Concise Handbook of Psychoactive Herbs: Medicinal Herbs for Treating Psychological and Neurological Problems
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Find out how plant-derived drugs react with your brain to produce either healing or harmful results!
The Concise Handbook of Psychoactive Herbs will give you a better understanding of herbal products that have psychological effects. The book explores how they work, how effective they are, and what is known about their safety. Geared towards non-specialist professionals and curious individuals, this guide shows how herbal preparations can affect the brain, mental state, and behavior of a user and includes treatment methods, tables, illustrations, a glossary, and a bibliography.
The Concise Handbook of Psychoactive Herbs contains chapters on several types of psychoactive herbs, including:
stimulants
cognition-enhancers
sedatives
painkillers
hallucinogens
With the Concise Handbook of Psychoactive Herbs, you’ll examine the effects of psychoactive drugs on the nervous system—both positive and negative. Each chapter discusses a type of herbal medicine, its action on the brain and other systems of the body, side effects, and the potential for addiction. The book closely examines possible drug interactions with prescription medications and emphasizes the caution you need to take when using herbal health products.
In the Concise Handbook of Psychoactive Herbs you will learn about the psychoactive actions of such medicinal plants as:
coffee
tobacco
cannabis
ginseng
chamomile
cocoa
opium poppy
peyote
gingko biloba
ginseng
chamomile
cocoa
opium poppy
peyote
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The chapter on yage (ayahuasca) is inaccurate, confusing smokable dmt with ayahuasca. Some research would have revealed the extensive healing claims for the tea ayahuasca, which sometimes contains negligible amounts of dmt yet produces effects. Thousands of years of use and currently thousands of indigenous and western users have produced a large volume of literature on this substance, a brief “google” search would have revealed many sources Dr. Spinella could have used to gain a more accurate understanding of yage than the shallow and inaccurate treatment he gave in his book. The effects of the tea yage do not wear off in 15 minutes, it lasts 1-2 hours; smokable dmt wears off in 15 minutes. I did not read the rest of the book, but this level of scholarship did not inspire me to. I hate to see misinformation being given to professionals, this chapter should be revised.
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Concise Handbook of Psychoactive Herbs: Medicinal Herbs for Treating Psychological and Neurological Problems