Two healers who use an Amazonian tree frog poison, which is under investigation following a woman's death, have been banned from operating in Victoria and South Australia while an inquiry is underway.

Get the Well Enough newsletter by Emilie Lavinia and make sense of the wild world of wellness “It’s like you’re having a fever or a major allergic reaction,” says Julia Allison, 39, now a media ...

A coronial inquest has been told a Mullumbimby woman who died minutes after using Kambo frog poison was not properly advised about the risks involved. Natasha Lechner died during a Kambo ceremony in ...

A couple has been banned from practising 'kambo' treatment after a woman who underwent the same controversial procedure died. Carlie J Angel and Brad T Williams from Christies Beach, south of Adelaide ...

It was about a decade ago, in the jungle city of Iquitos, Peru, that Caitlin Thompson first heard about Kambo, a traditional medicine used by some indigenous groups in the Amazon. Kambo is the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Toxins extracted from the skin of tree frogs and used as traditional medicine is taking Australia by storm. Known as Kambo, the drug is being used to treat anxiety, depression, fevers and increasing ...