How does ibogaine work against addiction in body, mind and soul?

First of all, it has to be explained that it is not yet known in detail why ibogaine makes withdrawal so much more bearable for addicts, psychologically and physically.

There are already some medical studies on the success of ibogaine in addiction treatment, but what the active compounds do in the body and in brain chemistry has not yet been decoded. The hallucinations with closed eyes, which appear like visions, are likely to be an important element. How exactly these processes work, however, is unknown.

Addicts who have had an ibogaine treatment very often report that during the treatment they were confronted with the factors they hold responsible for the development of their addiction.

Other patients explain that they had visions with which they were able to recognise and overcome the fears underlying their addiction.

Many report having been back in their childhood, with a correspondingly different perception. It seems to replace the feeling of separateness with connectedness. This gives many people the strength they need to overcome their fears and live substance-free. It has long been known that a humane physical withdrawal carries a lower risk of relapse than a long phase of suffering. What matters here is that patients do not simply sit out their time, as in conventional facilities, but see this time as an opportunity and enjoy it. It may sound paradoxical to enjoy your withdrawal, or rather the therapy. However, this is overlaid by the ibogaine experience, and the visions it triggers are meant to be channelled positively. The person is meant to come back into harmony with themselves and with nature. Spending time in beautiful rooms and landscapes with positive people and activities is the key, so that the effect unfolds in the mind in such a way that the craving for the problem drug, as well as compulsive addictive behaviour towards any kind of high, no longer exists and the risk of relapse can be reduced. It should be noted that the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous achieved his withdrawal with the help of LSD, even if today's AA members do not want to know this and will deny it. The addiction in the head is the problem, and it cannot be switched off with conventional therapies after a few hard weeks. Anyone who cannot solve the problem at this point always has an extremely high risk of relapse into the previous or other addictive substances, or suffers considerably inside during the abstinent phase.

An addictive illness is, after all, eased with addictive substances. Ibogaine makes an almost painless opiate withdrawal possible overnight and also has the ability to bring about a change in consciousness. Through reflection, this extraordinary experience makes it possible to reach undreamt-of inner insights. Traumas that until then seemed impossible to overcome simply fall away. Addicted people have often experienced a large number of such emotional emergencies, but have never looked at the resulting post-traumatic stress disorders.

In our opinion, this fundamental step is the foundation of a successful therapy and, as a result, of a happy life. Conventional withdrawal and therapy facilities still only have familiar tools such as psychotherapy to bring about inner change in the client. Even after this often years-long process has been completed successfully, the painful physical withdrawal still lies ahead. Because this is often associated with long-lasting severe depression, it takes an enormous amount of strength and self-discipline to overcome it. Ibogaine seems to look at all aspects of addiction and depression and to leave an individual feeling of safety. This leads to an almost painless physical detox overnight. Experiencing connectedness. The "newly installed operating system" can be programmed completely freely again and has a craving and anxiety blocker installed that helps for months to keep our mind free of viruses.