What does ibogaine NOT treat?

Uses with no evidence at all

Some conditions appear in clinic marketing with no human research behind them whatsoever. ADHD and autism have no ibogaine evidence base; autism in particular is a target of predatory "cure" marketing across many unproven treatments, and ibogaine is no exception. Long COVID is anecdote at best and effectively unstudied. Presenting any of these as treatable with ibogaine is selling ahead of, or entirely without, the science.

Uses that are anecdote only

A larger group has testimonials and a mechanistic story but no human outcome data:

• Parkinson's and neurodegeneration. The "neuroregeneration" claim comes from rodent studies showing ibogaine raises GDNF, a nerve growth factor, in animals.^[1] That is a real preclinical finding. It has never been shown to regenerate a human brain, and any "regrows your neurons" claim is an extrapolation, not a result.
• OCD, chronic pain, eating disorders, gambling. Case reports and mechanism arguments only. (Notably, for OCD it is psilocybin, not ibogaine, that has actual trial data.)
• Methamphetamine and nicotine. Anecdote and weak preclinical signals, not human efficacy data.

Anecdote is not nothing, but it is not proof, and it should never be priced or promised as proof.

Uses that are not just unproven but dangerous

Two deserve a hard stop:

• Benzodiazepine detox. Ibogaine does not act on the GABA system, does not relieve benzodiazepine withdrawal, and combining them stacks seizure risk on cardiac risk. Benzodiazepines must be tapered off first. This is serious enough to have its own page.
• Acute alcohol withdrawal without stabilization. Alcohol evidence is weak to anecdotal at best, and acute alcohol withdrawal carries its own seizure risk that ibogaine does not cover. Anyone alcohol-dependent must be medically stabilized and detoxed first, not dosed mid-withdrawal.

And the outright scams

Treat as an immediate red flag any claim that ibogaine cures cancer, HIV or other serious physical diseases. There is no evidence for these, they are the signature of predatory operators, and a clinic making them is telling you not to trust anything else it says.