Giovanni uses pain to help locate meridians. He puts pressure on various points around where the meridian should be and asks you where it hurts most. I had my first acukambo experience yesterday and saw clear differences in the effects produced. For the first time, my face swelled up and my skin even turned green at one point.

I saw a documentary on iboga which showed some of the African locals purging blood after ingesting iboga. They claimed that the people there believed this to be a spiritual phenomenon, rather than a physical one. Yesterday what I purged on kambo was blood red and I don't really have an explanation for it. If it were a bleeding ulcer, then my stool would have black streaks in it (blood turns black by the time it reaches the rectum). Very strange stuff. Any of you think there might be some kind of spiritual significance to this?

Yesterday and today I did kambo twice in 1-2 hours. Yesterday wasn't too intense but I purged intensely and instead of purging the usual clear yellow bile, I purged red liquid which I believe is blood since I hadn't eaten anything that day. After the first round, I recovered rapidly and was able to down another 1.5L of water and go for the 2nd round. Again, I vomited blood but much less this time. I was wrecked after the 2nd round, I lay in bed for a couple of hours then I felt great for the rest of the day. Unlike the previous times I've done kambo, this time my face did swell up. Mainly my upper lip for some reason.

Today I did the same thing, 2 rounds of kambo in about 2 hours. This time it was WAY more intense. The first round came on rapidly and intensely, I started sweating profusely then I purged and this time there was no blood, it was the usual yellow color. After purging, I had to lie down. Then on the second round, about 15 small dots were applied on my back, I didn't feel it at all for about 5 minutes, then it gradually came on and was pretty intense. I lay in bed barely able to move for at least 2 hours. In every one of these kambo rounds, my upper lip swelled up like mad for some reason. Thats strange because that has never happened to me before when I applied it to myself. This time Giovanni applied it to my meridians. Very interesting that I got different effects. The first round he gave me was a smaller quantity of kambo than what I had applied to myself in the past, yet it made my face swell up. Its clearly Giovannis method of applying it to meridians that made the difference.

As for the blood, I don't think its anything serious because there is no blood when I do a number 2 in the toilet, I think its probably just a bit of bleeding from my hiatal hernia. I started drinking dragons blood today, I bet that will take care of it.