There's a new all natural drug in town and whether it's a poison or a miracle cure is in the eye of the person taking it.

It's called combo and it comes from the Amazon.

If your shaman gives you some it might just make you an all-around

better, smarter and healthier person or it might do nothing more than make you vomit all over the place.

Which one is it?

Well we'll find out right now, un Scuptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

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Today we're going to have a look at an alternative wellness therapy,

plagiarized from an indigenous Amazonian ritual practice and today sold profitably to gullible

Westerners intent on blending the ever popular ancient wisdom with the modern wellness fad. It's called combo. In Brazilian

Portuguese it's more like kumbo but since I can't pronounce that very well I'm

going to say it in the common American way, which is combo.

Combo is a paste made from the secretions of poison tree frogs,

and when a very small dose is spread into a break in the skin,

it causes severe vomiting, diarrhea, and other

adverse and potentially dangerous reactions. Consequently, it has quickly become a

favorite method of virtue signaling, a way to shout,

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