THE SERIOUS DETOX

THE shaman takes a burning stick and uses the embers to delicately burn through a layer of his patient’s skin. He then applies the carefully harvested kambo – a secretion taken from the giant monkey frog – to the new wounds.

This ancient ceremony isn’t taking place in the steamy depths of the Amazon rainforest but in south east Manchester and the focus of the healing ritual isn’t a tribal warrior but Middleton welterweight, Liam