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Alternative medicine

June 2024

  • Uncle Frog’s mushroom gummies

    Are mushroom gummies part of the ‘healthy high’ industry and how is it regulated?

    The recall of the gummies this week sparked concern about the spread of natural stimulants such as herbs and fungi in everyday products

May 2024

  • An inquest into his death heard that Jarrad Antonovich was a ‘gentle soul’ who was always looking to help others.

    A ‘vulnerable’ soul sought healing at a NSW spiritual retreat. Questions remain over his agonising death

  • Soulore ‘Lore’ Solaris arrives at an inquest into the death of Jarrad Antonovich at Byron Bay Coroners Court on Friday.

    Jarrad Antonovich inquest halted for potential criminal charges over death at NSW spiritual retreat

  • A frog is tied up as its secretions are extracted for use as kambo

    Frog toxin used at retreat where Jarrad Antonovich died caused woman to faint and soil herself, inquest hears

  • Jarrad Antonovich, right, whose death occurred during a six-day northern rivers retreat after he endured a prolonged reaction to a ‘kambo’ ritual

    Inquest hears claim spiritual leaders conspired to mislead police about Jarrad Antonovich’s death after ‘kambo’ ritual

February 2024

  • Natasha Lechner, who died at the age of 39 in a ‘kambo’ ceremony in Mullumbimby.

    Natasha Lechner inquest: ‘kambo’ proponents underestimate its ‘clear and identified risks’ , NSW coroner says

  • Soulore ‘Lore’ Solaris, the spiritual leader of the festival where Jarrad Antonovich died after drinking ayahuasca and partaking in a ‘kambo’ ritual

    New witnesses offer fresh information into ‘kambo’ death at northern NSW spiritual retreat

  • ayahuasca

    Participants at retreat where man died after ayahuasca ceremony allegedly told not to talk, NSW inquest hears

  • Jarrad Antonovich, who died while at a retreat in the northern rivers of NSW

    ‘Elder’ at spiritual retreat told not to send man affected by frog toxin to hospital, NSW inquest hears

January 2024

  • Screengrab of Giselle Boxer against a dark blue background talking to someone off camera

    Doctors complain to BBC over Dragons’ Den contestant’s claim ‘to have cured ME’

  • Agate geode macro Artistic macro of an agate geode

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze – podcast

December 2023

  • Martha Gill

    King Charles has appointed a homeopath. Why do the elite put their faith in snake oil?

    Martha Gill
  • King Charles

    King Charles criticised for appointing pro-homeopathy doctor

October 2023

  • Lou Van Stone performs a sound healing journey at the Mind Body and Spirt festival in Sydney

    Gratitude zones and ‘ignited water’: a day at the Mind Body Spirit festival

    At the gathering in Sydney, wellness sits alongside the spiritual, distrust of the establishment alongside commerce

September 2023

  • Kellie Poole

    Coroner ‘concerned’ over lack of cold water immersion regulation after woman’s death

  • Woman takes daily vitamins with water

    Full Story
    The big Australian companies cashing in on healthcare – Full Story podcast

August 2023

  • An orange container with vitamins

    Woolworths’ free naturopath consultations raise concerns among peak health bodies

    Exclusive: experts fear the cost-of-living crisis is forcing people to forgo evidence-based healthcare

June 2023

  • Aaron Rodgers appeared at the conference in Denver on Wednesday

    ‘Ayahuasca: 48 touchdowns, MVP’: Rodgers says psychedelics helped NFL career

  • A leaf frog is stretched out and prodded to extract the kambo

    ‘Western arrogance’: how the wellness movement co-opted an Amazon frog toxin with deadly effects

May 2023

  • Composite of Jarrad Antonovich and Natasha Lechner

    Full Story
    The deaths shining a light on ritual poison therapies – Full Story podcast

    Joe Hinchliffe speaks to Jane Lee about two deaths involving a frog toxin called kambo
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