Healing with Kambo

Pneuma Center
Apr 2
3 min read

Kambo is a profoundly powerful medicine with the potential to affect many aspects of our life on the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual planes of existence.

Physical Healing

Lowered blood pressure - many of the peptides have vasodilatory effects, meaning that they widen blood vessels. This allows more room for blood to flow and so contributes to lower blood pressure. Indeed, these are what cause some of the light-headedness and dizziness that can be felt when taking Kambo.

Pain relief - there are analgesic effects of Kambo, as well as anti-inflammatory properties that can reduce the inflammation associated with some type of pain, as well as other compounds that have some opioid-like effects, and that can also cross the blood-brain barrier, causing pain blocking effects within the brain itself.

Anti-cancer properties - an indirect result of the action of some compounds found in Kambo lead to reduced blood vessel growth, which is a property used in a number of treatments that can help to restrict tumor growth in cancers with targeted delivery.

Heart protective properties - in addition, this widening of blood vessels can increase blood flow to the heart. Along with some of the other effects on smooth muscle, Kambo has the potential to aid heart health.

Anti-microbial properties - many of the compounds have effects to fight against fungal and bacterial infections. Actually, this is one of the reasons why the frog from which Kambo is harvested secretes this substance in the first place - to help protect its skin from fungal and bacterial infection, which are a particular menace to amphibians.

Increased strength and physical endurance - those of us that enjoy the call of the gym, as well as the call of Kambo can often attest that some of our best sessions come in the days after a Kambo ceremony. The weights feel a little lighter and the grind a little easier.

Encourage fertility - Kambo helps bring our bodies into optimal harmony and balance on a cellular level, creating ideal conditions for conception.

Heightened senses - vision, hearing, smell, touch. Often people report an extra sharpness to the senses days following a Kambo session.

Treatment of malaria and snake bites - a common problem in the jungle, and ones that benefit from the purging of toxins that Kambo provides.

Emotional Healing

Reduced stress - whether it’s the reduction in cortisol, or the sense of connection to self and source from practicing Kambo, stress and problems can seem diminished and much further away after a Kambo session.

Sense of calm - the calm that descends after the purge in Kambo can last a number of days and can be integrated to last much longer. Everything seems quieter, calmer, and more manageable.

Increased compassion and courage - you may find yourself reacting a little differently to things that come up in your life. Empathy and compassion replace annoyance and distaste. Where you shied away, Kambo encourages you to stand up.

Reduced frustration, anger and anxiety - emotions that don’t serve you can be released and lessened. The medicine of Kambo challenges you enough to remind you how strong and capable you are.

Mental Healing

Mental clarity - sometimes it feels like thinking can come easier. There’s less chatter and thoughts whirling around in your brain. You are generally less in your head.

Treatment of addiction - helping to reset certain chemical pathways in the brain that are blocked by addiction. Some of the peptides are opioid-receptor binding, meaning that they bind to the receptors in the brain that opiates normally bind to. Kambo could help those with opiate addiction by helping to normalize the brains hormonal responses without the need for opiate ingestion.

Improved mood and reduced anxiety - possibly from the interactions that lead to reductions in the main stress hormone, cortisol, within the bloodstream.

Spiritual Healing

Removal of negative energies - Kambo removes negative energies known as ‘Panema’ which is an Arawak word used to describe a cloud of dense negative energies that grows over time in your auric field. The Arawak believe this causes depression, laziness, and lethargy. Panema brings bad luck and causes negative things to happen to a person. The purging that’s caused by Kambo is mainly the purging of this negative energy to be transmuted into new renewed energy.

Purify the mind and spirit - Sitting with Kambo will allow you to hit the spiritual reset button. Removing all that is impure and starting anew on your journey.