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- From: paulb@tradex.demon.co.uk (paulb)
- Subject: Interesting book - 'Plants of the Gods'
- Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 16:54:53 +0000
- Message-ID: <780425693snz@tradex.demon.co.uk>
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- I bought a great book a while ago -
-
- 'Plants Of The Gods - Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers'
-
- by Richard Evans Schultes and Albert Hoffmann (yes, *that* Albert Hoffmann)
- which could be of interest to many of you lot...
-
- It is mainly about the ritualistic uses, history, mythology and effects of
- the various sacred plants, as well as brief descriptions of the chemistry
- of their active ingredients. It also includes a plant lexicon, and
- overviews of plant usage, including uses of hallucinogens in medicine.
- It has many illustrations.
-
- It features chapters on:
- Fly Agaric
- Henbane
- Deadly Nightshade
- Mandrake
- Cannabis
- Ergot
- Datura
- Iboga
- Yopo
- Ayahuasca
- Floripondio
- Peyote
- various fungi - Conocybe, Panaeolus, Psilocybe, Stropharia
- San Pedro
- and others.
-
- My copy was published in 1992 by:
- Healing Arts Press
- One Park Street
- Rochester, Vermont 05767
- USA
-
- The price on the cover is $19.95
-
- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
- Schultes, Richard Evans.
- Plants of the Gods : their sacred, healing, and hallucinogenic powers /
- Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hoffmann.
- Originally published : McGraw-Hill, New York, 1979
- ISBN 0-89281-406-3
- 1. Hallucinogenic plants. 2. Hallucinogenic plants - Utilization.
- 3. Ethnobotony. I. Hofmann, Albert, 1906- II. Title
-
- Herbalism/Anthropology
-
- My disclaimer (I quote from the book):
- 'Caution: This book is not intended as a guide to the use of hallucinogenic
- plants. Its purpose is to offer scientific, historical, and cultural
- documentation concerning a group of plants, which are or have been of
- importance to many societies. Ingestion of some of these plants or plant
- products may be dangerous.'
-
- Paul
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