Kambo reveals our innate ability to shed what no longer serves us on the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels. By letting go of the “toxins” that hinder us, we are able to step into our full, true nature and thrive.
Many people are using Kambo to assist with a wide variety of ailments, including:
- Depression and Anxiety
- Unhealthy Habits/Addiction
- Chronic Pain
- GI Imbalance/Gut Dysbiosis
- Fertility Problems
- Lyme Disease
- Joint issues/ Arthritis
- Immune System Disorders including HIV
- High Blood Pressure
- Prostate Cancer
- Heavy Metal Toxicity
- PTSD and Trauma Release
- Difficulty Making Big Life Decisions
- …so much more
What is Kambo?
Kambo is one of several names used to refer to the Giant Monkey Tree Frog (Phyllomedusa bicolor), an Amazonian frog that secretes a special chemical mixture on its body to protect itself from predators. This secretion has been used as a traditional folk remedy to heal a broad spectrum of maladies like infections, snake bites, and malaria. Tribe members also use it to give them strength and stamina while hunting and to remove “panema” (bad luck, irritation, negative energy, laziness). Kambo is one of the strongest natural anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antibiotic and pain-relieving substances found in the world and one of the strongest, natural ways to strengthen the immune system.
What happens during a Kambo Treatment?
The entire process is actually quite short, but intense. Kambo is known as “ordeal medicine”.
After drinking up to two liters of water, small “gates” are made on your skin with a burning incense stick to remove the top layer (similar to a blister, there is no blood). Traditional use has these gates on your arm or ankle and usually 3-4 gates are plenty for the first time.
The Kambo is mixed into a paste and placed on the gates where it is quickly absorbed into the lymphatic system. Most people will then experience an increase and then a decrease in blood pressure and temperature changes.
The Kambo peptides goes through the body coaxing out deeply held toxins causing most people to purge either from the stomach, by defecating, urinating, sweating, shaking and/or emoting. This process, while feeling very physical, is often experienced as an emotional, mental, and spiritual cleanse as well.
The process typically takes 20-40 minutes and then most people rest in what is usually a deeply peaceful and calm state for as long as needed.
Kambo is non-hallucinogenic but the process is a “non-ordinary” state that often brings about clarity, focus, and sometimes even “ah-ha” insights or vision of the path ahead. Immediately afterwards people report feeling calm, a sense of lightness and renewal, deeply cleansed, softened, and peaceful.
Tea with honey and some fruit are offered after your rest and most people are fully recovered and ready to drive home within 2 hours.
The remainder of your day should offer lots of room for rest and integration. Within 24-48 hours most people feel a sense of vigor and the full benefits of the Kambo experience.
It is recommended to sit 3 times with Kambo in a lunar cycle to fully benefit, body, mind and spirit and get the deepest cleanse.
Your facilitator, Troi DeLuz, has been serving Kambo since 2017. They trained through the International Association of Kambo Practitioners and received ongoing guidance from Peter Gorman and other seasoned pracitioenrs. Due to their medical background, Troi quickly became a resource to other practitioners for their knowledge of pharmaceuticals, contraindications, and mental health conditions — particularly in relation to safety, discernment, and appropriate preparation within medicine spaces.
Troi brings a lifetime of multidisciplinary healing arts training to this work, becoming a Reiki Master Teacher in 2007, a Registered Nurse in 2012, and later pursuing additional certifications and studies in Lomi Lomi, Hypnotherapy, and Spiritual Response Technique. Their approach is deeply rooted in being a bridge between trauama-informed, evidence-based practice and the prudent, ethical application of intuitive and energetic healing arts.
Kambo is not appropriate for everyone. A detailed health intake questionnaire is required prior to booking in order to assess safety, contraindications, and readiness for the work. Preparation steps will also be discussed in advance to help support a safe and meaningful experience.
Please contact Troi through the website so that we can discuss your goals, answer questions, and determine whether this work feels aligned for you.
Sessions are offered on a $150–300 sliding scale per session, or $375–900 for a series of three sessions completed in close succession. This pricing structure is rooted in principles of mutual aid, accessibility, and economic justice.
The lower end of the scale is not intended for those simply looking to “save money.” It exists to help make this work accessible to people with significantly fewer financial resources.
