Following the death of a woman who underwent therapy where poison from a species of frog was applied to her, the president of the College of Psychologists of Durango, Luis Manuel Naranjo, warned about the use of alternative therapies to counteract conditions such as depression and anxiety, which include toxic substances, and which are quackery.
“It is regrettable that these practices continue to occur and that the authorities do nothing. We already know that there are places where they practice these things and we know that they obviously do not have the health permits to be able to practice alternative therapies with poisons. I believe that one thing is a traditional alternative therapy: acupuncture, homeopathy, which normally turn out to be harmless, sometimes they even have some placebo effect on the patient and some therapeutic effect. But that is one thing and allowing people to inject themselves with poisons is another thing,” he said.
OPERATION CARRIED OUT
On Monday evening, an operation was carried out in the Villa de Guadalupe neighborhood, in the city of Durango, where a Healers Training course was held, in which a woman was poisoned and lost her life.
It was on Rubén Jaramillo Street, almost on the corner with Tomás Urbina, in the aforementioned human settlement, where shortly before 6:00 p.m. elements of the State Attorney General’s Office arrived at that place, guarded by elements of the National Guard and the Mexican Army.
It would be the house marked with the number 408, where this past weekend the aforementioned course was held, promoted by the Moyocoyani Center, and directed by Jonathan Fernando “N”.
This man is indicated as the alleged person responsible for having applied Kambó, a process in which they burned the body of the victim, Marcela, and where they applied the substance made with toad venom.
The place was surrounded by the authorities, and they placed seals on which one can read “Insured property.”
Source: elsiglodedurango
