Please ask me about people that can help you with this.  Especially for your first time it is not recommended to do on yourself.  There are 2 people here that can likely help. 

No matter how I can try to prepare you for this there is no way I can prepare you for this.  Too mind boggling if you do it right.  It should utterly blow away all expectations and leave you baffled by it's power and poignancy.  Although I do it on myself and have for all but my first application, I don't recommend it for others.  Some faint from the severity of the experience. 

The best way to prepare is meditation and yoga.  In fact yoga seems to go hand and hand as it puts your entire body in a state of discomfort and there are some very specific positions that help alleviate.  For me doing Iboga before hand puts much of the body pain into my third eye region in an expression of bliss/rapture.  Meditation is supremely helpful for like I said the second you try and figure out what is going on you lose the teaching of Kambo and it hammers you with it's power.  I could write a book on Kambo +500 pages and that would not even touch on the actual experience.

For instance I will consult with Kambo on Tuesday.  I am more scared than ever.  It only gets more potent the longer you do it if you keep the same dose or up the dose.  A major force to be reckoned with that IMO does more practical spiritual and physical work than any other entheogen.  It is easy to overlook the little mysteries it covets itself to though.  Takes a keen eye of sensitive propensities. 

Blessings

The Katukina are those I would look to as the caretakers of Kambo.  There method is to drink 4-8 liters of a fermented beverage over the course of the day and a half before Kambo.  So on that level I think it is also cellular in nature to get hydrated.  I try to do both.  I regularly consume sun tea out of a 2 liter mason jar with herbs like Yerba Mate', Cacao, Rooibos, Vanilla, Cacao, 500mg-1.5g Iboga stardust, Caapi Leaves or Syrian Rue ground 2-3gr, Ilex Guayusa and sometimes switching it up.  This really helps me before a Kambo application.

Thanks for bringing up that crucial info.

Jox,
Please share your story here if you please.  Would love to know all the details and it is anything but a bore.  Quite exhilarating in fact to here someone treating ailments with Kambo that nothing else has worked on. 

I had thought it was already working to a certain degree.  Feel free to write as much here on it as you wish.  This is not a frequented space and I don't expect or frankly wish it to be, but for those inducted into this Kambo family please elaborate as much as possible.

Blessings

1. How many days before an Iboga flood would you recommend taking Kambo?  You've mentioned doing it the morning of an Iboga flood but that might be a bit dangerous.  Did you ever try?   

*Not so.  I do it the day before only when I the person can't see me before or in other words it is an emergency Iboga situation.  I always do it the day before in less the person has been doing Kambo on a regular basis.  Only I would do it the day of but NO ONE ELSE SHOULD EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.  Kambo makes everything else much more powerful.  Catalyst. 

2. I have read that Kambo becomes more effective the more you do it, so would you recommend a two or three Kambo purges, rather than one?

*3 times brother is the magic number.

3. If yes to two or three purges, how far apart should they be spaced out?

*Every time you do Kambo you will hopefully purge from 5-20 times sometimes much more.  As far as how far apart, you can do them close together, if you have the gusto and fortitude.  Can do 3 within a 3 hour span is the most extreme.  Or 2 times within 5 hours then the next day 1 more.  But standard is 1 time every moon cycle when the moon is waning (last quarter to new moon).

4.  Would you still recommend doing 3 points to start with, and then increasing by two more every time; so 3, then 5, then 7, etc...

*Do 5 if you want to cut to the chase.  3 is hit or miss on if it will make you purge or not.  Also the closer to the Brachial vein you get the more likely it will make you purge. 

5.  Did you ever try applying Kambo to the acupuncture meridiens?  How did it work out?

*No I have not tried yet.  Soon.  I will hopefully be trained by Giovanni in California in September, then I will learn from the master.

Hope this helped

This topic has been moved to Kambo Preparation for the Pinnacle Spiritual Experience (Iboga flood).

http://kambo.me/smf/index.php?topic=40.0

Very interesting, I had actually thought that could be a possibility.  I set the record from 2005-2009 for most Ganja smoked by one person.  Guiness Books it was unofficial but the reward was a lot of phlegm.  Most have been it.

Sorry about being negligent about this.  This is from a paper that Giovanni Lattanzi wrote entitled "Kambo Science", he has given me permission to post his articles but as of yet I have not.

Scientific research on kambo: nine powerful bio-active peptides
 
Scientific research on the secretion of this frog started in the 1980’s.  Nominated for the Nobel prize, Italian scientist Vittorio Erspamer of the University of Rome wrote that this secretion contains a ‘fantastic chemical cocktail with potential medical applications, unequaled by any other amphibian’ (1). ‘Among the several dozen peptides found in kambo, up to 7% are bio-active.’(1) They bind with receptor sites situated in the brain, triggering chemical reactions in the human body.  So far, researchers have found nine bio-active peptides that have a potent effect on the gastrointestinal muscles, gastric and pancreatic secretions, blood circulation, and on the stimulation of the adrenal cortex and pituitary gland.  ‘Phyllomedusin strongly affects intestines, bowels and contributes to deep purging.  Phyllokinin and phyllomedusin are potent vessel dilators, increasing the permeability of the blood-brain barrier.  This facilitates access to the brain of these two, as well as the other active peptides.  Caerulein and sauvagine cause a fall in blood pressure accompanied by tachycardia.  They stimulate the adrenal cortex and the pituitary gland, contributing to heightened sensory perception and increased stamina.  Both of these peptides have a strong analgesic effect, enhance endurance, increase physical strength and in general, enhance the capacity to face pain and stressful situations.   They possess medical potential as digestive aids, and have demonstrated analgesic effects for those with renal colic, pain due to peripheral vascular insufficiency and cancer pain.  Dermorphin and deltorphin are potent opioid peptides 4000 times stronger than morphine and 40 times stronger than endogenic b-endorphines. (1).  In the 1990’s, a new peptide, adenoregulin, was discovered by John Daly’s team at the National Institute of Health in the USA.  Adenoregulin works in the human body through the adenosine receptors, a fundamental component in all human cell fuel. These receptors can offer a target for treating depression, stroke seizures and cognitive loss ailments such as Alzheimer’s disease. Scientific research on the peptides of kambo are opening up new perspectives on how the human brain works.  The properties of kambo peptides cover a wide range of potential medical uses: treatment of brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, depression, migraines, blood circulation problems, vascular insufficiency, organ diseases, skin and eyes issues, fertility problems in women and men, AID’s, hepatitis, cancer, etc.  Other interesting medicinal properties of this secretion are its anti-inflammatory effects, its capacity to destroy microbes and viruses and heal infections. (1)  Due to the presence of these nine peptides, kambo is one of the strongest natural antibiotics and anesthetics found in the world and one of the strongest, natural ways to empower our immune system. The kambo treatments have short and long term effects.  ‘Short term, the effects are a state of alertness, good mood, enhanced resistance to tiredness, hunger and thirst’ (1), the capacity to easily concentrate and focus, and a still mind which can last for several days or weeks. Long term, kambo empowers the immune system, overcomes fatigue and improves one’s state of health.