Hi I been researching kambo for the past few months, my work started with Iboga which lead me to Ayahuasca which lead me to kambo. My reasons for wanting to try kambo was several, the first being im tired all the time, i just turned 37 and i have no energy, im a recovering drug addict i been sober 4 years into my 2 year of recovery i fell into a deep depression, basically because i was taking anti depressants that made me feel like a zombie and content with doing nothing but sitting around eating, which caused a major problem because i was wasting my life and i was NOT ok with just sitting around but at the time i couldnt do anything about it and it actually caused a major depression and anxiety so finally i had enough, i couldnt take it anymore so i decided to try Iboga and thank God i did because the Good Doctor took away 90% of my depression and anxiety but i still had that other 10% and through a Iboga session i was told to try Ayahuasca and i did. The First session with Aya allowed her to identify the problem and the 2nd session she was able to correct it, she told me that the problem with drug addict is because of all the drugs sometimes the synapses in the brian misfire and when this happens it causes glitches to be downloaded into our programing (subconscious) after about a year sober i started to notice something would go wrong in social situations, when meeting new people i would be in mid sentence and as my mind would come across these glitches, i would recognize that something was wrong but because the problem was in the programing itself, i was unable to realize what it was and it caused me to become majorly anti-social because as long as i didnt talk to anybody new it wouldnt happen, but it was really bothering me and i sent 3 years trying to figure out what it was, it seemed like it would happen when i was talking to woman moreso then men so i thought maybe it was because of bad past relationships, maybe i wasnt over the past and maybe that was making me feel that way. i really didnt know what to think, all i knew was something was wrong and i couldnt tell anybody about it because i didnt know what it was and it was driving me nuts, but Aya identified and corrected that for me, it was an amazing experience and im actually writing a book about it called "The Good Doctor" but thats another story in itself. The second reason was i suffer from chronic back pain and i heard it might be able to help with that too. The 3rd was i been sick with this damn stomach bug for 1 week now and im just sick of it and i was hoping Kambo would burn that shit out of my system. I bought a stick online from a trusted vendor a few weeks ago and i just been waiting for the right time to try it and after being sick for a week i said f*ck it i need to burn this shit out of my system.

i set up a little alter space in my room, i cleansed the space with white sage and dragons blood.i drank 2 liters of water then i did a rape' ceremony followed by sanaga, then applied palo santo oil to my forehead and chest for protection. I lit the end of a piece of bamboo and made the first burn. I removed the skin and got a nice glob of kambo and placed it on the burn, i didnt feel anything it looked too dry, i put a drop of water on it and moved it around with my knife and i instantly felt the heat, warm rush through my body, up into my head, my ear started to throb and it started to get intense, i let the glob on for as long as i could, i felt like i was going to purge but i didnt, when i couldnt take it anymore i wiped off the glob and i automatically started to feel better and after a few min i was back to normal. I was going to do 2 more points but after how intense the first 1 was, i decided it was best to do only 1 more especially considering the fact that i had this stomach bug and i didnt want to shit myself cuz my stomach was turning during the first point. So i did one more and it was even more intense almost purged but didnt, just kept burping but my stomach was in knots, i wiped it off and lay down for a few min. Next time i will try 2 points at the same time, i know it was recommended to do at least 3 points at a time, but Aya told me that because of my past years of drug abuse i needed to take it slow with medicine so i can learn respect so i need to take it slow for now, i will do 2 next time and if i dont purge, i will try 3 the time after that, i will post in this thread tomorrow to see if any progress was made.

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I just ordered some Piri-Piri. I plan on going to SQ july 8-10th for an ayahuasca ceremony and they provide kambo, but they charge $150 for a session and everybody i been talking says thats really high and they pay $50 per session. I dont have much money and all my friends say its not safe to apply kambo by myself. They say that if i dont have proper protection "evil spirits" can cause me harm and if i dont respect any medicine it can lead to addiction, which i totally understand. I do respect it, i just really cant afford $150 per session. I already bought some and i dont want anything bad to happen, so i was thinking i would let SQ do my first session and if it goes well then i might try applying it to myself in the future. Is there any truth in what my friends say or are they just being overly cautious?

