The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications

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I feel so thankful to have ownership of any material concerning herbs so my first inclination is to give "The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications" a 5-star rating (just out of gratitude for the information's accessibility). At the same time, the manual should have been written much more tightly. It also desperately needs to be better organized.

Don't let the bulky size of this manual fool you. While so very many different herbs are listed - way too many of them do not adequately satisfy the claims of the title (as many herbs listed are not at all psychoactive -- but are much more appropriate for making a relaxing cup of tea).

Regarding the manual's organization: Instead of arranging the writing, after the header of each individual herb, the content merely jumps around from one willy-nilly topic to another and back again. There is no obvious order to make finding information easy {Example, tips on "growing" or "herb use" is spread sporadically throughout the pages instead of categorized under "gardening" or "uses"}. Also - the directions for dosage, when given, are not always clear or concise, if given at all. I also longed for better/more detailed photographs while reading this manual - so I used the Internet as an image subsidy-type resource.

Positives? I loved it when Ratsch included Shamanic uses (listing what tribe used the herb being studied and what was the plant's history, etc.). There are many other good things about this book -- but if you're on a budget, I'd spend my money on something that more specifically targets your interests -- as this seemed like a more generalized herb manual, over all.


An exhaustive review of the psychoactive plants
Cristian Raetsch is an author much famous one with great academic merit. It has written the numerous books on the psychoactive plants alone or with other producers. In this encyclopedia it generates and immense and exhausting review of all the phants with the psychoactive property that are today kow. The book is divided in the sections comprised all the reigns of plant, comprised the fungi and some secretions animals (as an example the bufo of the rospo). Every understood it includes it all the academic particular that you will find in all the botanical book, like where the growss of the plant, in that be etc, but also in an immense review of cultural use or ritualistic. Usually, you will obtain very more than you would preview, as an example a champion of discography for use of the hemp, publicity on the psychactives used within he beyond, lore and myths fold around to the plants and their use they etc of more common natural regulation. The book moreover includes the information of the uptodate ones over in order not knowing the plants and the potions with the psychoactive actions like kykeon, some and the haoma, comprised the customers it details you of all the authorative theories of knowing and the opinion of the authours. The book is much easy one to read and is full of the great illustrations of quality much high one. It is moreover full of the boxes colored them of the information. If you have a book from this literature or migliaia, you must have this book!


A MUST for any herbalist and/or ethnobotanist
They are a certifyd Herbalist matrix that I collect always the information in my field. In order to earn my degree and to satisfy my search for information personal that I have read beyond 100 books R-with regard to the modern and historical use of the grass. This book is pure gold, not only for the relative druggist information, but for the knowledge/wisdom historical and spiritoso it communicates. That is a book for all the herbalist that it tries to understand the history of their trade. IT READS THIS BOOK!!!!


What can one say?
This is THE reference work on Psychoactive Plants. Christian Raetsch gives all of the necessary information needed to work in this area and leaves it to the reader to decide for themselves.


A Truly Comprehensive Guide to the Topic
This encyclopedia contains much of what one would be looking for in researching the topic of psychoactive plants and their cultural relevance. The reader is provided with a wealth of biochemical, botanical, and ethnological information. The presentation, featuring large, beautiful color photos, and well-constructed diagrams, makes this book an especially attractive resource to own.


Most indepth book on this topic ever!!!
Since having this book i have been totally oveerwhelmed with infomation, i have started growing my own plants using the cultivation techniques discussed in this book. Amazing pictures and explains effects, dosage and preparation for practically every psychoactive substance on this planet as well as most synthetic substances.... "WORTH EVERY CENT" u'll be forever using this resource


excellent book that covers almost everything
this is an amazing reference book, it covers just about any psychoactive plant you could think of and gives an excellent coverage of knowlege about each plant. i would highly recommend it, as long as your not paying the recomended 125$ price tag


Fantastic resource
Fantastic, this magnificent encyclopedia largest and is detailed end here. A necessary edition unbelivably to the library of anyone interested to psychoactive plants


The Best Book Ever Made on Psychoactive Plants
This review will be short and to the point. Not there is single larger book on the psychoactive plants that this book. Ratsch has made a job narcotic. Its book is complete mind-bogglingly and exhausting. It strikes "Pharmacotheon" (Ott), "the plants of dii" (the Ratch, Hofmann and Schultes) or any other book that I have never seen that tried you of being one complete source of the information of the psychoactive plants. I am waiting for a book like this for the years. Not task that this book could possibly out-done for the decades. In the best one of the cases, we can only hope to see the books that they would be something like the information supplimentary regarding this book. If the information wished all on the psychoactive plants that you can possibly obtain in a book, this are that one and are definately worthy the evidently enormous modification of prices. I would not be I am strange if this book will be sold for many hundreds of the dollars if and when it is sold outside. We hope it is reprinted for a a lot, much time.


