The encyclopedia of psychoactive plants : ethnopharmacology and its applications

Rätsch, Christian 1957- (Author).

Summary: "The most comprehensive guide to the botany, history, distribution, and cultivation of all known psychoactive plants"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 0892819782 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9780892819782 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
942 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Publisher: Rochester, Vermont. : Park Street Press, 2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 878-907) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 identified -- Psychoactive 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.