The encyclopedia of psychoactive plants : ethnopharmacology and its applications / Christian R�atsch ; foreword by Albert Hofmann ; translated by John R. Baker with assistance from Annabel Lee and Cornelia Ballent.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: Rochester, Vt. : Park Street Press, 2005.Description: 942 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 0892819782 (hardcover)
  • 9780892819782 (hardcover)
Other title:
  • Psychoactive plants
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • REF QK 99 .A1 R2813 2005
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Contents:
Introduction -- What are psychoactive plants? -- The use of psychoactive plants -- Psychoactive plants and shamanic consciousness -- The fear of psychoactive plants -- The study of psychoactive plants -- Psychoactive plants as factors in the development of culture -- The psychoactive plants -- On the structure of the major monographs -- The most important genera and species from A to Z -- Major monographs -- Little-studied psychoactive plants -- Minor monographs -- Reputed psychoactive plants -- "Legal highs" -- Psychoactive plants that have not yet been identified -- Psychoactive fungi -- The archaeology of entheogenic mushroom cults -- Cultivating mushrooms -- The genera and species from A to Z -- Purported psychoactive fungi -- General literature on psychoactive fungi -- Psychoactive products -- Active constituents of plants -- Active plant constituents and neurotransmitters -- The active plant constituents from A to Z -- Botanical taxonomy of psychoactive plants and fungi.
Summary: "The most comprehensive guide to the botany, history, distribution, and cultivation of all known psychoactive plants"--Provided by publisher.
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"The most comprehensive guide to the botany, history, distribution, and cultivation of all known psychoactive plants"--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 878-907) and index.

Introduction -- What are psychoactive plants? -- The use of psychoactive plants -- Psychoactive plants and shamanic consciousness -- The fear of psychoactive plants -- The study of psychoactive plants -- Psychoactive plants as factors in the development of culture -- The psychoactive plants -- On the structure of the major monographs -- The most important genera and species from A to Z -- Major monographs -- Little-studied psychoactive plants -- Minor monographs -- Reputed psychoactive plants -- "Legal highs" -- Psychoactive plants that have not yet been identified -- Psychoactive fungi -- The archaeology of entheogenic mushroom cults -- Cultivating mushrooms -- The genera and species from A to Z -- Purported psychoactive fungi -- General literature on psychoactive fungi -- Psychoactive products -- Active constituents of plants -- Active plant constituents and neurotransmitters -- The active plant constituents from A to Z -- Botanical taxonomy of psychoactive plants and fungi.

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