El libro que faltaba!!!!!
Anterioridad habían Christian Schultes of with of ofrecido of the que of the información of of does not increase of complementa y of the que of obra of of creado of Rätsch has


A lot of text but many unanswered questions
I do not take edition with Christian Ratsch. It is a prolific producer and someone with infuence in the world of ethnobotany. However, I wish to write one here important and honest review. This book is enormous. I know of no other worthy book to buy that one I contain altretante plants like this (respect to a mind that increases context). To this purpose, the book is highly important. There is moreover abundance of the photos that give one artistic quality to it. Hour for the quality - not the amount: I would have to say that the Christian is a man who ago to include the interests first the infuence metaphysical one has on the world and like the plants they help that function of life. The opinion is left with, benchè, is that the humanity in the first place has need of a method of the purist to the cactus, the fungi and the grass that changes its cognition. That is we while people are needing a platform before that we catch up for the sky. We not hardly have need of the information of minimal dosage and the description of the effects on a public shamanic or aborigine of immense public. We have need of the diagrams and the tables with the collection the information, the warnings, etc - in one context of the family, "in a contemporary context" one of the family could add. This book does not make that one. It aimed to elevate the wizard, the sorcerer, the Shaman, the explorer of qualche.cosa in the sense of chaotic experience. From one perspective doctor and I cannot reveal a solid source in order to write such words currently, it meaningfully is difettando of the responsibility. Like representative of someone plants of instruction to others, I must suggest still these words: Fire on the families and the contexts of the group. However, I wish to say that the job of the author wants the literature of without of doubt humanity of the subsidy because no other man has completed tai the jobs. If you have the additional cash you can benefit from it. I would recommend the reader personally to compare notes of this author to other authors. I can suggest - in the first place - a book that does not have nothing to make with the increase grass and preferibilmente to make them reference to David Hofmann of grass?


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Perfect
This book is absolutely essential for anyone interested in the topic of entheogens and their use/history. Buy it now!


Tons of great info!
That is large a heavy book with the tons and the tons of large Info. The relative astonishment how many different plants and plant extracts is covered. It supplies not only the good name and address on the substances chemistries that are found in all the several plants but moreover the several cultivations supply an pleasant amount of base information on all that have used those plants with towards the outside the ages. This book is an added welcome to my personal library:)


Takes the lead by far for entheogen reference compendiums
This is an unprecedentedly massive reference work centering on visionary plants. It's an order of magnitude larger than previous comprehensive entheogen reference works such as the High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs, Hofmann's Plants of the Gods, Ott's Pharmacotheon, and Stafford's Psychedelics Encyclopedia.


A comprehensive reference guide to psychoactive plants
Beyond to 7 pounds, this book is packed with the information! The first 700 pages of it are various profiles of an immense range of the plants and the psychoactive fungi -- comprised the active Info on their constituent ones, history, use and cultivation. The rest of the book is broken in two sections, important codes category of description in one of the chemical products and the put other to fire on mixtures of the plant and the residual leggendari as the load. That is above all a reference document, but it is more to entertain and complete that Pharmacotheon of the Ott. Is only main defect is coming to lack like effective guide of the identification. All the images are small, approximately 2"x relegated 2" and to the margins. While pepper mills with the own photos of the Ratsch that are not available elsewhere, are little botanical illustrations except some of the woodcuts historical commonly seen. Ratsch chooses gives a opinion to us complete of the information available rather than that is leaned towards the practical application. The plants as napello and the datura is pointed out like dangerous only in passing. The guide of reference of dosage in a generalized manner is rather vague. The fungi of salicifolia and the puffball of Heimia are included base on their effectiveness dictate to you -- with search that the contraddice. The test introduces all typically and it leaves it the reader until in order taking their own decisions well-educated. Ratsch makes a fascicola job superb that all the data currently available from the several sources and adds to it its own ones searches and understandings. And various of the greater part of the other books on the entheogens, moreover it covers the plants of the sedativo and the stimulant and even some of herbals the little psychoactive. Although it is the lack of illustrations, if bought a reference on the psychoactive plants that this is the book will wish.



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