ABOUT MADERA SAGRADA IBOGAINE CLINIC SPAIN/EUROPE

Madera Sagrada is Rich’s treatment centre in Orgiva, Spain, Europe.
Set in an old stone cottage with a pool and surrounded by the beautiful nature and small mountains that form the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.

These photos should provide some idea of the house, property, land rooms and surroundings.

Rich Hughes; ibogaine provider and owner of Madera Sagrada (middle). Shamana Leah spirit speaks on right and Rickhardt on left.

Rich speaks both English and Spanish.

Rich tried several rehabs and detoxification techniques before he came across ibogaine – he very quickly realised that it was powerful medicine and post his ibogaine detox from crack and heroin addiction he trained in Wales, Mexico and Portugal under more experienced ibogaine providers like Chris Laurance, Narina Walls and Alvaro’s team at Tabula Rasa including Dr Fred.

After more than a decade battling with crack and heroin addiction and trying very hard, to ‘get’ the standard recovery techniques on offer such as methadone, Subutex, CBT, and 12 step programs such as NA and AA. He finally came across psychedelics as a medicinal ‘cure’ to addiction, discovering ibogaine and iboga, he moved from his council flat in a small town near London, England to an Ashram in Wales then onto México and later Portugal to learn more about ibogaine drug detox in centres there.

He felt so amazed at the almost instant removal of physical withdrawal from opiate addiction that ibogaine provided him (a painful, drawn-out experience under more standard detox techniques) alongside other changes he underwent, he decided to dedicate his life to working with this special medicine. He went on to study, volunteer and work with several ibogaine providers; learning to read ECG’s, understanding drug interactions and more before completing a first aid course and opening his own ibogaine centre in Spain, Europe.

The shamanic use of psychedelics provides an important ‘break-through’ experience for an addict seeking freedom, but it’s up to them to ‘see it through’. After several failures over the years combined with a lot of experience and training, he has developed a program that ACTUALLY works.

Ibogaine is FANTASTIC medicine for an addict seeking freedom, but it is not a stand-alone solution. Becoming self-aware through a combination of meditation, understanding of the midbrain, and how to take control of your mind and body through breathwork and cold/heat exposure, such as the Wim Hof method amongst others, are invaluable to someone making this journey away from addiction.

Herb-lore he learnt from the indigenous people of Latin America aids this work and the process – providing his clients a natural way to calm themselves without having to rely on pharmaceuticals such as booze, benzos and opiates. These herbs provide a valuable stop gap whilst the ibogaine experience develops and the meditation and breathwork takes hold allowing a deeper change to unfold.

Whilst volunteering and working with other ibogaine providers he got to see the good, the bad and the ugly of the ibogaine treatment world. Even witnessing a death, which after some deep reflection about whether to continue this path spurred him onto a deeper understanding and study of ibogaine pharmacological reactions, ECG’s/EKGs, cardiac knowledge, medicine and first aid.

Rich has had a rough and ragged journey, in many ways he has learnt ‘the hard-way’ but he has learnt a lot on his journey, coming through much and ultimately triumphing. His passion is to pass on his hard-won knowledge through ibogaine treatments and supporting techniques to people still suffering from addiction, and training people who feel ‘the calling’ to provide ibogaine.

Rich’s dream is to see ibogaine knowledge spread and for this valuable treatment to become common practice, he would like to see it use expand, even reaching into the prison system.