This definitive book represents the life's work of the late Richard Evans Schultes, one of the fathers of modern ethnobotany and the greatest plant explorer of our age, including nearly 50 years of field research in the Northwest Amazon.
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The destruction of the Amazon forests continues, and with them an unknown number of plant species and the traditional knowledge of their medicinal uses. Schultes (biology, Harvard U.) and Raffauf (pharmacognosy and medicinal chemistry, Northeastern U.) combine nearly half a century of field research in this least studied part of the Amazonian drainage area to document and describe 1,479 species and variants, representing 596 genera in 145 plant families. Of these, half have had little or no prior investigation of their chemical and pharmacological properties. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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The late Richard Evans Schultes, Jeffrey Professor of Biology and Director of the Botanical Museum of Harvard University (Emeritus), was a plant explorer, ethnobotanist, and conservationist. He was known as the world's authority on medicinal, narcotic, and hallucinogenic plants in the New World. He was the author of numerous books, as well as the translator of The Journals of Hipólito Ruiz. Awards for Richard Schultes Linnean Society Gold Medal
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This is a large family comprising over 250 genera and at least 2500 species, mainly tropical but occurring also in Australia, the Mediterranean region and the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South America, Harvard Univ, West Indies, Rio Apaporis, Rio Negro, Planta Med, Field Mus, Livraria Classica, Shushufindi Siona, Brazilian Amazon, Rio Pastaza, Mayna Jivaro, Flora Medicinal de Colombia, Braz Filho, New World, Rio Guainia, Shushufindi Secoya, South Africa, Makunas of the Rio, Tetrahedron Lett, Valley of Sibundoy, Central America, Kew Bull, New York, Old World New!
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- Dictionary of Economic Plants by J. C. Uphof on 8 pages
- The Botany and Chemistry of Hallucinogens by Richard Evans Schultes on 6 pages
- New Plant Sources for Drugs and Foods from the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium by Siri von Reis on page 132, page 200, and page 320
- The shaman and the jaguar: A study of narcotic drugs among the Indians of Colombia by Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff in Back Matter
- The Cocaine Eaters by Brian Moser in Back Matter
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