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.

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.

Is Kambo dangerous?

Read more about Kambo sticks here. If you have an eating disorder, you will likely have to take extra precautions before and after your kambo ceremony, and you may even not be able to take kambo at all. Knowing your limitations is an important aspect of safe psychedelic therapy, so if you are unsure whether kambo is right for you, you should discuss the medicine with a psychedelic therapist.

Day of the treatment

As the Kambo draws toxins into the stomach, the water will act as the vehicle to carry it out and facilitate the process of purification through purging. It can be mildly uncomfortable for individuals to drink as much water as we do doing during a Kambo process, but it is essential.

[…] 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.