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.

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

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Enzyklopädie der psychoaktiven Pflanzen. English
Main Author: Rätsch, Christian, 1957-
Language:English
Language of the Original:
German
Published: Rochester, Vt. : Park Street Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Psychotropic plants > Encyclopedias.
Ethnopharmacology > Encyclopedias.
Plants, Medicinal > English.
Psychotropic Drugs.
Encyclopedias.
Genre:
Encyclopedias.
Online Access:
Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:942 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Variant Title:
Psychoactive plants.
Format: Book
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 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.