Jipijapa

I also spend some days in the neighbour villages with all very different energies.
One friend took me with to a an Afro Peruvian dance workshop in Ayampe, where I met this guy wich told me about his Kambo Therapy last night. I wanted to do it for a long time even in germany, so I got the contact of Remy, a frenchman living in this community house top of a hill. He had great experience in this therapeutic treatments so I gave it a try. He explained the process very detailed and answered all my questions about it.

Kambo is the secret on the skin of the bright green giant frogs that live in the Amazon jungle.
Research has shown that substance is loaded with all kinds of powerful biopeptides. One of the peptides interacts with the body’s own opiate receptors, so it can help physical and mental pain. The ceremony itself may also create a calming effect.
The medicine basically is used to purge the body from all kind of Toxins and can even heal diabetes, arthritis, depression, anxiety etc. etc.

Before the therapy I wasn’t allowed to eat for 8 hours to keep my stomach free. When we started I had to drink two liters of water in 20min, to widen the stomach. Then he hit rape into my nose (a tobacco mixture, wich cleanses the paranasal sinuses and helps the medicine circulate in the body).
I got seated onto to ground when Remy went behind me and opened my skin on 5 different parts on my lower back, with a moldering piece palo santo wood. Many people do it on their upper arm. I wanted the openings to be exactly were my backpain is.
Then he put the medicine into it. The experience is intense and fast. Within a minute or so, i started feeling the effects: a warm flush of heat in the upper body and face, increased heart rate, dizziness and nausea. I had the feeling of throwing up but didn’t. Instead I sweated like never before and began to lay down on my side where I felt how the kambo is running all through my body scanning for issues.
After ~30 minutes I started throwing up in the big bucket in front of me. It tasted so bitter, like all the toxins I gathered throughout my life came out at this point. I kept on for maybe an hour, while Remy was always by my side supporting me and supplying me with water and music.
I surrendered and relaxed into this uncomfortableness, when I fell asleep for 2 hours.
As I woke up, I felt this calmness in and around me. The sickness left, I petted the dog lying next to me, stood up, went outside the door and saw this intense sundown. What an experience!

I went back to Montanita where some Argentinian friends invited me for self made Sorrentinos, a traditional pasta art like Ravioli or Maultaschen :)
I ate, slept like a baby and woke up the next morning fresher than Wim Hof after an icebath.

Now I’m sitting on the night bus to the headquarter Quito. 10h drive, 2 are over. Front row with the most leg room.Read more