About Kambo

What is Kambo?

Kambo is a non-phsychoactive Earth technology that comes from the secretions of the Amazonian Giant Monkey Tree Frog, (Phyllomedusa bicolor).

It is used ritually through Indigenous traditions to cleanse, purify, and release, allowing us to call forth more clarity, strength, and vitality in our lives.

Kambo may help relieve your physical and energetic body of dense energy, disease, addiction and trauma. It cleanses and polishes your body and soul allowing you to reclaim your life force energy.

Kambo has the ability to increase your awareness and connection to your true self and intuition; it also provides you more energy, confidence, clarity, and vision so that you may see and express your divinity, creativity, and purpose.

What to expect when receiving Kambo

Kambo secretion is dried upon a stick for storage until use. It is rehydrated with pure water when given. Kambo is administered by a light burn to the skin followed by dermal administration of the secretion. It is administered through the skin because it is said to be dangerous to consume it and bring it into the digestive tract. Intradermally, it disperses through the lymph, plasma and endocrine system and disperses it through all of the tissues very quickly.

The burn is administered with a small stick that is less than half the thickness of a pencil. Dosage of Kambo is based upon the number of dots and one dot is placed upon each individual burn. A normal starting dose is 3-5 dots and this is adjusted accordingly to experience and condition. The dots can be applied over particular joints, muscles, areas of pain, internal organs or dermal issues.

Upon receiving the Kambo, one typically will experience an increase in temperature, heart rate and blood pressure. One may hear their heartbeat. Nausea sets in within a few minutes and typically one has a purge within 15-30 minutes. There will be a bucket available for this. Some people do not have an emetic (vomiting) purge with Kambo and cleanse through a bowel movement instead. Some people sweat profusely from Kambo and then are cold after the experience. It is good to be prepared for this with a blanket especially if you're prone to get cold easily.

Sometimes people have an anaphylactic swelling response from Kambo typically around the mouth and eyes. This response varies from person to person and usually lasts an hour or two. Occasionally it may last into the next day or two before completely clearing but this is relatively rare.

It does happen at times that people faint from Kambo for a few moments. Because of this I ask that everyone is careful in the way they are seated and what is behind them. I ask that people receiving Kambo accept assistance in walking to and from the bathroom.

Kambo Benefits

Kambo is a very powerful earth allie that is traditionally shared with hunters in order to make them more effective. It is also known as the vaccine of the jungle.

Kambo holds many benefits for the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies. In a kambo experience there are many parts of our being effected all at once. As the physical body begins to purge and release we are actually able to see toxins leave the body and often times clients feel a strong release and reset has taken place after a kambo session. Many people come to sit with kambo because they want to clean or heal aspects of their body, others come with the intention of moving emotions or traumas that may be stuck. Both of these things can take place and regardless of your reasoning this medicine has a powerful healing effect on many levels.

Kambo contains neuro and bio peptides that heal on many levels and is also scientifically and medically backed up for it's potentials. Kambo has been used to help people clear themselves from drugs and pharmaceuticals as well. It has the ability to help one overcome the hold of addiction and detox the body.

It is said that Kambo is the strongest natural vaccine in the entire world and boosts the immune system by 300%. It is an incredibly powerful antibiotic, anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal & anti-microbial. It also has a powerful way of strengthening the nervous system which can support in individual in being less prone to stress or anxiety. When we have a strong nervous system we are also able to take on life more centered and also begin a powerful journey of actually lifting our own frequency and vibration into higher states of consciousness.

The science of Kambo

There are currently over 70 patents worldwide on peptides that have been found in Kambo. Some of the peptides found so far are as follows:

Phyllocaerulein – A natural painkiller that modifies satiety and sedation, reduces blood pressure and affects thermoregulation.

Phyllokinin – This neuropeptide causes a long lasting reduction in blood pressure.

Dermorphin – In the Sauvagine family of peptides, Dermorphin has an opiate like effect on mu-opioid receptors, has potent pain-killing properties and has been found to be 30-40 times stronger than morphine.

Dermaseptin – has powerful antimicrobial activity against bacteria, yeast, fungi, protozoa, and enveloped viruses that often cause severe opportunistic infections, particularly those accompanying use of immunosuppressive agents.

Dermaseptin B2/Adenoregulin – A 33 amino acid peptide that works with the adenosine receptor. This antimicrobial peptide has been show to be very effective in destroying cancer cells.

Deltorphin – Deltorphin is a potent painkiller and has a higher affinity and selectivity for delta-opiod binding sites than any other natural compound yet known.

Phyllomedusin – A neuropeptide that is a powerful Vasodilator and has a strong effect on tear ducts, salivary glands, intestines and bowels. This peptide contributes to the purging usually experienced when taking Kambo.

Tryptophyllins – This peptide has been found to be highly potent against the yeast candida albicans, and is being researched for cardiovascular, anti-inflammatory and anticancer therapy.

Kambo Contraindications

The International Association of Kambo Practitioners declares that Kambo is contraindicated for people who;

• Have serious heart problems
• Are on medication for low blood pressure
• Have had a stroke
• Have had a brain hemorrhage
• Have had aneurisms or blood clots
• Lack the mental capacity to make the decision to take Kambo
• Have serious mental health problems (excluding depression, PTSD and anxiety)
• Are undergoing chemotherapy, radiotherapy or for 4 weeks afterwards.
• Take immune-suppressants for organ transplant
• Have Addison's Disease
• Have current or severe epilepsy
• Are recovering from a major surgical procedure
• Are pregnant or breastfeeding a child under 6 months old

About Hápe

We will also have the opportunity to work with Hápe, tobacco snuff, from the Amazon. This mapacho medicine is a protective spirit for the ceremony. Tobacco clears the mind, opens our prayers and translates for the spirits. The nicotine in the hápe also is a bronchodilator, increasing circulation and assisting the release of mucous.

There are many wonderful articles that can introduce you to the efficacy and clinical research of Kambo at the International association of Kambo Practitioners website, IAKP.org.

Find Third Wave’s “Ultimate Guide to Kambo” here https://thethirdwave.co/psychedelics/kambo/