Can Overuse of Kambô Cause Psychosis?

Kambô is an emerging ritual, which involves the application of the toxin produced by Phyllomedusa bicolor to a freshly burnt area to heal chronic diseases of the mind and body. Due to the widespread use of kambô, more cases of symptomatic health conditions are being discovered. In this case study, w...

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Autores principales: Roy, Renitha, Baranwal, Aparna, Espiridion, Eduardo D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Psychiatry
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6084690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30109163
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2770
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description Kambô is an emerging ritual, which involves the application of the toxin produced by Phyllomedusa bicolor to a freshly burnt area to heal chronic diseases of the mind and body. Due to the widespread use of kambô, more cases of symptomatic health conditions are being discovered. In this case study, we report a patient with psychosis potentially due to the kambô ritual.
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spelling pubmed-60846902018-08-14 Can Overuse of Kambô Cause Psychosis? Roy, Renitha Baranwal, Aparna Espiridion, Eduardo D Cureus Psychiatry Kambô is an emerging ritual, which involves the application of the toxin produced by Phyllomedusa bicolor to a freshly burnt area to heal chronic diseases of the mind and body. Due to the widespread use of kambô, more cases of symptomatic health conditions are being discovered. In this case study, we report a patient with psychosis potentially due to the kambô ritual. Cureus 2018-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6084690/ /pubmed/30109163 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2770 Text en Copyright © 2018, Roy et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Can Overuse of Kambô Cause Psychosis?
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