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What's funny is I look at this list and see how many I'm missing.
Don't let my library mislead you - not everyone who is interested in shamanism is a druggie, lol. I just have this peculiar interest in poisonous plants, and so many of them have psychoactive properties. It's not my fault, really. Blame it on Coyote ;)
Angier,
- Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants
Avalon Wolfe, Frankie
- The Complete Idiot's Guide to Herbal Remedies
Bagust, Harold, compiler
- The Firefly Dictionary of Plant Names: Common and Botanical
Balch, Phyllis A., CNC
- Prescription for Herbal Healing
Boon, Heather & Michael Smith
- The Complete Natural Medicine Guide to the 50 Most Common Medicinal Herbs
Buchanan, Rita, ed.
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Burnie, Geoffrey, cons. Ed.
- The Little Guides: Herbs
Caduto, Michael J.
- Everyday Herbs in Spiritual Life: A Guide to Many Practices
Chevalier, Andrew, FNIMH
- Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine
Culpeper, Nicholas
- Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Department of the Army
- The Illustrated Guide to Edible Wild Plants
Foley, Denise & Eileen Nachas
- Women's Encyclopedia of Health and Emotional Healing
Forte, Robert, ed
- Entheogens and the Future of Religion
Foster, Steven & Hobbs, Christopher
- Western Medicinal Plants and Herbs (Peterson Field Guides)
- Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants (Peterson Field Guides)
Gabriel, Ingrid
- Herb Identifier and Handbook
Garrett, J. T.
- The Cherokee Herbal: Native Plant Medicine from the Four Directions
- Medicinal Plants
Green, Aliza
- Field Guide to Herbs and Spices
Grieve, Mrs. M.
- A Modern Herbal, Vols I & II
Hageneder, Fred
- The Meaning of Trees
Harrar, Sari & Altshul O'Donnell
- The Woman's Book of Healing Herbs
Heinerman, John
- Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Healing Herbs and Spices
- Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs
Hoffman, David
- The Complete Illustrated Herbal
Hsu & Assoc.
- Oriental Materia Medica
Hutchens, Alma R.
- Indian Herbalogy of
Keville, Kathi
- Herbs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia
Kirk, Donald R.
- Wild Edible Plants of
Knute, Adrienne
- Plants of the East Mojave (Mojave Nat'l Preserve Press)
Kowalchik, Claire & William H. Hylton, eds
- Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs
Krochmal, Arnold & Connie
- A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants
- The Harrowsmith Illustrated Book of Herbs
Lust, John
- The Herb Book
Marinelli, Janet
- Plant
McNair, James K
- All About Herbs (Ortho Books)
McVicar, Jekka
- The Complete Herb Book
Miller, Lucinda G., PharmD, DBCPS & Wallace Murray, PhD, eds
- Herbal Medicinals: A Clinician's Guide
Millspaugh, Charles E.
- American Medicinal Plants
Moody, Mary, cons. Ed.
- Encyclopedia of Flowers
Moore, Michael
- Los Remedios: Traditional Remedies of the Southwest
- Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West
- Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West
- Medicinal Plants of the Desert and Canyon West
Murray,
- Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine
Ody, Penelope
- The Complete Medicinal Herbal
Parker, Robert, et. Al.
- Weeds of the West
Pendell, Dale
- Pharmako/Poeia
- Pharmako/Dynamis
- Pharmako/Gnosis
Pinchbeck, Daniel
- Breaking Open the Head
Rätsch, Christian
- The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants
Reader's Digest
- Magic and Medicine of Plants
- The Complete Illustrated Book of Herbs
Reid, Daniel P.
- Chinese Herbal Medicine
Roberts James, Wilma
- Know Your Poisonous Plants
Russell, Tony & Catherine Cutter
- The World Encyclopedia of Trees
Schultes, Richard Evans, Hofmann, Albert & Rätsch, Christian
Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers
Shores, Sandie
- Growing and Selling Fresh-Cut Herbs
Shulgin, Ann & Alexander
PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story (Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved)
Sweet, Muriel
- Common Edible and Useful Plants of the West
Tierna, Michael, Lac, OMD
- The Way of Herbs
Tilford, Gregory L
- Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West
Tucker, Arthur O., PhD & Thomas DeBaggio
- The Big Book of Herbs
Wasson, R. Gordon, et. Al.
- Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion
Weiss, Gaea & Shandor
- Growing and Using the Healing Herbs
Wiltens, James
- Edible and Poisonous Plants of
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Date: 2009-07-29 05:04 am (UTC)you are WIN
Do you have any favourites out of those?
My Desert Island Herbals
Date: 2009-07-29 05:31 am (UTC)Not because they are chock-full of good information (even though they are) but because they are my two first 'real' herb guides, Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants (Peterson Field Guides) & John Lust's The Herb Book. I've worn out so many copies of both.
I absolutely love Michael Moore's guides. He was (he passed away in February) an excellent, and funny, author; his books are very concise as far as identification, and he hated caltrops (Tribulus terrestris) as much as I do.
Dale Pendell is another favorite all-time love of mine, and of course, the Grand Old Man of Ethnobotany, Richard Evans Schultes himself. Moore, Pendell and Schultes make me want to go out & roll around in the green stuff & you know how much I don't want Nature on me, lol.
The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants & Plants of the Gods were both major scores for me, especially the Encyclopedia - it is the most expensive book I've ever bought and it's worth every penny.
I recommend Penelope Ody's book to everyone - the layout and photography in it are excellent, she's got good descriptions, her research is pretty thorough and it's a great beginner book because it's lively and still has the right precautions.