Derived from an Amazonian frog, Kambo is catching on as an alt-wellness wonder drug Kambo is catching on among the same crowd of coastal New Age elites Burning Man psychonauts, Silicon Valley disrupters, plant-medicine proselytes that rallied around ayahuasca, the hallucinogenic rainforest tea, a decade ago Steve Dumain’s utensils for using kambo, an Amazonian frog poison drug, in Point Pinole, California. The New York Times
“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. “Then your face starts to blow up.”