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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