How a Shaman’s Medicine is Curing Combat Veterans of PTSD [1]

[2]Dylan Charles [3], Editor
Waking Times [4]

Getting for help for PTSD through the Veteran’s Administration is a frustrating experience for many returning from war, and the typical treatments follows the psychiactric model [5] which prescribes counseling and psychotropic medications [6], which for many, only further cloud the psyche, preventing any true resolution of the fear and guilt associated with combat-related PTSD. As an alternative, many desperate veterans are seeking treatment from an unusual source, an entheogenic shamanic plant medicine [7] from Africa, named iboga [8].