Magic Medicine
Modern-day Use of Psychedelic Plants
Author: Johnson, Cody
An armchair traveller’s guide to all substances psychedelic! Readers will learn about their properties, use, lore, place in history, and their current research and applications as medicine.
The history of psychedelic plants and substances is full of colourful, fascinating facts and stories, and intriguing questions.
Did U.S. Army Intelligence really use LSD as an enhanced military interrogation technique? Why does Ayahuasca have such a long history of use in Peru? Science is beginning to research what traditional cultures have told us for years: psychedelics have transformative healing properties.
Many psychedelic plants and substances have a long history of being incorporated into various healing traditions – such as cannabis and opium in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Magic Medicine explores the fascinating history of psychedelic substances and provides a contemporary update about their growing inclusion modern medicine, science, and culture.
About the Author
Cody Johnson is an intrepid psychonaut and humanist who writes about mind-expanding plants and compounds at PsychedelicFrontier.com. His first taste of psychedelia came in the form of MDMA, which opened him up to the vast realm of unexplored states of consciousness. He dove head first into this new world, experimenting with dozens of psychedelics new and old while blogging about all things psychedelic: their history, emerging scientific research, therapeutic and spiritual applications, and legality.
ISBN: 9781592337729
ISBN-10: 1592337724
Audience: General
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 232
Published: 23rd May 2018
Publisher: Quarto US
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 2.2 x 15.3 x 20.2
Weight (kg): 0.54