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 ...

An Austrailan wellness guru, who ran a Kambo frog poison session which led to a man’s death, has argued he has been “unfairly barred” from running similar retreats by the health watchdog following the ...

phyllomedusa bicolor What is kambo? Kambo , also called sapo or 'frog poison', is a natural non-psychedelic medicine made from the secretions of the giant monkey tree frog ( phyllomedusa bicolor ) and ...

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 voice-recording of the man who suffered a fatal reaction to poison and hallucinogenics has resonated with a coroner listening to it at an inquest surrounding his death.

*Refinery29 does not condone or encourage the use of non-evidence-based medicines like kambo in any way. I turned up to the ceremony, two litres of water tucked under each arm. I knocked on the door ...

Venom from an Amazonian tree frog can cause diarrhea and heart palpitations -- but fans claim that it can cure everything from anxiety to migraines. Getty Images/iStockphoto Silicon Valley executives ...