Woman completed course on frog toxin rituals weeks before death in ‘Kambo’ ceremony, NSW inquest hears

Natasha Lechner had frog poison applied to her chest during ‘Kambo’ ritual and likely suffered sudden cardiac event, court told

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A woman who died in a northern rivers home in a shamanic ceremony involving the secretion of a South American tree frog and Amazonian plants had recently completed a course which merged Indigenous American and traditional Chinese medicinal practices, a New South Wales court has heard.

Natasha Lechner died suddenly and violently in March 2019 at the age of 39 in the “Kambo” ritual in Mullumbimby, weeks after completing a course through the International Association of Kambo Practitioners.

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