Salvia Divinorum: Shamanic Plant Medicine [Hardcover]

Shaahin Cheyene (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 8, 2006

Salvia Divinorum is a powerful shamanic plant medicine traditionally used by Mexican Curranderos (folk healers) for healing, divination and exploration of consciousness. In this book we take an in depth, insightful, and provocative look at this ancient plant and its newly discovered properties. For millennia, the secrets of this rare plant have been closely guarded by Mazatec shamans high in the mountains of Mexico. Rumored to have magical healing properties, this plant and its extracts have recently been introduced to the western market place.

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About the Author

Inventor of numerous groundbreaking herbal formulas, Shaahin Cheyene is a fifth generation herbalist from Iran. Cheyene consults for pharmaceutical companies as well as natural products companies on the use of indigenous and shamanic plants in modern day products. Cheyene was introduced to Salvia Divinorum by the late Terrence McKenna.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 77 pages
• Publisher: Aardvark; 1 edition (September 8, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1599714043
• ISBN-13: 978-1599714042
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,304,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars less than satisfying, July 23, 2008

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DAVID ARNSON (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Salvia Divinorum: Shamanic Plant Medicine (Hardcover)

This author has basically taken information available anywhere on the web and from other books and released it as his own. This is the same guy who sells the lame 'Herbal Ecstasy' product, sheesh!
Stick with the Martin Ball book if you want to read something other than a compilation of other peoples research.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book!, May 25, 2009

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J. Glatzer "Learner 4 Life" (Placentia, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Salvia Divinorum: Shamanic Plant Medicine (Hardcover)

I think David Arnson sounds sort of bitter he didn't come up with the idea for herbal ecstasy. Just because this author has compiled information available elsewhere as well as contributing new information, doesn't mean the quality of the book is any less. As an editor and writer myself, I can tell you it's not easy to pull pieces of information from various places and compile it in an interesting and compelling way, but that is exactly what Cheyene does here. Great book, I learned a lot.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent job, May 24, 2009

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Sy Monteban "GET UP STAND UP!" (Amazon, Brazil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Salvia Divinorum: Shamanic Plant Medicine (Hardcover)

This book does an excellent job of succinctly covering the history of Salvia divinorum up to the new millennium, pulling together the various aspects of ethnobotany, pharmacology, cultivation, chemistry, and contemporary use, into one place for the first time. I highly recommend this to everyone and anyone! Well written and compiled by a respected and knowledgeable author.