Kambo is a poison used as a traditional medicine in purging or cleansing rituals - It is a waxy substance collected by scraping the skin of an Amazonian tree frog - The skin is blistered in ...

Silicon Valley elites are employing an ancient Amazonian frog-mucus ritual to rid themselves of stress. The practice, called kambo, involves burning the skin with a smoldering vine or wooden stick ...

Kambo is a ceremony where your skin is burnt with these little dots, and then you put up the poison from the Amazon—it's like ...

Most everyone recognizes frogs. Frogs, like salamanders and newts, are amphibians. Unlike salamanders, they have made a major evolutionary detour from the body plan of their ancient ancestors. The ...

Once the most abundant and widespread frog species in North America, leopard frogs were widely collected not only for dissection but for the food industry (frog legs) as well. However, massive ...

The Eiffinger's tree frog (Kurixalus eiffingeri), found on Ishigaki and Iriomote islands in Japan, has a unique biological adaptation: its tadpoles do not defecate during their early developmental ...

Many species of frog are known to be poisonous, such as the often colourful poison dart frogs. But although incredibly rare, there are species that are venomous too. There are currently only two ...

11C6521N) and the Biology Department at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Many of us are familiar with the story of The Frog Prince, where a princess kisses a frog and, to her surprise, it transforms ...

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. Police allege a “bomb-making” ...