PS i replied to that post 

Hi Helpless11,

I feel your pain, i have suffered on and off for the past 15 years from depression and anxiety. i experienced really bad anxiety and depression for 3 years straight. i was on meds that helped for the first year but they made me feel like a zombie, i didnt feel like doing anything, but i couldnt stop taking them because every time i tried i would get the brain zaps and just feel like shit. After 3 very long years of suffering i had enough and i needed to do something. I remembered reading about Iboga and how powerful of a healer it was said to be, so i decided to try some. I contacted a well known vendor and asked them if it could help me, at first i wanted to do a flood dose, but i am running a fairly new successful business and i dont have time to devote to a 48 hour experience, so i decided to try micro dosing especially after i read all the reviews about how much it helped all these other people with other similar problems, so i bought the 35 caps 300mg concentrated root bark. I stopped taking my meds 1 week before and i started with 2x 300mg caps 2 times a day for the first day. The 2nd day i took 2x 300mg tabs 3 times a day. At this level there was not any kind of psychedelic effects, other then time seemed to slow down and i sweated ALOT. There was moments of very slight nasua, but i would just take some ginger and eat a little bit and the i felt fine. i was able to go about my day, like any other day. On the 3rd day i bumped up the dose to 3x 300mg capsules 3x a day (making sure i didnt take any after 5-6pm because it can cause insomnia) by day 3 the sweating stopped and even at 3x 300mg 3 times a day there really wasnt any noticeable effects other then my white wall in my bathroom seemed pink for some reason. On day 4 i took the same amount as day 3, but this time i planned it out so i took the final dose 1 hour before i went to my AA meeting (i am a recovering drug addict, i have 4 years sober Yey!!!) but in meeting is where i would experience most of my anxiety in meetings around people. The meeting started and i started to feel the anxiety but this time it was different it was outside of me and then all of a sudden it was in front of me and i heard a voice say was saying "this is why you feel this way" and it was explained to me in such a profound way, that it just shatter my preconceived notions of what i thought was going on and the anxiety just was gone, the depression too, it just went away. I cant for the life of me remember what was said but it made so much sense that it snapped me out of my depression and anxiety all together. I continued to take the same dose of iboga for 2 more days until i started seeing trails coming off the lights at night, when everything started to seem really clear. i saw that as a sign that i was cleansed. That was over 4 almost 5 months ago and my depression and anxiety hasnt come back since. Now after about 3 weeks i did start to notice some mild depression setting in so when i start to feel like that every few days i take 2x 300mg caps in the morning and that gets it back under control. But i am so grateful i found iboga because it got me to the point where i was able to start working on bettering myself and address some of those issues and negative patterns that i picked up from being so depressed for so long. It literally saved my life, if you do decide to try it just make sure you are safe and message the owner of the site, i dont know if im allowed to post the name of the site but if you send me a private message i will send you the info. The people who own it are awesome and can advise you on any medication interactions and so on, but like you i tried everything and this is the only thing i ever found that worked as good as it did and does.

Hi everybody,
My name is Pete and i am a 36 year old recovering drug addict, i been clean and sober for almost 4 years now. I recently started working with iboga. When i first got sober i was put on antidepressants (cymbalta) which for the first year it really helped with my anxiety and depression and i also suffer from chronic back pain and cymbalta is marked as an anti depressant and it is also used to treat chronic pain so it made sense to try. After the first year i felt like i didnt need it anymore for the depression / anxiety but it was helping a lot for the chronic pain so i continued to take it and around 1 1/2 years into taking it i noticed that i felt numb, not physically numb but more so emotionally numb, i felt like a zombie, i was perfectly ok with just sitting on my couch not doing anything, but the problem was i really wasnt ok just sitting around and about 2 years into this i fell back into a severe depression and my anxiety was worse then it ever was. i felt like i was wasting my life, but i wasnt able to do anything about it. after suffering like this for another year, i finally decided i had enough and something told me to try iboga. this was a very difficult decision for me to make, because i am in recovery from drug addiction and i still go to regular AA & NA meetings and i love AA and NA they saved my life and the philosophy in the rooms is " A drug, is a drug, is a drug" meaning any mind altering chemicals i put into my body would only lead me down the same path of destruction i was on, i lost 10-15 years of my life because i couldnt stop using drugs and i dont ever want to end up like that again, My life is good today, i run my own home based business, i have a nice condo by the beach, but most importantly im happy and i dont ever want to do anything that could jeopardize that!

