Hi Kambo Nation,
I want to share my experience with the burning stick.
First I had BAMBOO stick send to my by Maya. I used it, and had "normal" marks, light color change. I am a white boy with darker shade of white, and no matter what I did it always left the mark. For that reason I started doing it on my legs...
Then I ran out of bamboo, and I just took some random branch from the nature. At first i was very pleased. The branch would burn and have the red very strong and long lasting (don't know the word in english for red after fire...). I would have just to touch the skin, and would have nice burn.
Yet at the same time I started to use some strange desinfectant, blue of color, like violet. I did my burns above the ankle, and sometimes they would get infected, so I would put few drops on the burns.
I started to notice that my skin got colored, but I thought it was going to go away, or it was due to the desinfectatnt. Well it DIDN'T... After few months by now I have many dark, very dark burns on my legs.
I eventually stopped using my favorite stick, and got back to bamboo, and the marks are "ok", I do have to hold a "red" on the skin for 2 quick seconds, I count one, two quickly ( when with the other one I had to just touch the skin).
So don't use the wood that has strong temperature, the marks are like tatoos.
My English is kind of wrong, so if moderator can correct it ti would be appreciated.
Jox