Books to consider in your study of natural products:

Murder, Magic & Medicine by John Mann

Medicinal Natural Products: A Biosynthetic Approach by Paul M. Dewick

Psychedelic Shamanism: The Cultivation, Preparation, and Shamanic Use of Psychotropic Plants by Jim DeKorne

The Psychopharmacology of Herbal Medicine: Plant Drugs that Alter Mind, Brain, and Behavior by Marcello Spinella

Plants of the Gods by Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann and Christian Ratsch

Narcotic Plants by William Emboden (for a review on this book, click here)

Herbs, Botanicals, and Teas by G. Mazza and B.D. Oomah

Medical Botany by Walter H. Lewis

Plants of Life, Plants of Death by Frederick J. Simoons

Allelopathy: Organisms, Processes, and Applications by K.M.M. Dakshini and Frank A. Einhellig 

One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rainforest by Wade Davis

PiHKAL by Alexander and Ann Shulgin

TiHKAL by Alexander and Ann Shulgin

Ethonobotany: Evolution of a discipline by R. E. Schultes and S. von Reis

The Compleat Herbal by Ben Charles Harris

Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic drugs, their plant sources and history by Jonathan Ott

The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America by Steven Barrett, MD and William T. Jarvis, PhD

Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs by D. Efrom, Bo Holmstedt and N. Kline

Human Medicinal Agents from Plants by A. Douglas Kinghorn and Manuel F. Balandrin

Biologically Active Natural Products: Pharmaceuticals by Stephen J. Cutler and Horace G. Cutler

Phytomedicines of Europe: Chemistry and Biological Activity by Larry D. Lawson and Rudolph Bauer

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