the cure cases they claimed did not form medical evidence, which is absolutely unreliable. Citizens must treat them with caution and avoid being deceived!" Liao Haolei, professor at
, Wuhan University, believes that the reason why the elderly are prone to such scams is that, first, the elderly have some chronic diseases and are afraid of physical diseases; second, the family does not care enough for the elderly due to work and other reasons, which leads to the lack of family affection. Those sales staff make the elderly feel warm, so they are easy to accept sales staff emotionally.
Professor Liao advises that the elderly must obtain scientific health care knowledge from formal channels, and seek medical treatment in formal medical institutions, and do not easily believe in so-called special medicines, magical medicines, and imported medicines to prevent them from falling into the scam of "drug escort". It is recommended that young people contact the elderly at home more often, understand their current situation, pay attention to the elderly’s physical health and psychological conditions in a timely manner, and popularize anti-fraud knowledge for them in daily life.
Handle partner of Hubei Qianmu Law Firm, said that the relevant publicity of Lu Tiancao products is suspected of false publicity. If the product manufacturer itself does not have the qualifications to produce drugs or health products, it is suspected of illegal production and sales of drugs. It is recommended that relevant departments strictly investigate it.
Source: Yangtze Daily
