Frog poison ‘natural therapy’ linked to Aussie woman’s death
A traditional Amazonian medicine is in the spotlight after a NSW practitioner went into cardiac arrest during the 'cleansing procedure'
A giant green monkey frog from the Amazon is suspended in the spread-eagle position, string tied carefully around each of its legs.
A stick is used to scrape the poisonous secretions from its skin, and the frog is released.
This secretion, known as kambo, is dried and mixed with a little water, and small dots of the mixture are placed on patches of a recipient’s skin that have been burned with a hot stick.
This allows the poison to enter the lymphatic system.
