Kambo: A ritualistic healing substance from an Amazonian frog and a source of new treatments
<p>Kambo is the name of a complex mixture of a number of bioactive peptides, secreted via the skin of a tropical frog, Phyllomedusa bicolor. Since centuries this secretion is harvested from the living animal by members of tribes living in the Amazonian forest, and applied to little wounds in t...
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Main Author: | Jan M Keppel Hesselink (Author) |
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Open Journal of Pain Medicine - Peertechz Publications,
2018-10-30.
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