After years of serving kambo and analyzing its traditions, practice, and power, I have never seen something transform someone’s life so quickly. Those who usually seek the medicine of kambo are in a state of desperation. Through desperation, there is inspiration to step into a path of freedom through kambo. I have been a firefighter and paramedic for over 14 years and it seems to be a key component in treating PTSD for the first responder community.
From my own personal experience of receiving and serving this medicine, I feel it is important to express the impact kambo can make on a person’s life. There are countless experiences in allopathic medicine that lead to deadends and hopelessness. Frustration led me to the path of kambo and I feel it is paramount to express my knowledge and wisdom of this powerful medicine.
Kambo Recap
Kambo is a phenomenon. It is considered an entheogen, which allows us to step into the subconscious to heal ourselves. Part of the magic in kambo resides in the peptides, which provide a complete cellular recalibration in a matter of minutes. The intelligence of this medicine is about bringing the body into balance.
The Matses are an indigenous group who have used this medicine for thousands of years to assist with malaria, snake bites, infertility, and the removal of “panema.” Their traditional homeland rests between the Javari and Galvez rivers in the Amazon. The tribe coins the term “panema” as stuck energy or even bad luck.
The origin of this medicine comes from a “curandero” or medicine man, who was seeking to save his indigenous people from a plague. The tribal leader was instructed by the medicine of ayahuasca on how to extract the secretion from a giant monkey tree frog and reverse the plague to save his tribal members.
The Matses harvest kambo by picking up the frogs during their feeding time, usually around dawn, and carefully stretch out their bodies in an X position. The secretion is gently collected and dried on small sticks. These sticks are now available to send across the world to be used as healing medicine. The harvesting is gentle and no frogs are harmed in the process of retrieving the medicine. (Though there are various opinions on this matter.)
The medicine at a scientific level carries bio active peptides, which are branch chain amino acids that target specific imbalances at a cellular level. The peptides are natural so the body recognizes them and unlocks the cells to benefit from its medicine.
This is not true for pharmaceutical drugs, which often have to break into cells—generally leaving behind a residue and causing some stress in the body. Kambo is a natural substance that the human body recognizes, so it’s receptive to the medicine with no stress to the cells. Kambo even helps clean out the residue left by drugs.
A Deeper Dive on Kambo Science
There are 11 well-known peptides that have been isolated in kambo secretion. It is a blend that is completely unique to frog medicine.
- Phyllocaerulein, a neuropeptide (a special type of peptide that helps neurons communicate in the brain) that reduces blood pressure, modifies satiety (stomach fullness), and manages sedation and thermoregulation. It’s also a potent pain killer.
- Phyllokinin, a peptide that reduces blood pressure in the long-term, and crosses the blood-brain barrier to help take kambo’s benefits to the brain.
- Phyllomedusin, a neuropeptide (unique to kambo) that acts as a powerful vasodilator, widening and relaxing blood vessels, veins, and arteries.
- Dermorphin, a chain that acts on opioid receptors to reduce pain. It is 30-40 times more potent than morphine.
- Deltorphin, another peptide that interacts with opioid receptors, showing higher selectivity for them than any compound known to man. There are 2 Deltorphins in Kambo, adding to its pain-killing properties.
- Dermaseptin, a peptide with potent antimicrobial effects against bacteria, yeast, fungi, protozoa, and even enveloped viruses.
- Adenoregulin, a peptide that has been shown to be very effective in killing cancer cells, effectively turning off their fuel supply.
- Tryptophyllin, a peptide that has been shown to be highly potent against the yeast Candida Albicans.
- Phyllolitorin, [Leu8] Phyllolitorin, Rohdei-Litorin are 3 neuropeptides that stimulate gastric acid secretion and smooth muscle contraction.
Benefits of Kambo for Firefighters
The intelligence of kambo does not access our logical mind; it works on the navigation of the heart. Through this heart-based experience, kambo opens up to the true nature of who we are.
I’ve seen kambo change the firefighter paradigm of operating from an analytical standpoint and being more attuned to the emotional body. Being more connected to emotional intelligence elevates a firefighter’s intuition and mental clarity.
Firefighters are exposed to heavy metals, carcinogens, and chemicals on a daily basis, and kambo helps facilitate the rapid removal of these toxins from the body.
Suicide has become one of the top three ways a firefighter reaches their demise. Kambo allows a firefighter to be connected by clearing emotional debris and removing trauma at a cellular level, and it is a great medicine for overcoming addiction.
Kambo becomes an advocate for breaking down metaphysical walls we create in order to protect ourselves from hurt emotions and keep us closed off to being more open. This opening brings the capacity to mature the mind and heart connection. The heart has around 40,000 neurites, which are neurons separate from the brain. Building a bridge to the mind’s heart connection elevates our intuition and our capacity for our superhuman nature.
Legality and Safety
Kambo is a non-psychoactive medicine legally served in the United States. It is important to work with a practitioner who understands how the medicine operates, how to navigate it, and the teachings that accompany it.
As bizarre as this medicine can seem, it is teaching each individual a lesson: to let go and surrender. Emotional disturbances may arise, so it is vital that a very intuitive practitioner facilitates this process for someone.
There are a few safety concerns in receiving kambo: hyponatremia, esophageal rupture (very rare), and the possibility of relapse when someone is being treated for addiction.
There are other contraindications such as organ failure, history of schizophrenia, history of low blood pressure/ taking low blood pressure medication, and a list of medications that require a distance from receiving kambo treatment. Please do your own extensive research and consult with a healthcare practitioner if you have any questions or concerns about using this medicine.
Kambo has divine intelligence, knowing exactly where to go to start working on the imbalances and bringing the body into harmony as quickly as possible. The biggest takeaway is that kambo is treatment-based, and gaining a relationship with the medicine provides a higher outcome for healing.
Real Life Experiences
As a kambo practitioner, part of the process of training is healing yourself first. Kambo was able to heal my nervous system, and biological imbalances from traumatic brain injury. After I continued my path with kambo, it opened me up to my emotional wounds that required healing as well.
As a kambo practitioner, I have watched people transform their lives and reclaim their inner power through the magic of kambo. I have watched kambo reverse HIV, herpes, Lyme disease, severe depression, and more. I have seen kambo remove tapeworms, parasites, and fungal overgrowth in the body.
One issue in particular that I have witnessed within the firefighter community was vaccination injury. Many doctors will not dare admit the damage that the vaccinations have caused, and firefighters who have had no previous symptoms or illness have had various symptoms related to post-vaccination. I have watched kambo balance these symptoms related to vaccination injury and give people their lives back.
The main focus has been using kambo as an adjunct to treating PTSD. Kambo is a fascinating medicine—I’m so impressed with how it can resolve unprocessed trauma by having the conscious awareness of what lies dormant and then having a visceral release from the body. This release of something leaving the body is the body’s communication to the brain that whatever was inside is now gone.
Final Thoughts
As humans, we have been programmed to trust external sources to heal. Kambo allows us to do our own healing and bring our lives into balance in a beautiful, organic way. This medicine is also challenging and will open the gateway to the warrior spirit within. That spirit becomes our guiding force for change and making better choices. If you feel called to this medicine, a good start to looking around your area is through kambointernational.com. Here, you’ll find practitioners from around the world. If you’re curious, answer the call and see what you can find.
