books about: pharmako (teachers potions poisons)

books about: pharmako

books:

Pharmako/Dynamis: Stimulating Plants, Potions, & Herbcraft (Pharmako Volii)

3 reviews
Dale Pendell

Mercury House, 2002

Stimulating plants....
Since my own interests include gardening, herbs, plant poisons, and natural pharmaceuticals such as caffeine, I quickly decided Dale Pendell's PHARMAKO-DYNAMIS and PHARMAKO-POEIA were must-read books for me. These books are also for historians, drug counselors, people who write laws associated with drug use, those concerned with the impoverishment of countries invaded by world-based ...

Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft

11 reviews
Dale Pendell

Mercury House, 1994

Wonderful overview of medicinal plants....
PHARMAKO-DYNAMIS and PHARMAKO-POEIA by Dale Pendell contain much of interest to gardeners, artists, historians, drug counselors, and drug users. Pendell suggests that how a plant substance is defined (poison, drug, medicine) depends on the dosage, length of use, and intent of the user. In other words, if plant-based drugs are "abused" the problem lies not in our plants but in our selves. He says ...

Pharmako/Gnosis : Plant Teachers and the Poison Path, Volume III

4 reviews
Dale Pendell

Mercury House, 2004

Essential Reading, a Modern Classic
"Pharmako/Gnosis" is the crown jewel of Pendell's superb trilogy, and indispensable reading for anyone interested in psychedelics, botany, anthropology, and earnest inquiry into the nature of existence. Covering LSD, mescaline and peyote, DMT, psilocybin mushrooms, esoterica like Syrian rue and even xenon inhalation, as well as other signposts on what he calls "the Poison Path," Pendell continues ...