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

By: Publication details: Rochester, Vt. : Park Street Press, c2005.Description: 942 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9780892819782 (hardcover)
Other title:
  • Psychoactive plants
Uniform titles:
  • Enzyklopädie der psychoaktiven Pflanzen. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • REF 615788 22 RAT
Online resources: Summary: "The most comprehensive guide to the botany, history, distribution, and cultivation of all known psychoactive plants"--Provided by publisher.
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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 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.

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