A defining scholarly publication on the past and current state of reSearch with psychedelic plant substances for medicine, therapeutics, and spiritual uses.
So, in June of 2017, once again specialists from around the world in fields of ethnopharmacology, chemistry, botany, and anthropology gathered to discuss their reSearch and findings in.
There still remains much work to do in this field, and many significant discoveries remain to be made.
They are no longer as stigmatized as they have been in the past, although they remain controversial.
There is now a renaissance in research, and some of these agents are actively being investigated for their therapeutic potential.
At the same time, there has been a sea change in public and medical perceptions of psychedelics.
A new generation of researchers, many inspired by the giants present at that first conference, has continued to investigate the outer limits of ethno-psychopharmacology.
Research, however, has continued, and in the fifty Years since that first conference, new and significant discoveries have been made.
The WAR ON Drugs which intervened slowed advances in this field.
It was an interdisciplinary group of specialists - from ethnobotanists to neuroscientists - gathered in one place to share their findings on a topic that was gaining widespread interest: The use of Psychoactive plants in indigenous societies.
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The first international gathering of researchers held on this subject was in 1967, sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and U.
Can Western medicine find new cures for human ailments by tapping into indigenous plant wisdom? And why the particular interest in the plants with Psychoactive properties? These two conference volume proceedings provide an abundance of answers.
Certain plants have long been known to contain healing properties and used to treat everything from depression and addiction, to aiding in on one\'s own spiritual well-being for hundreds of years.
A defining scholarly publication on the past and current state of reSearch with psychedelic plant substances for medicine, therapeutics, and spiritual uses
