Iboga & Ibogaine
Ibogaine is a naturally occurring psychoactive indole alkaloid found in plants in the Apocynaceae family such as Tabernanthe iboga, Voacanga africana and Tabernaemontana undulata. In the iboga plant (Tabernanthe iboga), the highest concentration of ibogaine is found in the root bark.
These plants are used for medicinal and ritualistic purposes among the tribes of Congo and Gabon. Similar to the popular ayahuasca of South American shamanism, the Central African plant that is iboga is considered to be a teacher plant’ and an ‘Entheogen’ – ‘Entheo’ coming from the old Greek word for ‘God,’ and ‘gen’ signifying ‘generate’ or ‘generation.’
The most common use for iboga is in the treatment of addiction, outside of Western clinical environments. It is reported that withdrawal symptoms are greatly minimized during the process of healing addiction with the use of iboga. In the tribal cultures of the Congo Basin, significantly larger doses of this plant are used for the purposes of initiation.
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