Concise Handbook of Psychoactive Herbs - Marcello Spinella

Concise Handbook of Psychoactive Herbs

Medicinal Herbs for Treating Psychological and Neurological Problems
Buch | Softcover
296 Seiten
2005
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7890-1858-8 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
Presents an understanding of herbal products that have psychological effects. This book explores how they work, how effective they are, and what is known about their safety. It shows how herbal preparations can affect the brain, mental state, and behavior of a user, and includes treatment methods, tables, illustrations, and a bibliography.
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


With the Concise Handbook of Psychoactive Herbs, you’ll examine the effects of psychoactive drugs on the nervous systemboth positive and negative. Each chapter discusses a type of herbal medicine, its action on the brain and other systems of the body, side effects, and the potential for addiction. The book closely examines possible drug interactions with prescription medications and emphasizes the caution you need to take when using herbal health products.

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

Marcello Spinella

Chapter 1. Introduction

Plants As Medicines

The Use of Herbal Medicines

Why Do Plants Make Drugs?

How Humans Came to Use Herbal Medicines

The Science of Herbal Medicines

Summary

Chapter 2. How the Brain Works

Mind, Brain, and Behavior

Communication in and Between Neurons

Structure of the Nervous System

Chapter 3. How Drugs Work

How the Body Affects Drugs

How Drugs Affect the Body

Relationships Between Drug Doses and Effects

Chapter 4. Stimulant Herbs

Pharmaceutical Stimulants

Caffeine Stimulants

Tobacco and Tobacco-Like Stimulants

Amphetamine-Like Stimulants

Summary

Chapter 5. Cognition-Enhancing Herbs

Discussion and Treatment of Dementia

Ginkgo

Ginseng

Tobacco

Solanaceous Vegetables: Tomato, Potato, and Eggplant

Discussion and Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease

Fava Beans

Summary

Chapter 6. Sedative and Anti-Anxiety Herbs

The Problem of Anxiety

Insomnia

The Structure of Sleep

Central Nervous System Depressants

Valerian

Kava

Passionflower

Chamomile

Other Reputed Sedative Herbs

Summary

Chapter 7. Herbs for Mental Illnesses

The Era of Psychotherapeutic Drugs

Depression and Anxiety

St. John’s Wort

Ginger

Ginkgo

Schizophrenia and Psychosis

Chapter 8. Herbal Painkillers

What Is Pain?

The Pain Systems

The Analgesia System

Herbal Analgesics

Opium Poppy

Myrrh

Willow

Meadowsweet

Feverfew

Ginger

Chili Peppers

Stimulant Analgesics

Local Anesthetic Herbs

Chapter 9. Herbal Hallucinogens

What to Call Them?

The Historical Uses of Hallucinogenic Plants

LSD-Like Hallucinogens

Collective Issues with LSD-Like Hallucinogens

The Nightshade Hallucinogens

Fly Agaric

Chapter 10. Cannabis

History

Cannabis and the Human Body

Cannabis Addiction

Therapeutic Uses of Cannabis

Summary

Chapter 11. Use, Abuse, and Addiction

Definitions

Evolutionary Basis for Drug Abuse

Psychological Perspective

Addiction in the Brain

Are Addictions Limited to Drugs?

Treatment

Treatment Methods

Prevention

Conclusions

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Reference Notes Included

Erscheint lt. Verlag 25.2.2005
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 550 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
Medizin / Pharmazie Naturheilkunde
ISBN-10 0-7890-1858-6 / 0789018586
ISBN-13 978-0-7890-1858-8 / 9780789018588
Zustand Neuware
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