I found out that its not a matter of me overdoing the burns, I just happen to scar easily. The mild burns I did are still visible after 3 months, even when I applied Sangre de Grado. I have really light skin, but I don't think thats the issue, most peoples scars turn skin coloured relatively quickly, whereas mine stay pink for a very long time. I have a big scar on my forehead from 7 years ago, and its still pink. My older scars have turned white so maybe they'll go away eventually.

kiap and myco - any chance either one of you can post a pic of your scars?

This is myco, I lost the password for my old account. I'll borrow a decent camera and post a pic at some point.

This lady I was talking to on FB who has fibromyalgia (I suggested her to try kambo) and she responded by telling me that one of her friends did it bc she had cancer and was trying to be purged of the cancer by a peruvian shaman, but the burn wound got infected and she died, she said she would have probably died of the cancer anyway, but the burn wound infection caused her a lot of unneeded pain and suffering on her way out.... Has anyone heard of this happening before, is it possible (not likely but possible) for the burn wounds to get infected? Was the lady possibly lying or exaggerating? Idk I just think this should be up for discussion what do yall think?

The worst I experienced was a bit of itching while the burns were healing. I sterilised my burns with peroxide or dragons blood. Kambo itself has antiseptic properties so I doubt that the infection could have started during the application process. Sterilising the burns from time to time while they are healing should eliminate the possibility of infection altogether. The worst infection I've had was when I had pins put in my hand to help a wrist fracture heal, I didn't bother to sterilise it at all and after a month, the whole area around the pin swelled up with an infection. After a few days of sterilising with alcohol, the swelling went down. I don't see how someone could die from an infected burn like that, that kinda thing happens to people who don't have access to antiseptics but I've never heard of it happening to someone with access to topical antiseptics and prescription antibiotics.

I wonder if dragon's blood is anti-microbial. I kind of feel like it is. Besides forming a a second skin-like bandage and helping to repair skin. It sometimes burns like hydrogen peroxide when first applied. I also notice that pain of wounds are dulled after Dragon's Blood has been on a while, almost as if it has pain-relieving compounds as well.

Yeah sangre de grado is a potent antibiotic and antiviral. I've used it to cure stomach bugs multiple times. 10 drops in a glass of water cures the diarrhea and stomach pain rapidly.

I find dragons blood to be the most potent antimicrobial substance I have ever come across, I have cured stomach bugs 3 times with it already. I'm highly allergic to cats so when I stay in a house with cats, my sinuses get blocked and I get nasal infections and those Vicks First Defense sprays don't work very well at all so I got an idea. I filled a nasal spray with dilute dragons blood tincture.

I should warn you against making what in retrospect was a ridiculously silly mistake. I decide to dropper some pure tincture into my sinuses. I knew it was sting initially but for the whole night I had a sore throat and sinuses, the kinda sore throat where it hurts to swallow. I should have known a pure alcohol tincture would severely irritate the inner nasal cavity and throat lol. It worked though, the extreme itching I had stopped.

I should also mention though that every time I blow my nose, black stuff (dried dragons blood) comes out. I don't know if thats a problem or not (i.e. having a foreign substance remain in your nasal cavity for a long period of time) but it should be to a much lesser extent when the dragons blood is diluted.

Very interesting. I was on dexedrine for 5 years so my dopamine system is pretty heavily downregulated. I knew about NMDA antagonists reversing this kind of downregulation but I didn't know about the kappa opioid receptors relationship to all this.

Giovanni says its not uncommon for people to faint on it. He thought I was about to faint at one point, it was about 10 minutes after he applied to my upper arm (in my experience it comes on rapidly when applied there) and my pulse and temperature started rising rapidly and I was sweating profusely. The only time I've come close to losing consciousness was when I stood up to walk to the bathroom to purge after the peak. Got that sudden light headedness and loss of eye sight that happens when you stand up too quickly when you have low blood pressure. I don't think low blood pressure can cause one to faint while sitting down though.

I'm fascinated by this fainting phenomenon and would like to experience it myself. Do people dream when they faint during kambo?

Well, when I fainted during my 2nd kambo, I certainly didn't feel like I was avoiding pain. I was just going with whatever I was experiencing (which at the time was increasing heat in my head) and I was OK with that but then I found myself zoning out and bam, I fainted. I think it my case, it was simply that the kambo lowered my blood pressure to the point where I fainted.

Yeah maybe it is caused by low blood pressure. If I need to move somewhere during a kambo session, I usually have to crawl rather than walk because my blood pressure is so low, I lose my eye sight when I stand up. Do you remember dreaming you were out?

2 hours, good God. I always ask for the experience to come to an end and I think the spirit goes easy on me because it stops increasing in intensity when I ask. Are you embracing the experience for the whole duration?

Yeah the first time I did it, I got a fright and thought I was about to die but now I intuitively know I'll survive the experience. Even when I was purging blood a few days ago, I intuitively knew I would survive.

I recommend trying to applying it to meridians. I had self applied numerous times before and my face never swelled up but recently, I did a few sessions with Giovanni Latanzi in which he applied the medicine on meridian lines and each time, my face swelled up.

Yeah I've done it before but this was the first time someone else administered it. It has to be the meridians that caused the increase in intensity. There were no other variables involved that I'm aware of. Yesterday my face was swollen for the whole day.