The text in the image talks about bufo which is entirely different from kambo.

Kambo is practiced by Panoan-speaking peoples (which includes the Huni Kuin, aka Kashinawa, where I was staying).
There is a huge cultural overlap with ayahuasca.

I heard it referred to as "vacina de sapo" (frog vaccine), but Kambo, and its variations (Kãpũ, Kampun, Kambô...) is more common.

The 30 minutes or so after the application of Kambo 🐸 are spent sitting, waiting for the medicine to kick.

You don't get any visions or altered states of consciousness with Kambo, but you get a full and deep body cleansing.

After a little while, you start purging (vomiting) the water.

The skin is burnt using a small wooden stick. Then, the dried frog secretions are scraped with a blunt knife and applied on the burnt skin. Water helps the secretions to dissolve and enter the body.

It doesn't really hurt, but it's uncomfortable.

The more applications, the stronger the effect.

Before a Kambo 🐸 ceremony, the first thing is to drink water 💧. Plenty of it. Between 1 and 2 litres.

Water can be replaced by manioc juice obtained from boiling the roots. It's a thick liquid, and is tasteless. It is taken on an empty stomach, that's why Kambo ceremonies take place in the morning.

My first reaction was disapointment: where are the frogs?

Typically during a Kambo ceremony, you don't see the frogs. Their secretions have already been extracted and are stored dried on a piece of wood.

So here is what the frog looks like (from Wikipedia): Phyllomedusa bicolor, bicolor tree-frog.

Then She Is a Shaman, a beautiful documentary about a Peruvian female shaman who works with #ayahuasca, it offers a raw, non idealised image of her everyday life in the jungle.

aeon.co/videos/for-a...

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Thank you 💜

I've noticed we came a long way since that time. I listened to this series of podcasts from France Culture (I'm a French speaker), which comes from a radio programme from the 60's:
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Some of the things they say about psychedelics is now completely outdated.

I'm planning to go with a friend.
I hope that'll inspire me to read Misérable Miracle and Connaissance par les gouffres.

One last photo to end this thread on San Pedro.

It is a San Pedro cactus intertwined with a Brugmansia (Angel's trumpet), which is closely related to Datura, another psychoactive plant. Although there, it was purely an ornamental plant.

#sanPedro #datura #plantMedicine #entheogens #psychedelics

Another pot of boiling San Pedro! This one from Ecuador.
Unlike the one prepared with fresh cactus that I shared earlier, this one is made from dried powder.

#sanPedro #huachuma #plantMedicine #entheogens #psychedelics