ABSTRACT
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
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