Is it true that the ancients bit their tongues to commit suicide, and is it true that they bit their

Categories: Medical & Health >> Common sense of the human body.

Problem description: In some martial arts**, you can often see the description of "biting your tongue and committing suicide", can you really kill yourself by biting your tongue? What makes sense to it?

Analysis: From the perspective of modern medicine, there is no scientific basis for the description of martial arts ** that kills you immediately as soon as you bite your tongue. In fact, in real life, we often see many people who have injured their tongues for various reasons, or even partially missing, and are still alive.

If I had to ask what was the cause of death if someone died after biting their tongue, I think if other causes other than tongue trauma could be ruled out, it would be hemorrhagic shock caused by massive blood loss. Because the blood vessels at the base of the tongue are large, and because the tongue is in the mouth, it is not easy to stop bleeding by compressing the blood vessels.

In film and television dramas, we often see that in order to ensure the secret, the hero and heroine will choose to bite their tongues to end their lives, many people think that this is just a bridge with film and television dramas, in real life, biting the tongue cannot kill themselves, is it really cracked ants? The following is a specific introduction to the question of whether it is really possible to die by biting your tongue in ancient times.

In fact, most of us think that it is impossible to bite the tongue and commit suicide, because after all, the human tongue is not a key organ of the human body, and there are some people who do not have a tongue in real life, but it is still or, in fact, biting the tongue can really cause people to die, but the time and cause of death are very different from those in film and television dramas.

First of all, after biting the tongue, people will not die immediately like in film and television dramas, it will have a slow process, as for the reason for the death of the tongue-biting suicide, many people see that there will be a large amount of blood flowing out of the mouth of the letter potato who bites the tongue and commits suicide, so they think that the tongue-biting person dies because of excessive blood loss, but in fact, it is not, because there is no large blood distribution on the tongue, so even if the tongue is cut off, at most it will be like cutting off a finger to lose blood, which will not lead to death.

In fact, the real reason for the death of the vast majority of people who bite their tongues and commit suicide is because of suffocation, because when people bite their tongues and commit suicide, they will generally bite off from the root of the tongue, and the remaining part of the tongue will try their best to bury it back because of the severe pain, from blocking the trachea of the whole person, and people will die of suffocation for a long time, but the time will last for about a few minutes.

The severe pain after biting the tongue will make people temporarily lose their minds, so there will be shortness of breath, and at this time, a large amount of bleeding and oral secretions in the mouth are likely to be inhaled into the trachea to cause choking, which will further aggravate the lack of oxygen in the human body, resulting in the so-called mechanical asphyxia and traumatic coma, and people will die after a long time, so it is true that the tongue biting committal suicide will not die immediately.