It derives from a four-foot-tall shrub, Tabernanthe iboga, that grows in the Central African rainforest and was long used in traditional medicine as a mild stimulant and in religious ceremonies.

But the main active ingredient of Tabernanthe iboga, a West African shrub that grows in the Congo and Angola, can also be ...

“What happened was, Dana had explained to me about how the Tabernanthe iboga, the root, the plant, was used by the Bwiti people of West Africa as a psychedelic ritual to communicate with the ...

One particularly creative student selected trees related to Tabernanthe iboga, a tree indigenous to Africa that produces ibogaine, an indole alkaloid that has been postulated as a treatment for ...

Ibogaine, a synthetic version of which is under development by atai company DemeRx, is a psychedelic compound found in the root bark of the African shrub Tabernanthe iboga. First synthesized in ...

While Ibogaine treatment has mushroomed in Mexico and a few other nations, in the U.S. it remains on the Schedule I list of ...

Once again, David Graham Scott examines how some addicts use the plant medicine iboga to detox rapidly—and how, sometimes, the conditions in which they detox put them at risk.