Kilkeg is a potent poison employed by sorcerer and shaman of Visayan ancestry to harm and kill their intended victims. The poison's efficacy was categorized as fatal, prolong and curable.
Fatal poison took effect after five minutes of ingestion and if not remedied for an hour the victim will die.
Prolonging poison made the victim to suffer stomach ailments that will last for many months and if not cured will lead to wasting of his body and then death. But this ailment is curable. Curable kilkeg cause instantaneous pain in the stomach but last only for few hours. It was not formulated for killing but only to make the victim suffer pain.
The formula were varied. One common recipe is chicken egg cooked with small amount of water and were boiled until the water had dried up. It will be boiled up to seven times in the same procedure stated. Then the yolk will be dried, powdered and mixed with scrapping from the dust of young bamboo pole coverings.
The antidote for the poison is the roots of a spiny shrubs called Roma that grows at the sandy beach.
The scientific name for this wooded shrub is acacia nilotica. It is also called babul. the roots will be crushed and its concoction will be consumed together with virgin coconut oil.
From the oral account of Henry Toribio of Tablas Island, Romblon, Philippines
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