Kambo Treatments

At Dreamglade we also offer ‘Kambo’ treatments for those that wish to go deeper with their healing process during their stay with us.

Following the advice of our resident curanderos, Kambo treatments are not administered if the person is partaking in a medicinal plant ‘dieta’ as the energies involved can clash somewhat. However, once we have ‘closed’ the said ‘dieta’ our guests are free to receive kambo and we usually start with just 2-3 ‘points’ as a beginner dose, most often first thing in the morning on an empty stomach, after an Ayahausca ceremony.

‘Kambo’ or ‘Sapo’, as it also known, is the venomous secretion of Phyllomedusa bicolor (the giant leaf or monkey frog), a bright green tree frog native to the Amazon basin. The secretion of the Kambo frog has been used as a medicine amongst the Upper Amazonian peoples for millennia.

We obtain fresh Kambo ‘sticks’ directly from the ‘Matses’ tribe, famous throughout the region as master practitioners of this very powerful medicine.

The frog venom contains many peptides that are active in the human body, including phyllocaerulein, phyllomedusin, phyllokinin, sauvagine, dermaseptins, adenoregulin, deltorphin, and dermorphin.

Numerous medical studies have found that there are profound health benefits from this ‘organic cocktail’ such as – stimulates gut flow and stomach acid secretion, lowers blood

pressure, stimulates the adrenals and dopamine release, fights microbes (bacterial infections) and may even combat cancer. It also affects the activity of important neurotransmitters and compounds (adenosine, adrenaline and serotonin) and can significantly relieve pain and usually induces a state of long-lasting euphoria.