Iboga and ibogaine, without the sales pitch
Independent, source-checked information on the plant, the science, the risks, the law, and the Bwiti tradition it comes from. No clinic referrals, no affiliate links.
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Ibogaine set beside the treatments people actually weigh it against, and the evidence each one has. The asymmetry is the finding.
Experiences
Most first-hand accounts of iboga sit on Reddit and Erowid. How to read them, what the clinical record adds, and where both go quiet.
Legality
Ibogaine's legal status runs from prohibited to prescribable. Twenty-six jurisdictions, each with the instrument behind it and whether we read it.
News
Who is moving ibogaine through American politics, what they have actually achieved, and what remains a proposal. Dated, and revisited.
The plant
A four-metre forest shrub from Central Africa, uprooted whole to reach its root bark. What botany establishes, and what nobody has measured.
Safety
No. Ibogaine can cause a fatal heart arrhythmia. Nineteen deaths are documented to 2008; in most, existing illness contributed.
Tradition
Iboga is a sacrament in an initiatory religion before it is anything else. What the published record establishes, and what is not ours to publish.
Science
What the peer-reviewed literature establishes about ibogaine, what it only suggests, and what has never been measured in a human at all.
Treatment
This page lists no clinics and takes no referral fee. What the term hides, what separates one provider from another, and what the questions are.
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Ibogaine and Federal Policy: What the Order Actually Does
Executive Order 14401 names ibogaine twice and reschedules nothing. What it directs, what it cannot reach, and the wrong number in circulation.
The Stanford Ibogaine Study, and How It Was Reported
Thirty men, treated once, in Mexico, before the researchers were involved. Two years of announcements have made it look like more.
The Other Alkaloids of Iboga
Iboga is a mixture, not a molecule. Ibogamine, ibogaline, tabernanthine and voacangine are in the bark, in the extract, and in the pure powder too.
What this site is
An independent information site about iboga and ibogaine. Not a clinic, not a vendor, not an advocacy group. It is funded by its founders, carries no advertising and no affiliate links, and refers no one to any provider.
The whole subject is covered in one place, in the complete guide. Everything else on the site develops one part of it.
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How we treat it
Primary sources first: statutes, trial registries, peer-reviewed research. Clinic marketing is the subject of our reporting, never a source for it. Where the evidence is thin, the page says so instead of rounding it up.
Legal pages carry the date their statute was last checked. Medical pages carry the name of the physician who reviewed them and the date they did. Both go stale in public rather than quietly.
How we source →Who writes it
Every page names its author. Safety, science and treatment pages also name the clinician who reviewed them, matched to the subject: a cardiologist for cardiac risk, an addiction specialist for withdrawal and interactions.
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Where ibogaine stands, country by country
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One subject, covered in one place
The complete guide runs from the plant to the law in a single read. Everything else on the site develops one part of it, with its sources shown and the date we last checked them.