Relevant Links

General links

International Association of Kambo Practitioners (IAKP): The IAKP is a group of practitioners and other interested parties who seek to support and encourage the safe, responsible and professional use of Kambo through training, raising awareness, developing and sharing knowledge, research, ethical behavior and best practice guidelines.

Phyllomedusa bicolor: Wikipedia page.

Sapo In My Soul, by Peter Gorman: Book about the story of the Western world’s discovery of Sapo/Kambo, and a guidebook to using the remedy traditionally.

Kambo: Scientific Research and Healing Treatments, by Giovanni Lattanzi: conclusions by this Italian scientist from the University of Rome and a Nobel prize nominee, who was the first person to analyze Kambo in a laboratory and discover that this secretion contains a “fantastic chemical cocktail with potential medical applications, unequaled by any other amphibian”.

Kambo Nomad on Facebook (Kambo Nomad) and on Instagram (@kambonomad).

Kambo science

Rediscovery of old drugs: the forgotten case of dermorphin for postoperative pain and palliation, 2018

Synthesis and Pharmacology of Halogenated δ-Opioid-Selective [D-Ala2]Deltorphin II Peptide Analogues, 2016

Antitumor and Angiostatic Activities of the Antimicrobial Peptide Dermaseptin B2, 2012

Antimicrobial peptides from Phyllomedusa frogs: from biomolecular diversity to potential nanotechnologic medical applications, 2010

The dermaseptin superfamily: A gene-based combinatorial library of antimicrobial peptides, 2008

Major biological effects induced by the skin secretion of the tree frog Phyllomedusa hypochondrialis, 2006

Isolation of dermatoxin from frog skin, an antibacterial peptide encoded by a novel member of the dermaseptin genes family, 2000

Dermorphin-related peptides from the skin of Phyllomedusa bicolor and their amidated analogs activate two μ opioid receptor subtypes that modulate antinociception and catalepsy in the rat, 1992

Frog secretions and hunting magic in the upper Amazon: Identification of a peptide that interacts with an adenosine receptor, 1992

Deltorphins: A family of naturally occurring peptides with high affinity and selectivity for 𝛿 opioid binding sites, 1989

The chemistry of poisons in amphibian skin, 1995

Pharmacological data on Phyllokinin (Bradykinyl-Isoleucyl-Tyrosine 0-Sulphate) and Bradykinyl-Isoleucyl-Tyrosine, 1966

Handbook of Biologically Active Peptides, 2013

Kambo in the media and online

Kambô: Nature’s Vaccine For The Mind And Body, reset.me, September 4, 2015

How Amazonian Tree Frog Poison Became the Latest Treatment for Addiction, Vice, May 9, 2016

9 Surprising Benefits of Amazon Frog Poison Kambo + Dangers, SelfHacked, June 14, 2018

The essential guide to Kambo, The Third Wave

Investigating the healing power of Kambo. The solution to so many human malaises comes from the frogs of the Amazon, Pharmacist Rosa Sanchis

Please note that IAKP Kambo Practitioners and Kambo Nomad are not medical practitioners and do not give medical advice or make diagnoses. Please consult your primary health care professional with any concern relating to your physical and mental health.