Newsgroups: alt.drugs
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>

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