The encyclopedia of psychoactive plants : ethnopharmacology and its applications /
Rätsch, Christian, 1957-
The encyclopedia of psychoactive plants : ethnopharmacology and its applications / Psychoactive plants Christian Rätsch ; foreword by Albert Hofmann ; translated by John R. Baker with assistance from Annabel Lee and Cornelia Ballent. - Rochester, Vt. : Park Street Press, c2005. - 942 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
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 Cultures
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
Rutative Psychoactive Plants
"Legal Highs"
Psychoactive plants that Not Yet Identified
Psychoactive Fungi
The archaeology of entheogenic mushroom cults
Cultivating mushrooms
Psychoactive Mushrooms
On the Archaeology of Entheogenic Mushroom Cults
On Mushroom Cultivation
The Genera and Species from A to Z
General Literature on Psychoactive Mushrooms
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 Mushrooms
Includes bibliographical references (p. 878-907) and index.
"The most comprehensive guide to the botany, history, distribution, and cultivation of all known psychoactive plants"--Provided by publisher.
9780892819782 (hardcover)
Psychotropic plants--Encyclopedias.
Ethopharmacology--Encyclopedias.
REF 615788 / RAT
The encyclopedia of psychoactive plants : ethnopharmacology and its applications / Psychoactive plants Christian Rätsch ; foreword by Albert Hofmann ; translated by John R. Baker with assistance from Annabel Lee and Cornelia Ballent. - Rochester, Vt. : Park Street Press, c2005. - 942 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
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 Cultures
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
Rutative Psychoactive Plants
"Legal Highs"
Psychoactive plants that Not Yet Identified
Psychoactive Fungi
The archaeology of entheogenic mushroom cults
Cultivating mushrooms
Psychoactive Mushrooms
On the Archaeology of Entheogenic Mushroom Cults
On Mushroom Cultivation
The Genera and Species from A to Z
General Literature on Psychoactive Mushrooms
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 Mushrooms
Includes bibliographical references (p. 878-907) and index.
"The most comprehensive guide to the botany, history, distribution, and cultivation of all known psychoactive plants"--Provided by publisher.
9780892819782 (hardcover)
Psychotropic plants--Encyclopedias.
Ethopharmacology--Encyclopedias.
REF 615788 / RAT