Kambo Frog Medicine: My Experience

Frog medicine is akin to water energy. It brings cleansing, releasing, healing, replenishment, and purification.

It was my last couple of days in Asheville. I was informed a friend of John’s would be bringing Kambo and holding ceremony nearby. I had heard of it before as being a powerful detoxifier, and knew friends who had done it, but I wasn’t entirely sure what it was all about. I asked my trustworthy amethyst merkaba pendulum, a clear channel to my higher self whether or not I would participate in the ceremony. It swung to the left, indicating yes. When the practitioner arrived, he seemed somewhat uneasy, wide eyed, and withdrawn. He and the others warned me how intense the medicine is. Fear gripped me and the uneasiness of this wide-eyed frog-like man gave me second thoughts about participating in the ceremony. I didn’t even really know what the medicine was for other than cleansing the energetic field. It seemed like a lot of pain and discomfort to go through for such an intangible result. I left with Nick and we ventured to a waterfall far away from the city. I went against the guidance of the pendulum and drove off way out of town to seek solace in the mountains. As I was sitting in the stream, I got the nudge from above that I was meant to make it to the ceremony that night. I double-checked that it wasn’t too late, and when I heard that it wasn’t, I got the address of the land where it would be held and floated, carried by spirit the whole way there. The ceremony was being held at “RiverHeart Sanctuary”. I barreled down a rocky, grassy road all the way down to the river. I was suddenly in the middle of a very enchanted forest. When I arrived to the little campsite by the river, Z had just taken the medicine, his face was flushed, eyes red, with red dots in a geometric shape around his stomach. I decided to take a dip in the river before the ceremony. Just as Nick and I were sitting on the rocks by the water, a frog jumped in with a sploosh. Frog medicine was making its presence known. Hesitant at first, I thrust myself into the water, ducking my head under and emerged, cleansed and refreshed. John was next up for the ceremony, I watched nervously as he purged into the hole dug into the earth and went back and forth to the outhouse. When he finished, it was my turn to get my marks for where the burns would be. The practitioner tested to find my meridian and marked four dots from below my sternum down to my belly button. He lit a stick and burned four dots into the skin on my stomach where he had made the marks. I shrieked and fought myself not to push him away. Then came the jape. He blew a mix of sacred tobacco and herbs into each of my nostrils. It made me feel clear, alert and grounded immediately and served to guide the kambo medicine. Then, he had me drink a lot of water and placed the waxy looking medicine on the four burns on my stomach. At first I felt ok, then slowly I started to feel hot and itchy, my neck and face felt like they were swelling up. I prayed to frog medicine to heal me, cleanse me, release me. I felt the force of the medicine pushing everything out of my body in both directions. At first I thought I would have a bowel movement, but then the energy moved up and I purged into the hole in the earth. Then, the tears welled up in me and I started weeping profusely from the physical pain, but more-so the emotional pain that I had been carrying around. I cried and cried, not holding back, letting it all out as frog medicine honored my tears by cleansing my soul.  Another purge came, and then another this time even stronger and more forceful. I sat up, blowing my nose, wiping my mouth, still crying, but so so humbled and incredibly grateful. The whole time I was thanking pachamama, frog medicine, and my helping spirits for this experience. I released the toxicity, physical, emotional and mental that I had been holding on to.  As my portion of the ceremony was finishing, the darkness was falling on us and we packed up and went back to the house for the night. Halfway through the drive home I started to feel more normal again. The burns still hurt and my throat was sore from all the purging, but i felt this sense of renewal, of clarity, my energy field was indeed cleared of toxic energies and negative entity attachments. Basically, negative entities are highly energized thought forms of negativity, fear, anger, hatred, greed, gluttony, etc. When we energize these types of thoughts and emotions, they turn into what we call “demons”, but really they are not some unknown, outside boogeyman, they are the dark parts of ourselves that we refuse to look at an deal with which end up attaching to our auric field and draining our energy. I am incredibly proud of myself for going through with it. The burns on my stomach are a constant reminder of my dedication to my healing journey, my love for myself, and my own bravery, strength, and resilience. I definitely recommend this medicine to anyone on the journey to purification. It not only cleanses you physically, but also emotionally and energetically. It was an amazing opportunity to release everything that was standing in the way of my growth and expression of my true self. I feel lighter, happier, freer, without the burden of all that emotional, physical, mental and energetic baggage.