Narcotic plants

Emboden, W. (1972). Narcotic Plants. New York, NY. Revised edition, 1979. 

Shamans, as well as other persons, use certain narcotic plants in order to find lost objects. In some cases teonanacatl is used, while in others a seed called semilla de la Virgen is used. Hierba Maria is similarly used. The Zapotecs use a plant called bador , the little children, and the Aztecs used narcotic plants in a similar manner(Johnson 1939a). 

Emboden, Narcotic Plants (2° Edition revised and enlarged), 1979 93-94, AMENDED Reisfield, SIDA, Contributions to Botany, 1993 15(3) 349-366. 

Even in the second edition of his book on the botany of psychedelics, the ethnobotanist William Emboden retained the title Narcotic Plants. These psychedelic plants and related compounds are quite the opposite of narcotics unlike opiates, they are basically stimulating, and they are non-addictive. (Psychedelics also differ from true stimulants they increase lucidity but not, as with amphetamine, at the expense of psychological warmth.)... 

In the seventeenth century, nutmeg became an important article in the spice trade, which the Dutch monopolized for a long while with their naval superiority. "So precious were nutmegs, writes the botanist William Em-boden in Narcotic Plants,... 

Jonathan Ott includes Amanita muscana and Amanita pan-therina in his Hallucinogenic Plants of North America [Berkeley, California Wingbow Press, 1976 revised edition 1979). Descriptions of uses of Amanita muscaria will be found in Narcotic Plants of the Old World, Used in Rituals and Everyday Life An Anthology of Texts from Ancient Times tO the Present, edited by Hedwig Schleiiier (Monticello, New York Lubrecht Cramer, 1979). In SOnia Mushroom of Immortality (New York ... 

Schlieffer, H. (1973). Sacred narcotic plants of the New World Indians. New York Hafner Press. 

Datura meteloides, Narcotic Plant Used by the Ancient Aztecs, Zunis, and California Indians as an Intoxicant and Hypnotic. Natural Size. 

Pope, H.G. (1969). Tabernanthe iboga, an African narcotic plant of social importance. Economic Botany, 23 174-184. 

Narcotic plants are used primarily to induce sleep and are used to treat insonmia and in anaesthesia 10). In South Africa the Zulu use the powder bark of Tecomaria capensis (Bignoiuaceae) to make infusions that are said to induce sleep 39). There are many examples of plants used for similar purposes,... 

Emboden, WA. 1979. Narcotic Plants. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. Macmillan Riblishing Co., New Ifork. 

In 1970, Ecuadorian researcher R Naranjo published the first full-length book on ayakuasca, Ayahuasca Religion y Medicina, written in Spanish (Naranjo 1970) and later pubhshed in a revised edition (Naranjo 1983). Unfortunately, this excellent study has not been translated, and has thus had little impact beyond specialists in ethnopharmacology. In 1972 three books appeared which drew further attention to ayahuasca M. Dobkin de Rios The Visionary Vine (Dobkin de Rios 1972), Emboden s Narcotic Plants (Emboden 197 23) and P.T. Furst s Flesh of the... 

After all these developments in Gas Chromatography and its hyphenated methods, these techniques have been finding many applications in various sample analysis in different real samples such as environmental, biological, foods, drugs, narcotics, plants, soils, sediments and the other samples. 

Papaver somniferum (Papaveraceae) is a biennial originating in the southeastern area of Europe, and is cultivated as the material for opium ( A-hen in Japanese) and for morphine. Papaver somniferum is a typical narcotic plant, and is cultivated under strict control in a limited number of countries, including Pakistan, Bulgaria, Turkey, Australia, and Japan. 

Schleeffer, H., Narcotic Plants of the Old World, Lubrecht, Monti-cello, NY, 1979. 

Emboden, W. A. Narcotic Plants of the World. Macmillan, New York 1979 Schultes, R. E., Hofmann, A. Plants of the Gods. McGraw-Hill, New York 1980... 

Emboden,W. The Stimulants. Narcotic Plants, rev. ed. Macmillan New York, 1979. 

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