W. Bryan Hubbard
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And that is the greatest truth conveyed by this fabulous plant.
Yes, sir.
So, Ibogaine is an alkaloid that is derived from the iboga shrub.
The iboga shrub originates in the central Congo Basin.
Its native country is modern-day Gabon.
It is the mother country of the iboga shrub, which has been used for centuries in the spiritual and cultural traditions of the Bwiti.
a group of spiritualists who include the Pygmies as well as the Bantu tribes that lived there in Gabon.
In the early 60s, it was discovered that Ibogaine and Iboga had a significant interruption effect on opioid addiction.
There was an individual who had been addicted to heroin for a number of years.
They took Ibogaine, and not only did they not experience any withdrawal when they stopped taking heroin, they stopped having any desire to use any drug whatsoever.
This touched off 60 years of open-label field studies that are mountains high and decades wide that firmly established that Ibogaine has a unique effect
and singular interruption capacity on physiological substance dependency, whether that's opioids, alcohol, methamphetamine, cocaine, or tobacco.
Recent evidence also suggests that it has a significant interruption effect on compulsive behaviors, anything that kind of impacts that brain's dopamine system and produces a rush.
Particularly gambling.
Yes, sir.
Now, in 2018, U.S.
Special Forces Special Operators started going to Mexico for treatment of symptoms of traumatic brain injury expressed through treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, and suicidality.
Many of these veterans had gone through the VA system.
They had been given an unbelievable amount of synthetic pharmacology that, in their end effect, essentially caused
anesthetizes the soul, and slowly euthanizes the body.