Back in my early years i experimented A LOT with different psychedelics like lsd, 5-meo-dmt, 4-aco-dmt, mushrooms, you name it and i saw there potential. my problem back then was i couldnt tell the difference between a drug and a medicine and i abused everything, but im sober now, i work a good program and most importantly in my heart of hearts i knew iboga was a medicine and i knew i was only taking it to try to heal myself from this damage these psych drugs did to me. i contacted a well known vendor and at first i was going to do a flood but something told me to try micro dosing first, so thats what i did. i bought a bunch of the powdered root back capsules and i started with taking 2x 300mgs around breakfast, lunch and dinner i did this for the first 2 days and i sweated my balls off, i was sitting in the A/C just sweating for 2 days. on day 3 i took 3x 300mg after a light breakfast lunch and dinner, by day 4 i really didnt notice any effects other then the first 2 days of sweating and music sounded better, but there was time distortion everything seemed to slow down which was great for me because i run my own business and im always in a hurry. this showed me by slowing down and taking my time i would actually get more stuff done.

On day 4 and i was on my way to an AA meeting and i would always experience a lot of anxiety in meetings. this time it was different, i started to feel the anxiety and at that point in time, i detached from the anxiety. i was still able to feel it but it wasnt in me anymore, it was out side of me and i heard a voice say " This is why you are feeling this way". it was right there in front of me and i was able to see it for what it really was.  then it just went away and hasnt come back since that was 4 months ago. the whole time this was happening, i was still totally aware of everything that was going on around me, it was just like for 1 second time slowed down doctor iboga can in fixed what needed fixing and then i went about my day. it was amazing and so much more was said in that time, but i cant for the life of me remember what it was. all i can remember is the profound sense of amazement i felt at the very end of it. the next day the center of my forehead felt weird. i felt pressure in my 3rd eye and saw and felt and saw the calcification break away. in the very moment i saw myself plug into the cosmic energy grid. i saw and felt this enegry serge up through my chakras and shoot out the top of my head, then my energy field started to spiral around me, opening me up and kind of knock off this stuff i been carrying around with me, as i saw all this happening i heard a voice say "sometimes we pick up things that are not our own and if we dont rid ourselves of them they will bog us down, this is how we rid ourselves of that energy". now keep in my i was in no way shape or form experience any "psychedelic" effects. these were true visions and they seemed to take place in the moments between time, outside of this realm. it was like doc iboga was saying, "look here, see" it was one of the most profound experiences of my life and there were no "psychedelic" effects at this level when these visions were happening. i was sitting in my office at home talking to one of my helpers, just going about my day, i went outside after this and everything was glowing. i saw very mild trails coming off lights, i saw that as a sign that i was cleansed.

the next day i woke up refreshed with no withdrawls at all from the antidepressants, my depression and anxiety has been gone since, after this experience i started learning everything i can about iboga, the bwiti and other sacred medicines. my search first lead me to ayahuasca, then to kambo, i still have a lot of negative energy and patterns i picked up from years of drug use. im sure these medicines can help me, i recently signed up for a weekend retreat here in the states for kambo and aya ceremony. i wanted to go to peru but with my busy work schedule and the fact that i dont have a passport yet so i guess i will have to wait for that. before i try to apply the kambo myself i thought it best to go to someone who can show me how to do it properly. i want to try kambo because i am tired all the time. i just have no energy at all and it sucks. i tried coffee, energy pill and drinks, all kinds of vitamines and nothing helps. my mom is the same way and says she has been like that since she was about my age. i also have chronic back pain and i have read that kambo can be helpful for that too, because i cant and wont take any kind of opiate and non narcotic pain meds really dont help much. i am hoping that working with these medicines can help me with that. The only thing that concerns me is that i do have high blood pressure. its very mild and my heart is fine.

i guess it just runs in the family because my sisters, mother and father all have high blood pressure. i think alot of it has to do with me being so depressed and unactive for 2-3 years and i just have poor circulation. i have been exercising a lot and im not on any other kinds of meds, does anybody have any advice or personal experience having HBP and using Kambo? should i stop taking my meds 72 hours before? from what i read kambo causes your heart to race and blood to flow quickly and it also lowers BP? which i dont understand because one would think the heart racing would cause the blood to flow faster which would make the BP go higher? i dont know, kambo is very new to me and i dont want to die  thants for taking the time to read this and thanks for all the great info here.. Love & Light Pete


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Im looking into my first Kambo experience and i want to be safe, im a 36 year old over all healthy male, except i have mildly high blood pressure and what i mean by that is im on the lowest possible dose of one of the weakest bp meds on the market, my heart is heathy. HBP just seems to run in my family,  so my question is 1. is it safe for me to do? 2 should i continue to take my bp meds or should i not take them the day of, 2 days before or 72 hours. from what i read kambo lowers bp and i dont want my bp getting too low. Any help would be greatly appreciated.