“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 ...

He knew little about ibogaine, a psychedelic derived from the root bark of a plant from the African rainforest, and neither do many U.S. scientists. But he signed up for the treatment anyway ...

In Gabon, where use of the iboga root is traditional, a Babongo woman's tribe uses the plant to help her recover from a depressive malaise. Director Benjamin De Loenen interviews people formerly ...