Ethnopharmacologic search for psychoactive drugs Proceedings of a symposium held in San Francisco, California, January 28-30, 1967 Daniel H. Efron, editor-in-chief. Bo Holmstedt [and] Nathan S. Kline, co-editor[s]
"Sponsored by: Pharmacology Section, Psychopharmacology Research Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Public Health Service, U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare"
Contents:
An overview of ethnopharmacology. -- Empiricism and magic in Aztec pharmacology. -- Perspectives on the use and abuse of psychedelic drugs. -- The function of kava in modern Samoan culture. -- Pharmacology of kava. -- Effect of kava in normal subjects and patients. -- Nutmeg as a psychoactive drug. -- South American snuffs. -- Vilca and its use. -- Epena, the intoxicating snuff powder of the Waika Indians and the Tucano medicine man, Agostino. -- Psychotropic properties of the harmala alkaloids. -- The making of the hallucinogenic drink from banisteriopsis cuapi in northern Peru. -- Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) (mushroom) -- Fly agaric and man. -- Ethnopharmacological investigation of some psychoactive drugs used by Siberian and far-eastern minor nationalities of U.S.S.R
