Ethnobotany and Useful Plants
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Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants
by Bradford Angier  Publisher Comments From amaranth to yucca, complete information for identifying over a hundred native plants and their traditional medicinal uses....
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Sastun : My Apprenticeship With Maya Healer (94 Edition)
by Rosita Arvigo Publisher Comments The compelling drama of American herbologist Rosita Arvigo's quest to preserve the knowledge of Don Elijio Panti, one of the last surviving and most respected traditional healers in the rainforest of Belize....
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The Earthwise Herbal: A Complete Guide to Old World Medicinal Plants
by Matthew Wood Publisher Comments Noted herbalist Matthew Wood brings twenty-five years of clinical experience to this comprehensive book on medicinal plants. The first in a two-volume set, The Earthwise Herbal profiles Old World plants (volume two will treat American plants). Organized...
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Dangerous Harvest: Drug Plants and the Transformation of Indigenous Landscapes
by Michael K Steinberg Publisher Comments Throughout history almost all traditional indigenous societies have used psychoactive substances derived from plants in religious and healing rituals. Once such plants are adopted by outsiders for profane use, the often impoverished peasant farmers who...
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Pharmako/Gnosis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path
by Dale Pendell Publisher Comments "Pendell's ongoing subjects are the botanical allies 'humans have always associated with, and the pharmakon,'the drug that is both poison and cure. A poet, ethno-botanist and amateur chemist, he's the best writer on drugs to come along since the late...
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Western Medicinal Plants & Herbs
by Steven Foster Publisher Comments This guide offers the most comprehensive treatment of medicinal plants of western North America ever published. It includes five hundred color photographs, information on where the plants are found and their medicinal uses, and an index to medical topics...
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Footprints of the Forest: Ka'apor Ethnobotany--The Historical Ecology of Plant Utilization by an Amazonian People (Biology and Resource Management Series)
by William Balee Publisher Comments "Footprints of the Forest" is the clearest and most comprehensive account to date of the relationship between and Amazonian people and their botanical environment. Based on Balee's ten years of ethnographic and botanical research among the Ka'aper...
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Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred Healing, & Hallucinogenic Powers
by Richard Schultes Publisher Comments 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...
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Medicinal Plants of the Desert and Canyon West
by Michael Moore Publisher Comments Two bestselling handbooks and field guides for identifying, collecting, and preparing wild plants for health and healing. Michael Moore draws on his extensive background in botanical medicines and pharmacological sources, as well as Indian and Spanish...
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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Fore
by Mark J Plotkin 
Publisher Comments For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and more than a quarter of medicines found on pharmacy shelves...
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Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca
by Ralph Metzner Publisher Comments Many physicians and psychologists have acknowledged that Ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic Amazonian plant mixture, can allow access to spiritual dimensions of consciousness.??In "Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca," Ralph Metzner provides an exploration by...
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Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West
by Michael Moore Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-324)....
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The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolut
by Terence Mckenna Publisher Comments Cited by the L.A. Weekly as "the culture's foremost spokesman for the psychedelic experience," Terrence McKenna is an underground legend as a brilliant raconteur, adventurer, and expert on the experiential use of mind-altering plants.In these essays...
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Forest of Visions : Ayahuasca, Amazonian Spirituality, and the Santo Daime Tradition (99 Edition)
by Larsen Publisher Comments The story of Santo Daime--a new religion that blends elements of Christianity with older Amazonian indigenous spiritual practices--and the ecologically sound and spiritually centered utopian community it has inspired. 30 photos....
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Leaves in Myth, Magic and Medicine
by Alice Thomas Vitale Synopsis Truly original and unique, Leaves is the visionary life work of Alice Thoms Vitale who has devoted almost thirty years to researching and creating authentic portraits of living leaves. This historical herbal is an appreciative salute to the wonder...
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Seeds of Change: A Quincentennial Commemoration
by Herman J Viola Book News Annotation The companion volume to the most comprehensive of the Smithsonian's Quincentenary programs, the National Museum of Natural History's' "Seeds of Change" exhibition (October 1991 through April 1993). Informed, accessible, and beautifully illustrated...
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Encyclopedia of herbs & their uses
by Deni Bown Publisher Comments The definitive guide to the identification, cultivation, and uses of 1,000 herbs. The Herb Society of America's Encyclopedia of Herbs and their Uses is the most authoritative illustrated encyclopedia of herbs yet produced. It covers over 1000 herbs grown...
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Herbs
by Lesley Bremness Publisher Comments Smithsonian Handbooks are the most visually appealing guides on the natural world in the book marketplace. Featuring more than 500 full-color illustrations and photographs, along with detailed annotations, Smithsonian Handbooks make identification easy...
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Herbs for Use and for Delight
by Daniel J Foley Publisher Comments A selection of 61 of the finest articles from The Herbalist: Tastes in Tea; Spice Caravans; The Significance of Botanical Pesticides; and many more. Personal accounts describe every aspect of history, cultivation and enjoyment of herbs....
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Instant Guide to Medicinal Plants
by Pamela Forey Synopsis Compact reference guides to animals and nature permit quick and easy identification of nearly 200 species. Each pocket guide contains a unique coding system designed for instant access with detailed and accurate full-color illustrations. Entries are...
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