About Me
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I started beading when I was a little girl. My mother is a seamstress and I remember using her supplies to make jewelry. I loved playing with her sequins and buttons. Once I got older I started making friendship bracelets and graduated to the big plastic beads found at most craft stores.
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For centuries, Indigenous Amazonians have extracted poison for its alleged healing powers and utilized the venom in a sacred ritual known as a Kambo ceremony. Kambo ceremonies are believed to detox the body through an intense 20 minutes of flu-like purging, allegedly helping to dispose of toxins, while also strengthening stamina, promoting clarity, and addressing other health concerns such as anxiety and depression.
Since these frogs are nocturnal it is difficult to collect Kambo.
After capturing a frog, a shaman collects the waxy secretions by tying the frog up by the arms and legs. They will carefully scrape the secretions from the back/legs, wipe it onto wooden sticks, and leave them to dry.
Once the shaman has collected the Kambo, they release the frog, relatively unharmed, back into the forest.
