Phantastica: A Classic Survey on the Use and Abuse of Mind-Altering PlantsInner Traditions / Bear & Co, 1998 - 304 pagini Long out of print, this is a landmark study on narcotic and psychedelic substances by a world-renowned pharmacologist and toxicologist • The first book to bring non-judgmental scientific insights to the use of drugs around the world • Provides detailed information on all major drugs of the time, including opium, cocaine, heroin, cannabis, peyote, fly agaric, henbane, datura, alcohol, kava, betel, coffee, tea, cocoa, and tobacco • A book credited with starting an era of ethnobotany that continues to the present day The publication of Louis Lewin's Phantastica in 1924 began an era of ethnobotany that is still flourishing today. Until Lewin, books on the use of drugs were purely works of anthropology, concerned with how people used these plants, rather than how the plants produced their famous effects. Lewin, a world-renowned pharmacologist and toxicologist, was fascinated by both, and Phantastica was the first book to bring scientific insights to a survey of the use of drugs around the world. Lewin traveled extensively and acquired an astonishing variety of knowledge, reflected in this book, which provides detailed information on all major drugs of the time, including opium, cocaine, heroin, cannabis, peyote, fly agaric, henbane, datura, alcohol, kava, betel, coffee, tea, cocoa, and, of course, tobacco. For thirty years ethnobotanists have bemoaned the fact that Phantastica has been impossible to find; now this landmark work is once again available. |
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... Burwood Distributed to the book trade in New Zealand by Tandem Press , Auckland Distributed to the book trade in South Africa by Alternative Books , Ferndale CONTENTS FOREWORD PREFACE INTRODUCTION GENERAL REMARKS MOTIVES FOR THE USE.
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... South American plant said to be used for the treatment of senile paralysis . We now know that this plant contains alkaloids with monomine oxidase inhibiting properties and excita- tory action on the nervous system . This was the last ...
... South American plant said to be used for the treatment of senile paralysis . We now know that this plant contains alkaloids with monomine oxidase inhibiting properties and excita- tory action on the nervous system . This was the last ...
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... South America are said to have an intuitive ap- preciation of their own defectiveness , and to be ever ready to rid them- selves of such melancholy feelings by intense excitement , i.e. through the use of kola and similar drugs . Such ...
... South America are said to have an intuitive ap- preciation of their own defectiveness , and to be ever ready to rid them- selves of such melancholy feelings by intense excitement , i.e. through the use of kola and similar drugs . Such ...
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... South Brittany the air is laden with salt to such an extent that some persons are attacked after a few days by a painful affection similar to colic . After three to eight days these symp- toms vanish , never to appear again . There is ...
... South Brittany the air is laden with salt to such an extent that some persons are attacked after a few days by a painful affection similar to colic . After three to eight days these symp- toms vanish , never to appear again . There is ...
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Cuprins
NARCOTIC SUBSTANCES | 23 |
CLASSIFICATION OF NARCOTIC AND STIMULATING DRUGS | 26 |
MENTAL SEDATIVES | 27 |
The Consumption of Opium and Morphia at the Present Day | 39 |
Morphinism | 45 |
The Observable Internal Process in Morphinists and Opiumists | 49 |
General Questions Connected with Morphinism | 53 |
Measures against the Extension of Morphinism | 56 |
NITROUS OXIDE | 171 |
SOPORIFICS | 172 |
CHLORAL | 174 |
VERONAL | 176 |
PARALDEHYDE | 177 |
SULPHONAL | 178 |
Bromural | 179 |
Where and How KavaKava is Drunk | 180 |
DIONINE HEROIN EUCODAL CHLORODYNE | 60 |
Dionine | 61 |
Eucodal | 62 |
COCAINISM | 63 |
Effects of the Habitual Use of Coca and Cocaine | 65 |
Cocainomania and its Forms | 67 |
HALLUCINATING SUBSTANCES | 75 |
ANHALONIUM LEWINII | 80 |
Its Uses | 82 |
Hallucinations due to Peyotl | 84 |
CANNABIS INDICA | 89 |
The Extension of Cannabinism in Africa | 92 |
The Use of Hemp in Asia Minor and Asia | 95 |
The Effects of Indian Hemp | 97 |
AGARICUS MUSCARIUS | 102 |
Character of Agaric Inebriety | 103 |
SOLANACEAE | 107 |
Henbane Hyoscyamus niger | 108 |
Hyoscyamus muticus Hyoscyamus albus | 109 |
Datura arborea | 113 |
Duboisia hopwoodii | 115 |
BANISTERIA CAAPI | 116 |
GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS | 119 |
THE LOCO HERBS | 120 |
IMEBRIANTIA | 122 |
Chronic Alcoholism | 125 |
Alcoholism and Heredity | 126 |
Individual Toxic Disturbances in Alcoholism | 131 |
A Glance at Alcohol in the Past | 132 |
Alcoholic Beverages | 138 |
Temperance and Abstinence | 148 |
Conclusion | 159 |
LIQUOR HOFFMANNI | 161 |
ETHER | 165 |
BENZINE | 169 |
Preparation and Use of KavaKava | 182 |
The Active Substances of Kava and their Action | 185 |
KANNA | 187 |
EXCITANTIA | 189 |
CAMPHOR | 190 |
BETEL | 192 |
History and Mode of Chewing Betel | 194 |
Effect of BetelChewing | 197 |
KAT | 201 |
CAFFEINE PLANTS | 203 |
COFFEE | 205 |
Cultivation and Use | 209 |
Effects of Coffee | 211 |
TEA | 216 |
THE KOLA NUT | 223 |
Effects of Kola | 226 |
MATÉ | 229 |
ILEX CASSINE | 231 |
PASTA GUARANA | 233 |
COCOA | 234 |
TOBACCO | 237 |
Its Modes of Employment | 241 |
Chewing | 245 |
Smoking | 247 |
The Conquest of Mankind by Tobacco | 249 |
Its Good and Evil Effects | 253 |
Physical Disturbances due to Tobacco | 258 |
Substitutes for Tobacco | 262 |
PARICA | 265 |
ARSENIC | 266 |
MERCURY | 270 |
CONCLUSION | 271 |
NOTES | 274 |
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