If you own a home or reliable vehicle, receive paid time off, have discretionary income after bills are paid, regularly travel, dine out, attend festivals or events, contribute to retirement or investment accounts, or otherwise have financial cushioning and choice in your life, you likely belong in the middle to upper end of the scale.
Paying at the higher end helps sustain this work while also directly supporting greater access for community members with fewer resources. No proof of income is required. You are trusted to honestly assess your level of access to stability, resources, and financial flexibility when choosing your rate.
You will know when the froggy calls! Viva Kambo!
Please use the MEET AND GREET button on the right side of the screen to schedule a call with Troi.
The Science of KambĂ´.
The scientific name of the Giant Monkey Tree Frog is Phyllomedusa bicolor, meaning “two-colored leaf guardian”.
Italian scientist and Nobel prize nominee, Vittorio Erspamer of the University of Rome was the first person to analyze Kambo in a laboratory. In 1986, he wrote that Kambo contained a “fantastic chemical cocktail with potential medical applications, unequaled by any other amphibian”. The chemicals that he referred to are peptides – short chain amino acids that make up proteins in our body. Pharmaceutical companies are working to study, synthesize, and profit from the unique peptides naturally found in KambĂ´. There are currently more than 70 KambĂ´ patents pending, mostly in the United States.
Some peptides specifically affect brain activity and neuronal communication throughout the body. These special peptides are called neuropeptides. Examples of neuropeptides we naturally make in our bodies are endorphins (pain reduction and pleasure response hormones) , oxytocin (the “bonding” hormone) and insulin (blood sugar regulation).
Other peptides found in kambo are bioactive, composed of a specific chain of amino acids which perform a function that the body recognizes as beneficial. The body opens to kambo at a cellular level, allowing it to clean out deposits left in the cells by foreign substances with no stress to the cells. This combination of peptides is a unique key that unlocks the body, allowing kambo cross the blood-brain barrier rather than being filtered out by the body’s defense system. This makes kambo an extremely powerful way to reach and treat disease.
Kambo peptides include:
Dermorphin – Dermorphin has an opiate like effect on mu-opioid receptors, making it a very potent painkiller with effects 30-40 times stronger than morphine.
Deltorphin – Deltorphin is also a powerful painkiller and delta opioid agonist.
Phyllomedusin – A neuropeptide that has a powerful effect on intestines and bowels, contributing to the purging often experienced when taking kambo.
Phyllokinin – This neuropeptide can cause a long lasting reduction in blood pressure.
Phyllocaerulein – Another potent painkiller that reduces blood pressure and affects thermoregulation.
Adenoregulin – A 33 amino acid peptide that works with the adenosine receptor. This antibiotic peptide can reduce the harmful effects of bacteria, fungi, and protozoa, including cancer cells.
Dermaseptin – Shows powerful antimicrobial activity against bacteria, yeast, fungi, protozoa, and enveloped viruses that often cause severe opportunistic infections.
Tryptophyllins – Highly potent against the yeast candida, may have potential in cardiovascular, inflammatory, and anticancer therapy.
Peptides Found in Phyllomedusa Frogs (2010)
Deltorphin Transport Across Blood-Brain Barrier (1997)
Dermaseptine (Antiviral Peptide?)
The Spirit of KambĂ´.
The most prevalent legend regarding the origins of Kambo comes from the Kaxinawa tribe in Brazil.
The people of the forest had fallen ill and their shaman, a man known as Kampum, took sacred plant medicine to enter a trance and communicate with the spirits of the forest. He was contacted by a feminine spirit who presented him with a frog and taught him how to use its medicine to heal his village. When Kampum came to he brought this frog medicine to his people and was able to cure them. When Kampum passed years later his spirit passed into the the spirit of the frog, which became known as kambĂ´.
For thousands of years the practice of kambo stayed in the forest, it was not until the 1990s that half-indigenous rubber tappers known as the Cobocla people learned the practice from the natives and began to take it to cities in Brazil. From there use of KambĂ´ has slowly spread all over the world, gaining massive momentum in the past ten years. There is a shift occurring, more and more people are seeking alternative paths to healing and looking for deeper connection with themselves and the world around them. Kambo is an important part of this shift.