What is Kambo you ask? Kambo is the venomous secretion of Phyllomedusa bicolor (the giant leaf or monkey frog), a bright green tree frog native to the Amazon basin. It can be found in the rainforest regions of Brazil, Peru, southeastern Colombia, and parts of Venezuela, Bolivia, and the Guianas. In many regions outside Brazil, both the frog and its secretion are known as sapo (or ‘toad’).

The secretion of the Kambo frog has been used by the Amazon natives as a medicine for generations and each tribe has developed their own traditions, and legends around the discovery and use of Kambo. It contains a powerful combination of peptides, neuropeptides and biopeptides that perform very specific and positive functions in the human body.

As previously stated there is no official training to be a Kambo Practitioner but I chose to go under the direction of the Rainforest Healing center which actually was the first place that exposed me to Kambo. Like many tropical medicines gaining popularity beyond their original landscape, kambo is becoming known around the world for its healing properties. This growing popularity also leads to ambiguity for people seeking trained, responsible and trustworthy administrators of this medicine. Rainforest Healing Center’s staff have direct training from the Matsés people of the Peruvian and Brazilian amazon region.

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