IBOGA
Name: Iboga
Scientific name: Tabernanthe iboga
Other names: sacred Wood, eboka
Summary: Fight against drug addiction.
Description: Shrub in flowers yellowish and in orangy fruits. The shrub
being able to grow up to 1,5 metres. The tree loosens a white latex.
Environment and culture: Native from the rain forests in Africa, notably
in Gabun where it grows naturally . It is cultivated in particular by some
African tribes.
Used parts: Root
Constituents: A dozen of alcaloïdes, ibogaïn of which (close to the serotonin, a natural substance secreted by brain), ibogamin, tabernanthin, ibogalin, coronaridin, voacangin, isovoacangin, conopharyngin.
History: The Bwiti cult in Africa use it since generations to communicate with their ancestors and become reconciled with death. The plant provoking visions with strong dose allows them to use it in religious and magic purposes and even of psychosomatic cure or against charms. Root is used in Gabun, in Bwiti Mitsogho, for the passage's rite to childhood to grown-up age. Iit arises so from an African esoteric tradition. The described visions are characterized as initiatory. The purpose of the initiation being, among others , to free socio-psychological individual of all the blockings accumulated during the childhood, to return the adult free of its choices to come. On the other hand, this cult allowed Bwiti to strengthen their culture by fighting against Christian or Islamic conversions.
Information: A lot of researches
already have to confirm the efficiency of iboga in case of drug addiction.
A lot of persons praised iboga for its virtues and more than 800 sites on
Internet are dedicated to it. The first one to have experimented this effect
is Howard Lotsof who continues to fight for 30 years for it official medical
use in the fight against drug addiction. Ibogaïn is also used in psychology
and psychiatry because it allows regressions until infancy.
Manners: Besides its capacity to produce visions, iboga allows to fight against hard drugs addiction as heroine or cocaine and even to see in any shape of drugs as well as in the treatments of replacement (methadon or subutex). Iboga eases and cuts quickly the lack physiological and psychic of its drugs. Besides it stimulates psyche and tones up body. It can be also used for persons in search of visions and spirituality. It is also aphrodisiac. It increases quite sensations as physical as psychic.
Effects: - in small dose (1 in 3g): tonic, powerful stimulant of the central nervous system, possibly aphrodisiac, losing addiction in drugs.
- in strong dose (> 10g): initiatory Visions, dreamlike state, psychological regression until small childhood. The strong doses allow also losing habit drugs because the addict can make understand drug's insignificance to a drugged man because this iboga's experience.
Warnings: The effects with strong dose are variable according to the context, the intention and people. It's better to be accompanied by somebody ( medicine man, bwiti initiated)during this kind of experience because the reactions are always unpredictable. Some initiated in the Gabun go as far as consuming more of it of 100g (what is strongly disadvised outside the initiatory context). It is necessary to know that some people die from overdose in the initiation having taken a very strong dose.
Sale is forbidden in certain countries as United States, Switzerland or Belgium.
Preparation: Root is often chewed, nevertheless it can be taken in decoction follow-up possibly of a maceration.
Directions for use: has regular usage : 1à 3g of root.
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