ibogaine

[ ih-boh-guh-een ]

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noun

, Pharmacology.

an alkaloid, C 20 H 26 N 2 O, obtained from an African shrub, Tabernanthe iboga, having antidepressant and hallucinogenic properties.

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Word History and Origins

From French ibogaïne (1901), from New Latin iboga the shrub's specific epithet (said to be from an Indigenous language of the Congo) + French -ine -ine ²

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Example Sentences

Ibogaine puts you in the middle of your struggle, in the middle of your pain.

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The ibogaine ceremony begins when her heroin withdrawal reaches a breaking point.

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After intense training in Gabon following the incident, he dedicated himself to practicing ibogaine ceremonies like the Bwiti.

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Lotsof eventually took the drug to the Netherlands, where some of the first ibogaine clinics were born.

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