‘It’s not good’: NSW inquest hears of woman’s last words during ‘Kambo’ frog toxin ritual

A Phyllomedusa bicolor, also known as giant monkey frog – the mucus it secretes was used in a ‘Kambo’ ritual in which Natasha Lechner died in 2019. Photograph: John Sullivan/Alamy

A self-described spiritual teacher and entrepreneur who applied the toxins of an Amazonian tree frog to burns in the skin of a New South Wales woman moments before she died did not know to call 000 in the case of emergencies, a coroner has heard.

Natasha Lechner died at the age of 39 in a shamanic “Kambo” ritual in Mullumbimby that went tragically wrong in 2019.