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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... remain indifferent . Any narrow specialization was foreign to him . He could quote flawlessly in foreign languages without any hesitation and marshal facts from all four corners of the world and all periods of history . It will be ...
... remain indifferent . Any narrow specialization was foreign to him . He could quote flawlessly in foreign languages without any hesitation and marshal facts from all four corners of the world and all periods of history . It will be ...
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... remain unexplained which likewise are of the utmost importance to the life of the individual : the varying reactions of different persons , not only to narcotics in general , but also to chemical and other influences , and the fact that ...
... remain unexplained which likewise are of the utmost importance to the life of the individual : the varying reactions of different persons , not only to narcotics in general , but also to chemical and other influences , and the fact that ...
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... remain unexplained . The hypothesis has been put forward that a distinct kind of energy exists which en- velops and governs the whole of physical life . This we may call Vital Energy . I include in this expression the sum of all the ...
... remain unexplained . The hypothesis has been put forward that a distinct kind of energy exists which en- velops and governs the whole of physical life . This we may call Vital Energy . I include in this expression the sum of all the ...
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... remain in every respect a mystery . The attempt to bring forward the ductless glands as an ex- planation must be rejected because of its too limited interpretation of the personality . It constitutes an equation with so many unknown ...
... remain in every respect a mystery . The attempt to bring forward the ductless glands as an ex- planation must be rejected because of its too limited interpretation of the personality . It constitutes an equation with so many unknown ...
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... remain true : " The formation of celestial bodies , the causes of their movements , and in short , the origin of the entire Cosmos , will be explained sooner than the mechanism of the creation of a plant or a caterpillar . " The data ...
... remain true : " The formation of celestial bodies , the causes of their movements , and in short , the origin of the entire Cosmos , will be explained sooner than the mechanism of the creation of a plant or a caterpillar . " The data ...
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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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