What is Kambo?

Incredibly challenging, potent, and empowering!

Sitting with this medicine is not easy. However, once your purge is complete and you’ve taken time to rest, you are left feeling clear, energized, and ready to do it all over again.

Kambo brings you out of your head, and into your body. It asks us to be fully conscious, fully engaged with the process of being uncomfortable, of facing our fears, our blocks, and our shadow patterns.

Also referred to as “Warrior Medicine”,

Kambo is a sacred, non-psychoactive jungle medicine harvested from the phyllomedusa bicolor (also known as giant waxy tree frog), that has been used by Amazonian tribes for thousands of years. It is a powerful, natural antibiotic that activates our body’s ability to heal itself. It helps draw out toxins from our organs and nervous system, and can even help reset our gut microbiome. It can strengthen the body, reduce inflammation and pain, and heal us on all levels (mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual).

The Matsés tribe harvest the secretions by calling to the frogs after sundown, or early morning before the sun rises. If the frog responds to the call, then someone will climb the tree to gently cut the branch that the frog is sitting on. He will climb down the tree, branch and frog in hand, and they will bring the frog back with them to the village so long as it has not secreted due to a predator, or been recently milked. They tie the frogs up, and irritate them to help them release their secretion. Then, they use a stick or the dull side of a knife to gently scrape the secretions from their legs and backs. Once they have collected what they can, the frog is released back into the jungle. Those frogs will not be harvested from again until they have replenished their protective layer.

Kambo is a purgative, and enters your body through your bloodstream. We create surface level burns, also referred to as “gates”, using either a traditional tamishi vine or Tibetan incense stick, and place the activated kambo over each one. You will begin feeling the effects almost immediately.

What can I expect?

Due to the incredible number of beneficial peptides, you will feel some very intense effects as soon as the secretion enters your bloodstream. These are all totally normal. Kambo is legal, and very safe when administered properly by a trained practitioner.

Effects include, but are not limited to:

  • Increased heart rate

  • Rise in body temperature

  • Constriction in the throat and/or swelling of the face

  • Buzzing, tingling sensations in your hands and head

  • Heart beat/pounding sensation in your head

  • A rise or fall in blood pressure

  • Stomach cramping

As toxins are drawn out, the purge begins, and can last anywhere from 10-45 minutes. This can be a very intense process. Purging can look like vomiting, defecating (a bottom purge), shaking, and an unexpected release of emotions.

Kambo gives you what you need, not what you want.

Benefits of Kambo

Kambo contains bioactive peptides, making it a very potent and healing medicine. Some of those peptides include:

  • Phyllomedusin, which regulates the function of dopamine, serotonin, and other neurotransmitters

  • Deltorphins and dermorphin, stronger than morphine by 39x and 18x, without the same level of respiratory depression, tolerance potential, and withdrawal symptoms

  • Dermaseptins, which are broad spectrum antimicrobials, effective against bacteria, fungi, viruses, and protozoa

  • Dermaseptin B2 inhibits cancer cell growth by more than 90%

  • Phyllomedusin and phyllokinin are potent vasodilators, and increase the permeability of the blood-brain barrier

Physically, Kambo draws out toxins from the body and nervous system. It empowers and strengthens the immune system, removes impurities, clears the skin, regulates blood pressure, and can balance hormones. While it can increase fertility, it can also induce abortion if pregnant. It contains anti-inflammatory properties, which can help alleviate pain and discomfort throughout our being. Thanks to the plethora of peptides, Kambo can also restore the gut microbiome, killing off any harmful bacteria and parasites, while protecting the beneficial strains.

On a mental and spiritual level, Kambo allows us to heal through layers of deep rooted traumas. It can help us overcome the fear of death, and allows us to dissolve any energetic or physical blockages we may be holding on to. It increases compassion, courage, emotional stability, and personal sovereignty. The Matsés use this medicine to clear Panema, which is a build up of negative energy that gathers in our bodies over time. Panema is blamed for bad luck, depression, laziness, irritation, etc., so clearing it is vital. Bringing us back into our bodies, Kambo keeps us grounded and realigns the chakras. It may act as a release of bad thoughts, habits, negative traits, or persistent life problems.

Conditions that can benefit from Kambo:

  • Parkinson’s

  • Vascular problems

  • Hepatitis

  • Diabetes

  • Rheumatism and arthritis

  • Lyme disease & Autoimmune disorders

  • PTSD

  • Trauma

  • Addiction

  • Depression and anxiety

  • Chronic pain and illness

  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)

This is not an extensive list. If there is something specific you would like to clear or begin to heal, please inquire via my mandatory health screening.

After ceremony, it is common to experience:

  • Greater physical strength

  • Increased energy

  • Enhanced focus, clarity, and mental alertness

  • Elevated mood

  • Decreased stress

  • Reduced (or completely dissolved) frustration, anger, and anxiety

These changes will last for varied lengths of time, depending on the person*