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The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications
by Christian Ratsch, Albert Hofmann Hardcover: 944 pgs
Publisher: Park Street Press (2005)
ISBN-13: 978-0892819782 ISBN-10: 0892819782
The most comprehensive guide to the botany, history, distribution, & cultivation of all known psychoactive plants
Examines 414 psychoactive plants & related substances, 797 color photographs & 645 black-and-white illustrations. Explores how using psychoactive plants in a culturally sanctioned context can produce important insights into the nature of reality. The author begins with 168 most well-known - cannabis, datura, & papaver -then presents 133 lesser known substances as well as additional plants known as “legal highs,” known only from mythological contexts & literature, & plant products including ayahuasca, incense, & soma. In the traditions of every culture, plants have been highly valued for their nourishing, healing, & transformative properties.When taken in a culturally sanctioned context, such plants can produce important insights into the nature of reality. Rätsch details the botany, history, distribution, cultivation, & preparation and dosage of more than 400 psychoactive plants, discussing the ritual & medicinal usage, cultural artifacts from these plants, & works of art representing or inspired by them.
psychoactive fungi,smoking blends, alcoholic beverages, snuffs, incense, & ointments. an analysis of the chemical constituents responsible for psychoactive powers. from the shamanic point of view, the plant’s spirit.