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  • Into these tiny burns which look like cigarette burn marks, is applied the sticky poisonous slime of a frog known in Brazil as the "kambo".

    Desicritics Uma Ranganathan 2009

  • Ash content of all fermented foods showed a substantial increase on that of the unfermented substrate, which, in part, reflects the mineral contribution made by clay scraped from the interior of the fermentation vessel during preparation but also, in the case of sigda and particularly furundu, the liberal addition of kambo (Table 1).

    12 Cassava Processing in Africa 1992

  • the eagles qbs def. have the two hottest wives on this list, a playboy playmate, and heather mitts said kambo on January 3, 2007 6:02 PM.

    YesButNoButYes: Who Are They Now? The NFL Quarterbacks' Wives Club (and girlfriends, too) 2007

  • Technically speaking, kambo is a glue-like toxic secretion released on the skin of a giant monkey frog, known by herpetologists as Phyllomedusa bicolor, when the amphibian feels threatened.

    Can You Poison Your Way to Good Health? By 2021

  • “It’s like you’re having a fever or a major allergic reaction,” said Julia Allison, 39, now a media strategist for tech companies in San Francisco, recalling her first time taking kambo, a poisonous substance from an Amazonian frog that is trending as an alt-wellness wonder drug.

    Can You Poison Your Way to Good Health? By 2021

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