Safety & Science

Making Ayahuasca

Please delete this if it's inappropriate. http://www.shaman-australis.com.au/shop/ayahuasca_cp_287.php What ingredients would one need to make an easy cleanse solution at home?

18-MC / 18-Methoxycoronaridine Human studies to begin in 2013

Savant HWP Announces NIDA Funding for Pre-clinical Development of 18-MC as Potential Treatment for Addiction, Obesity http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/savant-hwp-announces-n…

Total-Alkaloid Extract of T.iboga - (Now w/pics)

**This is for research purposes only** This is a safe and effective measure to collect all the essential alkaloids from the plant material without having to consume pure root-bark.…

1997 patent to reduce and cure brain damage.

http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/5629307.html While researching using ibo for someone with ALS I stumbled upon this link to a patten pending. the medical terms make it hard to re…

Ibogaine and brain glutamate ?

Okay all you budding scientists and on-line researchers ..... DOES IBOGAINE INCREASE GLUTAMATE IN THE BRAIN ? j.b.g.

NO GRAPEFRUIT

Hi all Iboga Nation, we all know that grapefruit should not be mixed with Iboga(aine), but check this report I found on one cite: Grapefruits can trigger overdoses in dozens of med…

German chamomile helps prevent morphine addiction.

It helps to inhibit the development of addiction and also prevents the withdrawal symptoms. I believe the specific constituent of German Chamomile they're describing is Apigenin. W…

How much water do you add in the Chris Jenks method?

I watched Chris Jenks interview and he said for every 2kg of RB, he used 4.5mL of water and 1.5L of vinegar or something like that and they're the proportions I went by. I started…

Soxhlet extraction with acetone

Anyone here tried a Soxhlet extractor for iboga extractions? The solvent I'd use is acetone because the freebase alkaloids are soluble in it, it has a low boiling and its aprotic (…

Increasing the shelf life of your extracts

I read that ibogaine HCl has a shelf life of about 3 years. The freebase alkaloid will be lower than that. I did a whole class on pharmaceutical formulation in college so I know a…

Degradation of iboga alkaloids

I did an extraction on 30g RB myself and ended up with only 250mg which is a terrible yield, and I didn't even bother to filter the product because it was clogging up the filter an…

Food Safe Purification Questions

Was wondering if the simple 3x-4x vinegar soak method when strained and then evaporated could be further purified? My guess would be that it could but just wondering the most effic…

NH3 purification questions???

I've been hornswaggled twice now by stupid companies that call their ammonia 'Pure'Ammonia. But this stuff leaves a slight amount of residue when I tested it by evaporating it. I w…

PTA vrs. TA (Purified Total Alkaloids vrs. Total Alkaloids)

I am wondering how much more effective PTA is vrs. TA. Currently I have only had TA and I have to say I would like to have more exact method without converting to all Ibogaine. I t…

50g. iboga extraction (part 1)

This thread will serve as a means of putting Dr.Jenks improved extraction technique 2 the test. At the same time it will allow anyone whos interested in performing the good Doctors…

Pleasure form neurologicla p.o.v.

Hi all, check out this cite: http://www.bltc.com/ it is interesting, it talks about pleasure form Darwinian and neurosicientific direction. It is writen by David Pearce, and his on…

Non-toxic food safe extraction of Iboga alkaloids using limonene

As far as I can tell, this limonene tek has not been tested on Iboga before. When dealing with Iboga I feel performing an alkaloid extraction may be advantageous for reasons I shal…

IBOGA: MAOI vs. SSRI

i am neither a chemist nor scientist what is iboga; MAOI or SSRI In the article: Pharmacodynamics and Therapeutic Applications of Iboga and Ibogaine By Robert Goutarel, Honorary Re…

question regarding ibogaine and Amyloid Beta

does anyone know of any research or have any info on ibogaine and or noribogaine's effects if any on clearing Amyloid Beta from the brain?

Possible to convert ibogaine into noribogaine?

I am under the impression that there is a small amount of noribogaine among the alkaloids in iboga root bark and full spectrum alkaloid extract, and that this is what ibogaine is c…

Easiest way...

to extract 17g rb to a TA? Yield??? Enough for flooding a 170lb non-addict for psycho spiritual purposes? Any help would be appreciated. I don't really want him to have to take all…

iboga and glivec

For a sister who is considering doing some spiritual work with the bark, I am looking for information on possible interactions with Glivec, aka Imatinib, a selective enzyme inhibit…

iboga root extraction ?

I dunno if buying a bunch of root and extract it would yield any subtsantial ibogaine TA ? Did anyone tested this on root ? Otherwise I was looking into voacangine to ibogaine conv…

iboga and high cholesterol

does anyone know iboga and ibogaines safety profile in regards to having high cholesterol?

apomorphine

Why did you stop taking drugs? BURROUGHS: I was living in Tangier in 1957, and I had spent a month in a tiny room in the Casbah staring at the toe of my foot. The room had filled u…

Keep iboga, stability of ibogaine

Hi i have receive iboga from cameroon. How long will keep iboga? it is in a hermetic bag, in cool, in the dark. If not in the fridge is it better? This molecule is stable???how tim…

Yerba Mate' Iboga

This is something I began trying before my flood. So those that drank Yerba Mate' (Ilex ilex paraguariensis) know that it is consumed in the form of a stainless steel staw (bambill…

how much rootbark do I need?

Hey, I'm posting this with hopeful intentions of getting myself and my wife off of methadone maintenance. We've both been on methadone for the past 4 years, and was smoking heroin…

TA in acetone, how long?

Hi all, Q1: how long should TA sit in acetone? Q2: If I don't do the acetone step, and have ammonia step as last, this TA is not soluble in water? Then how is it absorbed by the bo…

methanol tek

when i was about to do my 1st extraction, i was considering methanol. but since everybody seemed to be going the acetic acid route, tried an proven, thought i'd proceed on the safe…