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 2 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 you are allowed to rest in what is usually a deeply peaceful and calm state for as long as you need.
Kambo is non-hallucinogenic but the process 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, is delighted to speak with you in person for any questions. There is a detailed health intake questionnaire to make sure that Kambo is safe for you to use and some preparation steps to undertake.
Please contact Troi through the website to find out more.
Sessions are $200-$150 sliding scale per session or $600-$360 for series of three in a row.
You will know when the froggy calls! Viva Kambo!
The Science of Kambô.
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 Kambô. There are currently more than 70 Kambô 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 Kambô.
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 kambô.
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 Kambô 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.