Uses and Abuses of Plant-Derived Smoke
Its Ethnobotany as Hallucinogen, Perfume, Incense, and Medicine
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 5 August 2010
- ISBN 9780195370010
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 157x236x20 mm
- Weight 513 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 96 line drawings & 22 halftones illustrations 0
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Short description:
The Uses and Abuses of Plant -Derived Smoke is a global compendium of the ethnobotanical uses for plant-derived smoke. It provides information on the medicinal, religious, recreational and other uses of smoke derived from over 1,400 species of plants.
MoreLong description:
Plants provide the food, shelter, medicines, and biomass that underlie sustainable life. One of the earliest and often overlooked uses of plants is the production of smoke, dating to the time of early hominid species. Plant-derived smoke has had an enormous socio-economic impact throughout human history, being burned for medicinal and recreational purposes, magico-religious ceremonies, pest control, food preservation, and flavoring, perfumes, and incense.
In ten illustrated chapters, this global compendium documents and describes approximately 2,000 global uses for over 1,400 plant species. The Uses and Abuses of Plant-Derived Smoke is accessibly written and provides a wealth of information not only on human uses, but also on conservation issues and the role of smoke, fire, and heat in promoting seed germination in biodiversity hot spots. Divided into nine main categories of use, the compendium lists plant-derived smoke's the medicinal, historical, ceremonial, ritual and recreational uses. Plant use in the production of incense and to preserve and flavor foods and beverages is also included. Each entry includes full binomial names and family, an identification of the person who named the plant, as well as numerous references to and other scholarly texts. Of particular interest will be plants such as Tobacco (Nicotiana tabaccum), Boswellia spp (frankincense), and Datura stramonium (smoked as a treatment for asthma all over the world), all of which are described in great detail.
In addition, this is one of the first ethnobotanical books to include a section on plant conservation. It addresses issues of over-harvest and invasiveness, the two primary conservation concerns with human-exploited species.
This book is quite entertaining with its rich provision of surprising details.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Preface and acknowledgments
Introduction
Fire and Smoke
Medicinal Uses for Plant-derived Smoke
Purification
Evil and Medicine
Magico-religious and Ceremonial Uses
Incense
Incense producing plants
Recreational Uses
Assassinations
Pest Control
Perfumes, Flavoring and Preservation
Veterinary uses
Toxic and obnoxious smoke
Smoke signals
Bibliography
Glossary
Index of scientific names
Subject index
