Ibogaine

12-methoxyibogamine, C₂₀H₂₈N₂O (mol. wt. 312.45)

Tihkal #25. This indole alkaloid with a distinctive (and synthetically difficult) seven-membered ring is under investigation as a cure for addiction.

From "Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered" by Grinspoon and Bakalar:

Psychological effects: Little is known, but the available reports suggest that it is like harmaline, but less purely visual and symbolic. The images are often of fountains, tubes, marshy creatures, white and blue light, and rotating motion. Explosions of rage directed agains the images of persons and situations from the past are reported. Childhood fantasies are reenacted, and a sense of insight and heightened emotion often accompany the images. The drug taker concentrates on his inner world and personal past. The effect is easily distinguishable from LSD.

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Documents:

• Ibogaine FAQ
  by ibog@aol.com, originally posted to alt.psychoactives, 1995. Includes a useful bibliography.
• Ibogaine -- The End Of Heroin Withdrawl?
  by Alexander Highcrest. From "eye WEEKLY", August 4, 1994, Toronto.
• Ibogaine Info
  by Shecky Green, from alt.psychoactives
• Ibogaine article from the Philadelphia Enquirer
  July 4, 1992
• Iboga Alkaloids
  From The Hallucinogens, by A. Hoffer and M. Osmond, Academic Press, 1967.
• Ibogaine: A Psychedelic Treatment for Drug Addiction.
  by Linda Gibson. From "High Times", March 1992
• Extracting Ibogaine from Tabernanthe iboga and Trachelospermum jasminoides
  A guide to extracting Ibogaine from J Amer. Chem. soc #80: 123, 1958
• Adam, Eve and Iboga
  by Giorgio Samorini (originally published in Integration, vol. 4)
• Iboga-tourism in Central Africa by Nick Sandberg
• Development of Ibogaine as an Anti-Addictive Drug.
  A progress report from the University of Miami School of Medicine

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Contacts and URLs:

• African Ethnobotanicals (homepage, more info)
  Information on Iboga and other sacred plants of Africa
• Erowid (homepage, more info)
  "Documenting the Complex Relationship between Humans and Psychoactives"
  • Drug Testing Homepage
    Drug testing info for a wide variety of substances (related items...)
  • Ibogaine Vault (related items...)
• Ibogaine Dossier (homepage, more info)
  "Contains a wealth of information on ibogaine and its in vivo and in vitro actions, original articles of acclaimed ibogaine researchers, and information on experimental ibogaine treatment."
  • Ibogaine Bibliography (related items...)
  • Ibogaine Neurotoxicity
    Brief review and references. (related items...)
  • Ibogaine, een oplossing voor het verslavingsprobleem?
    Literature review in Dutch by Bert Peppelman (related items...)
  • Pharmacodynamics and Therapeutic Applications of Iboga and Ibogaine; The Bwiti: Gabonese initiation society; Ibogaine in Psychotherapy and for Controlling Narcotic Dependency
    Long and informative article by Robert Goutarel (related items...)
  • Pharmacology of Ibogaine and Ibogaine-Related Substances.
    Review by Piotr Popik and Phil Skolnick from "The Alkaloids", Vol.52, 1998. (related items...)
  • The Religion of Iboga or the Bwiti of the Fangs
    by P. Barabe, Med. trop. 12(3):251-257, (May/June) 1982. Translated by William J. Gladstone. (related items...)
  • The Use of Psychedelics in Dutch Psychiatry 1950-1970.
    by Stephen Snelders (related items...)
• Knehnav's Homepage (homepage, more info)
  • Iboga links (related items...)

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Images:

• Ibogaine 2D Structure

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Trip Reports:

• Account #1
  Substances: Ibogaine
• Ibogaine Stories: Excerpted reports from The Ibogaine Story
  Substances: Ibogaine

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