Kambo: Australia investigates suspected frog mucus ritual deaths

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Kambo: Australia investigates suspected frog mucus ritual deaths

 

For the past two weeks, a small courthouse tucked away in a lush corner of eastern Australia has heard confronting and unusual evidence about the sudden deaths of two locals.

 

Natasha Lechner died from a suspected cardiac event, while authorities believe Jarrad Antonovich died after injuries from severe vomiting.

 

Both incidents happened shortly after they used kambo - poisonous frog mucus - in an ancient Amazonian ritual.

 

Kambo - also known as sapo - is a waxy substance harvested by scraping the skin of a live giant monkey frog.

 

The frog, found throughout the Amazon, secretes the substance as a defence mechanism - to kill or warn off animals that try to eat it.

 

But in a kambo ceremony, humans use it to trigger an intense so-called detoxification process.

 

After participants drink over a litre of water, small burns are created on their skin and the substance is applied to the open wounds.

 

It causes blood pressure to rise, the heart to race and the body to purge by vomiting or defecating - often both. Symptoms range in severity, and typically last up to half an hour.

 

Indigenous people in South America have used kambo for centuries, believing it wards off bad luck and improves hunting skills.

 

These days, it is a shamanic ritual which proponents assert rids the body of toxins, brings mental clarity and treats various illnesses.

 

But there is no research proving its supposed health benefits - and it is banned by Australian health regulators.

 

Kambo has been linked to deaths, seizures, liver failure, and heart attacks.

 

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[PleaseBlitz]

Just do a juice cleanse dummies. 

[CobraCommander]

Detoxifying your body you "toxified" in the first place. What a bunch of malarky. 

 

Also dying from vomit injuries sounds like a really painful way to die. 

 

 

[Riggo-toni]

Anyone who willfully participates in a frog mucus ritual deserves to die.