Users of a fashionable “detox” treatment involving a drug known as Kambo have been urged to steer clear of self-appointed “shamans” peddling the potentially deadly therapy.

One morning in late June, self-described wellness and transformation educator Jonathan Carrick and his client sit cross-legged on a blanket, on a bluff overlooking a Northern California beach. The ...

The 39-year-old died suddenly and violently after a ritual involving Amazonian frog poison in Mullumbimby in 2019 Vulnerable people are placing their trust in self-proclaimed healers who lack basic ...

A new wellness ritual is going viral. But at what cost to health and life? Originally practiced by Indigenous tribes of the Amazon, the Kambo ritual involves applying the toxic secretion of the giant ...

A North Coast woman who trained to become a kambo practitioner did not know about the risk of sudden death associated with the ritual using toxic secretions from a frog. Counsel assisting the Coroner, ...

Kambo is a South American healing ritual that incorporates the poisonous secretions of a frog. Indigenous peoples have used it for centuries but it can cause a range of unpleasant side effects. Share ...

In short: An inquest is being held in Byron Bay into the death of a man in 2021 after he was administered kambo frog poison. The inquest has heard the international kambo community has taken lessons ...

A NEW frog poison ritual that purges the body and makes you vomit, diarrhoea and sob is making it’s way onto the UK wellness scene. And while celebrities and the public alike claim to have reaped ...