How to Prepare for Your Kambo Experience at Canyon Gate Wellness Studios

Preparing for your Kambo experience is essential to ensure you receive the full benefits and have a safe, effective session. Here are some guidelines to help you get ready:

24 Hours Before Your Session

• • • Diet: Eat clean, fresh fruits, vegetables, and light proteins. Avoid pork, red meat, heavy foods, processed foods, and fast foods. Refrain from consuming alcohol.
    • Last Meal: Ensure your last meal is no later than 7 PM the evening before your ceremony.

The Morning of Your Session

• • • Fasting: Arrive fasted. Do not consume any food, coffee, or tea. You may sip water.
    • Hydration: Bring a water vessel to stay hydrated.

What to Bring

• • • Clothing: Wear comfortable clothing and bring a tank top or t-shirt.
    • Hair Tie: If you have long hair, bring a hair tie to keep it out of the way during the session.
    • Extra Clothing: Pack extra clothing and underwear as a backup.
    • Personal Care: Try to use the restroom before arriving.

After the Session

• • • Hydration and Recovery: Bring electrolytes or coconut water to rehydrate and replenish your body after the session.

At Canyon Gate Wellness Studios, we are committed to providing a safe, supportive environment for your Kambo experience. Our experienced practitioners will guide you through every step, ensuring you receive the maximum benefits from this powerful healing ritual. Visit cgwstudios.com for more information and to schedule your session.

Kambo

• Kambo or Sapo is a healing ritual used mainly in South America. Its named after the poisonous secretions of the giant monkey frog.
• Indigenous people have used Kambo for centuries to heal and cleans the body by strengthening its natural defenses and warding off bad luck. Its increases stamina and hunting skills.
• Considered the vaccine of the jungle, this potent medicine increases our immune systems.
• Over 100+ peptides having a wide range of functions known to have incredible benefits for the body and mind (see last page for some of the peptides and their benefits)
• Shamans and naturopathic practitioners still use it for cleansing the body of toxins as well as treating numerous health conditions.
• Clears out Panema (heavy dense negative energy that’s accumulated over time)

Kambo helps with a with a range of health conditions including:

• • addictions
  • Alzeimers
  • cancer
  • chronic pain
  • depression
  • diabetes
  • hepatitis
  • HIV and AIDS
  • infections
  • infertility
  • rheumatism
  • vascular conditions

The process

• After fasting for 10-12 hours, the first part of the process is to drink about a liter of water. This helps to absorb and purge out the toxins.
• Next, a practitioner uses a small stick to create a number of small burns on the skin known as gates. Usually 4-9 gates are used to apply the medicine.
• Traditionally, Kambo is administered to the shoulder, ankle, wrists, chakras and energy points throughout the body.
• From the gates, the Kambo enters into the lymphatic system and bloodstream, where it races around the body scanning for problems. This results in some immediate discomfort with flu like symptoms including vomiting, diarehea, sweating, chills.
• Other effects are: dizziness, heart palpitations, lump in throat (like swallowing a frog), swelling of face.
• Symptoms can range in severity. Typically lasts from 15-30 minutes

Are there any risks?

Along with these intense and sometimes unpleasant effects that are considered a noral part of the experience/ritual, Kambo has a few contraindications.

It is best to avoid Kambo if you have:

• history of stroke or brain hemorrhage
• aneurism
• cardiovascular condtions
• blood clots
• low blood pressure
• epilepsy
• addisons disease
• pregnant or breastfeeding
• mental health conditions such as anxiety disorders and psychosis, bi-polar

Peptides

THE FOLLOWING TEXT IS A SUMMARY OF RESEARCH CARRIED OUT BY PHARMACIST ROSA SANCHIS.

Phyllomedusin: such as tachykinins (which also act as neuropeptides) – produce contraction at the smooth muscle level and increase secretions of the entire gastrointestinal tract such as the salivary glands, stomach, small and large intestine, pancreas and gallbladder. These are the main parts responsible for the deep purge produced by the administration of Kambo.

Phyllokinin and Phyllomedusins: both are potent vasodilators, increasing the permeability of the blood-brain barrier both of their own access as well as for that of other active peptides. Within this family are the medusins, which also have antimicrobial and antifungal properties.

Caeruliens and Sauvagines: They are peptides with chains of 40 amino acids with myotropic properties on the smooth muscles, producing a contraction of the colon and urinary bladder. They produce a drop in blood pressure accompanied by tachycardia. They stimulate the adrenal cortex and pituitary gland, contributing to greater sensory perception and increased resistance. Both peptides possess a great analgesic power, contributing to the increase of physical strength, the capacity to confront physical pain, stress, disease and diminish the symptoms of fatigue. In the medical field this family of peptides contributes to the improved digestion and has analgesic properties against pain in renal colic, pain due to peripheral vascular insufficiency and tumor pain.

Dermorphin and deltorphin: These are small peptides composed of 7 amino acids. They are selective agonists of the opiate delta receptors, 4000 times more potent than morphine and 40 times more than the endogenous endorphins.

Adenoregulins: discovered in the 90s by John Daly’s team at the National Institute of Health in the United States. Adenoregulin works on the human body through the adenosine receptors, a fundamental component throughout all human cellular fuel. These receptors may offer a target for the treatment of depression, stroke and cognitive loss diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease and also Parkinson’s.

Dermaseptins: including adenoregulins (with 33 amino acids), plasticins and philloseptins form part of a family of a broad spectrum of antimicrobial peptides involved in the defence of frogs’ bare skin against microbial invasion. These are the first vertebrate peptides that show lethal effects against filamentous fungi responsible for severe opportunistic infections which accompany immunodeficiency syndrome and the use of immunosuppressive agents.
They also show lethal effects against a broad spectrum of bacteria both large+ and large-, fungi, yeasts and protozoa. Several years of research carried out at the University of Paris have shown that peptides Dermaseptin B2 and B3 are effective in killing certain types of cancer cells. Research at Queens University in Belfast recently won a prestigious award for his groundbreaking work with cancer and Kambo. Its action mechanism is produced by inhibiting the angiogenesis of tumor cells, with selective cytotoxicity for these cells.

Bradykinins: such as phyllokinins and trytophilins. They are peptides with structure and properties similar to human bradykinin. they are important sources of scientific study as they are hypotensive and due to producing vasodilation, contraction of the non-vascular smooth
muscle, increase vascular permeability, also related to the mechanism of inflammatory pain.

Bombesins: these peptides stimulate the secretion of hydrochloric acid by acting on the G cells of the stomach, regardless of the pH medium. They also increase pancreatic secretion, intestinal myoelectric activity and smooth muscle contractility.

Ceruleans: stimulate gastric bile and pancreatic secretions, and certain smooth muscles. They could be used in the paralytic ileus and as a diagnostic medium in pancreatic dysfunction.

Tryptophilins: are neuropeptides consisting of 4 to 14 amino acids, which are opening up new perspectives on how the human brain works. These biopeptides have aroused a great deal of scientific interest and many of them have been successfully synthesized in the
laboratory and patented. But so far, none of these molecules have been used in clinical practice. Research on the components of Kambo continues to evolve to find clinical applications in the world of medicine and pharmacology, and in the study of new action