The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications 1st edition by Christian Rätsch ISBN ‎ 0892819782 ‎ 978-0892819782

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ISBN 10:‎ 0892819782
ISBN 13: ‎ 978-0892819782
Author: Christian Rätsch

The most comprehensive guide to the botany, history, distribution, and cultivation of all known psychoactive plants

• Examines 414 psychoactive plants and related substances

• Explores how using psychoactive plants in a culturally sanctioned context can produce important insights into the nature of reality

• Contains 797 color photographs and 645 black-and-white illustrations

In the traditions of every culture, plants have been highly valued for their nourishing, healing, and transformative properties. The most powerful plants–those known to transport the human mind into other dimensions of consciousness–have traditionally been regarded as sacred. In The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants Christian Rätsch details the botany, history, distribution, cultivation, and preparation and dosage of more than 400 psychoactive plants. He discusses their ritual and medicinal usage, cultural artifacts made from these plants, and works of art that either represent or have been inspired by them. The author begins with 168 of the most well-known psychoactives–such as cannabis, datura, and papaver–then presents 133 lesser known substances as well as additional plants known as “legal highs,” plants known only from mythological contexts and literature, and plant products that include substances such as ayahuasca, incense, and soma. The text is lavishly illustrated with 797 color photographs–many of which are from the author’s extensive fieldwork around the world–showing the people, ceremonies, and art related to the ritual use of the world’s sacred psychoactives.

The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications 1st Table of contents:

1. What Are Psychoactive Plants?
2. The Use of Psychoactive Plants
3. Psychoactive Plants and Shamanic Consciousness
4. The Fear of Psychoactive Plants
5. The Study of Psychoactive Plants
6. Psychoactive Plants as Factors in the Development of Culture
7. The Psychoactive Plants
8. On the Structure of the Major Monographs
9. The Most Important Genera and Species from A to Z
10. Major Monographs
11. Little-Studied Psychoactive Plants
12. Minor Monographs
13. Reputed Psychoactive Plants
14. “Legal Highs”
15. Psychoactive Plants That Have Not Yet Been Identified
16. Psychoactive Fungi
17. The Archaeology of Entheogenic Mushroom Cults
18. Cultivating Mushrooms
19. The Genera and Species from A to Z
20. Purported Psychoactive Fungi
21. General Literature on Psychoactive Fungi
22. Psychoactive Products
23. Active Constituents Of Plants
24. Active Plant Constituents and Neurotransmitters
25. The Active Plant Constituents from A to Z
26. Botanical Taxonomy of Psychoactive Plants and Fungi
27. Footnotes
28. General Bibliography
29. Bibliographies

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