Treatment Day
The patient has to be without eating solid food since midnight the night before, we start at
9:00 AM, sign the inform consent and start IV, you get a medication for nausea Dramamine orally.
You will get a small dose of ibogaine HCl, a test dose, to check there is no sensibility to the
ibogaine, and after 30 min the full dose or “flood dose” typically 1,200 mgrs. to 1,500 mgrs.
orally. After the flood dose in 45 min to an hour later you will start feeling tingling warmth
sensation, a humming or buzzing sound and then the visions start.
After the initial 4 to 6 hours of intense visions the second phase, starts we call this second
phase processing. I believe it is the most important, part of the treatment it’s been described
as forced psychoanalysis or forced meditation. This is a very introspective phase where you are
faced with your personal issues over and over until you sort them out. This phase lasts from 12
to 36 hours.