Safety is our priority.
For participants and practitioners.
For the frogs and the planet.
The members of Kambo Practitioner Collective take safety seriously. We follow these guidelines in the effort to keep participants, practitioners, and the planet unharmed.
Holding facilitators to higher standards of safety within the practice will create a higher baseline of medicine service around the world.
There’s no downside to creating and upholding a safer medicine space.
Accidents are easy to avoid when proper preparatory measurements and safety protocols are implemented.
These are very basic, easy and important safety measures that can greatly reduce the risk of accidents in the Kambo space.
Participants, please make sure your practitioner is following these four simple and extremely important guidelines. Practitioners, these guidelines can keep you, your people and the medicine practice safe for years to come.
1. Health form: Every participant receiving medicine should fill out a health form from their practitioner to ensure that Kambo is a safe avenue for their healing and there are no contraindications present.
2. Test point: Offering just one point of medicine for the first few minutes before adding multiple points is a safe way to gauge recipients sensitivity and tolerance to the secretion.
3. Limit water intake: Many of the accidents that have happened surrounding kambo have been because of hyponatremia (water toxicity). This is EASILY avoidable by limiting the amount of water intake before and during a session.
4. Crawling to the bathroom: keeping a low center of gravity while going to the bathroom reduces the risk of passing out while points of the secretion are on the skin.
This information is intended to support those considering sitting with medicine and those facilitating.
Together we can keep this medicine practice safe, accessible, and ethical for years to come if it can be carried and served by people who prioritize safety.