Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers
World-renowned anthropologist and ethnopharmacologist Christian Ratsch provides the latest scientific updates to this classic work on psychoactive flora by two eminent researchers.\ • Numerous new and rare color photographs complement the completely revised and updated text.\ • Explores the uses of hallucinogenic plants in shamanic rituals throughout the world.\ • Cross-referenced by plant, illness, preparation, season of collection, and chemical constituents.\ • First edition sold 33,000...
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The use of hallucinogenic plants has been a part of human experience for millennia, yet modern Western societies have only recently become aware of the significance that these plants have had in shaping the history of diverse cultures. Capable of bringing human beings in closer touch with the spirit worlds, hallucinogenic plants have long been venerated as aids to mental health and as the sacred connection to the mystical. The authors of this definitive book examine the cross-cultural ceremonial and ritual use of many hallucinogenic substances. Profusely illustrated, this book contains an extensively researched plant lexicon, providing common and botanical names, history, ethnography, preparation, chemical components, usage in healing, and effects for 91 hallucinogenic plants. Shamans Drum This superbly illustrated, encyclopedic volume provides a much needed, well-balanced scientific perspective on the use of hallucinogenic plants. Richard Evans Schultes, the worlds most eminent ethnobotanist, and Albert Hofmann, the former research director at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, emphasize the need for continued education about both the potential benefits and the inherent dangers involved in the use of hallucinogens.
Plants of the Gods Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers Preface Introduction 1. What are Plant Hallucinogens 2. The Plant Kingdom 3. Phytochemical Research on Sacred Plants 4. Geography of Usage and Botanical Range 5. Plant Lexicon 6. Users of Hallucinogenic Plants 7. Overview of Plant Use 8. Fourteen Major Hallucinogenic Plants 9. Mainstay of the Heavens 10. The Hexing Herbs 11. The Nectar of Delight 12. St. Anthony's Fire 13. Holy Flower of the North Star 14. Guide to the Ancestors 15. Beans of the Hekula Spirit 16. Seeds of Civilization 17. The Magic Drink of the Amazon 18. Ayahuasca Analogs 19 Trumpets of the Angels 20. The Tracks of the Little Deer 21. Little Flowers of the Gods 22. Diviner's Sage 23. Cactus of the Four Winds 24. Vines of the Serpent 25. Semen of the Sun 26. Gateway to Dreamtime 27. Chemical Structures of Hallucinogens 28. Uses of Hallucinogens on Medicine Epilogue Picture Credits Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
\ Shaman's Drum"This superbly illustrated, encyclopedic volume provides a much needed, well-balanced scientific perspective on the use of hallucinogenic plants. Richard Evans Schultes, the worlds most eminent ethnobotanist, and Albert Hofmann, the former research director at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, emphasize the need for continued education about both the potential benefits and the inherent dangers involved in the use of hallucinogens."\ \ \ \ \ Journal of Scientific Exploration"It contains an incredible amount of rigorous and fascinating information in a highly accessible, beautiful, and compelling format."\ \ \ Whole Earth Review"Richard Evans Schultes has been the nexus of almost everything interesting and supportive concerned with economic and cultural uses of plants. Plants of the Gods gives precise and illuminating portraits of the many peoples of the Earth who pay homage to and gain insights with the aid of psychedelic plants: an exquisite, thoroughly scholarly book."\ \ \ \ \ Michael R. Aldrich"Carefully researched, beautifully written, and abundantly illustrated, this book reminds us that the use of hallucinogenic plants has been a fundamental part of the human experience for millennia."\ \ \ \ \ From the Publisher\ "Richard Evans Schultes has been the nexus of almost everything interesting and supportive concerned with economic and cultural uses of plants. Plants of the Gods gives precise and illuminating portraits of the many peoples of the Earth who pay homage to and gain insights with the aid of psychedelic plants: an exquisite, thoroughly scholarly book."\ \ \ \ \ Whole Earth ReviewRichard Evans Schultes has been the nexus of almost everything interesting and supportive concerned with economic and cultural uses of plants. Plants of the Gods gives precise and illuminating portraits of the many peoples of the Earth who pay homage to and gain insights with the aid of psychedelic plants: an exquisite, thoroughly scholarly book.\ \ \ \ \ Shamans DrumThis superbly illustrated, encyclopedic volume provides a much needed, well-balanced scientific perspective on the use of hallucinogenic plants. Richard Evans Schultes, the worlds most eminent ethnobotanist, and Albert Hofmann, the former research director at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, emphasize the need for continued education about both the potential benefits and the inherent dangers involved in the use of hallucinogens.\ \ \ \ \ Journal of EthnobiologyA truly exellent book.\ \
