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In this episode, Megan talks about the practice of Kambo, an ancient South American tradition of cleansing/purging the body with toxic secretions derived from the Giant Leaf frog. Having found its way into Silicon Valley as the next trending homeopathic medicine (move aside micro-dosing) we ask the question: how appropriate is it to use these culturally sacred practices outside of the tribes from which they originated?

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Episode Sources:

• Image 1: Phyllomedusa bicolor aka the giant leaf frog contains the toxic secretion used in Kambo ceremonies. The secretions carry unique opioid peptides called deltorphins (which do not occur naturally in any other species) and demorphin.

• Image 2: Secretions being collected from a live giant leaf frog. It’s legs are bound in order to induce the release of Kambo from it’s skin - a reaction that occurs only when the giant leaf frog feels stressed or threatened.

• Image 3: An indigenous Matses healer prepares to place Kambo onto a participant.

• Image 4: Kambo mucous being scraped onto a medicine stick.

• Image 5: Burn marks on a patient’s arm shaped in a line 4-5 burns deep, typical of a Kambo cleansing ritual.

• https://amazonexplorer.com/culture-of-indigenous-matses-people-the-frog-medicine-kambo/

• https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15563650.2018.1457153

• https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1556-4029.13641

• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214750022000865

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7284396/

• https://clinmedjournals.org/articles/iacp/international-archives-of-clinical-pharmacology-iacp-4-017.php?jid=iacp

• https://www.insider.com/silicon-valley-elites-are-poisoning-themselves-with-kambo-frog-mucus-2021-1

• https://shamanicsnuff.com/shop/kambo/kambo-sticks/

• https://www.vice.com/en/article/gqkxa9/kambo-ceremony-alcoholism-purging-uk

• https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/style/self-care/kambo-tree-frog-detox.html?referringSource=articleShare

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