This study also saw an improvement in an age weighted brain scan measurement of almost 1.5 years after a single ibogaine treatment session. Ibogaine was already

This study also saw an improvement in an age weighted brain scan measurement of almost 1.5 years after a single ibogaine treatment session. Ibogaine was already a medicine over 100 years ago, and has what is apparently generations of seemingly safe use in Gabon. The concept of a 'blind' placebo falls apart with these types of medicines as it is obvious if you got an active medicine or not. There is a proposal to do the treatments under a normal blind situation and then offer the placebo ones treatment too, that was the proposal for narcotic detox for which it was felt there was an ethical dilemma to having them go through such hoops and not get treatment. The normal outcomes of long term substance abuse and conventional treatments are already well documented. Theoretically one can work out the statistics also against normal matched PTSD patients under conventional treatment. Double blind is the gold standard in western medicine, but the two issues are repurposing a natural medicine with centuries of use and the blind issue with obvious mental activity.