Because of this, you should only use kambo if you feel solid in your recovery and recognize the risks of slipping back into your binging and purging behavior. But keep in mind that most practitioners will not share your personal information with others, and you can also find a practitioner who is not in your social circle. If you live in the San Francisco Bay area, the staff at Psychedelic Times can help you find a kambo practitioner with experience working with people with eating disorders. Another reason that yoga and kambo are often paired is that they both offer a way to connect with the present moment and find a sense of inner peace.
They should take your wellbeing as a priority, and be honest with you about the risks and how they will work to minimize them. The first was in 2008, when a 52-year-old Brazilian man died at a private kambo ceremony. He had taken kambo several times before over the course of the previous few months, to treat a health condition. Read more about Sananga here. This time, he went to the bathroom unobserved, and was later found not breathing on the floor, and could not be resuscitated. Also known as sapo, it is the poisonous secretion of a tree frog that, when applied to burns on the skin, induces an intense experience involving nausea, dizziness, pain, and disorientation.
Treatments
[…] Activities such as snowboarding, horseback riding, or even prescription drugs have higher rates of injury and death then kambo does. Check that your practitioner will be doing a test point on you, will limit your water consumption following the application of kambo, and will monitor you throughout the ceremony. Have a high standard while researching facilitators – there are many out there, and if a practitioner does not fulfil all of these requirements then they don’t deserve to be working with the medicine.
Day of the treatment
One other great thing about this method is sometimes there isn’t any nausea at all. I’ve experienced this many times myself, even to the point where I felt like not enough Kambo was applied. On these occasions, I’ve gone ahead and drunk the water anyway, purged, and realised that the bile was there all along. This is difficult to define in words but the best way it can be described is that you really “feel” the presence of the frog when you take Kambo dry.
What does Kambo feel like?
This information will be coordinated prior to the day of ceremony. If you decide not to do your Kambo ceremony after you have already paid, you will receive a refund in full. Please read and complete the liability waiver prior to your ceremony. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out before the day of your scheduled ceremony. The entry points will heal and fade with time but depending on your skin color and type you may always have small visible scars. Kambo Care uses a special blazing technique on clients that will limit scarring. Please do not drink distilled water (leeches minerals from the system) or more than the suggested amount of water day of session.