The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications 978-1-59477-662-5, 1594776628
In the traditions of every culture, psychoactive plants--those known to transport the mind to other dimensions of consci
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English Pages 2346 Year 2005
Table of contents :
Content: Intro
Title Page
Acknowledgments
Contents
Foreword
Preface
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 IdentifiedPsychoactive 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
Footnotes
General Bibliography
Bibliographies
Periodicals
About the Author
About the Inner Traditions
Books of Related Interest
Copyright
