《Pharmako/Poeia, Revised and Updated》是2010年Random House US出版的圖書，作者是Dale Pendell。
基本介紹
- 外文名：Pharmako/Poeia, Revised and Updated
- 作者：Dale Pendell
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9781556438059
內容簡介
This paperback edition has a new introduction by the authorand updated content.
This is the first volume of North Atlantic Books’ updatedpaperback edition of Dale Pendell’s Pharmako trilogy, anencyclopedic study of the history and uses of psychoactive plantsand related synthetics first published between 1995 and 2005. Thebooks form an interrelated suite of works that provide the readerwith a unique, reliable, and often personal immersion in thismedically, culturally, and spiritually fascinating subject. Allthree books are beautifully designed and illustrated, and arewritten with unparalleled authority, erudition, playfulness, andrange.
Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft includes anew introduction by the author and as in previous editions focuseson familiar psychoactive plant-derived substances and relatedsynthetics, ranging from the licit (tobacco, alcohol) to theillicit (cannabis, opium) and the exotic (absinthe, salviadivinorum, nitrous oxide). Each substance is explored in detail,not only with information on its history, pharmacology,preparation, and cultural and esoteric correspondences, but alsothe subtleties of each plant’s effect on consciousness in a waythat only poets can do. The whole concoction is sprinkled withabundant quotations from famous writers, creating a literary brewas intoxicating as its subject.
The Pharmako series is continued in Pharmako/Dynamis (focusing onstimulants and empathogens) and Pharmako/Gnosis (which addressespsychedelics and shamanic plants).
