Bwiti of the Replublic of Gabon. Tribes used the plant in small dosages for alertness while on the hunt and in bigger dosages during sacred rituals, but in the early 1900s, the French recommended it as a treatment for heart and nervous conditions. The research of Ibogaine marched on and into the United States where, in Lexington, Ky., Dr. Harris Ibell of the Federal Narcotics Hospital, under CIA contract, gave eight morphine addicts doses and requested additional supplies, but all his work and information mysteriously vanished into the Department of Defense of CIA files. Anecdotal reports indicate that while on Ibogaine, he or she is detached from childhood recollections, but is reexamining, coming to grips with it, perhaps understanding it for the first time. All neuroses are potentially solvable this way.
Drug addiction is an illness of the spirit.
It puts you into a thirty-six hour waking dream state. During this altered state of consciousness, you relive your childhood experiences, get to the root of your addictions. In the 1960s, a middle-class junkie who had been experimenting with all forms of narcotics was given a dose of Ibogaine. An addict will tell you it's triggered by certain clues. We think it's similar to classic conditioning.