Название: Magic Medicine
Автор: Cody Johnson
Издательство: Fair Winds Press
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 11 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The history of psychedelic plants and substances is full of colorful, fascinating facts and stories, and intriguing questions. Did the CIA really use LSD as an enhanced military interrogation technique? Was Santa Claus really inspired by a hallucinogenic mushroom from Siberia? How can MDMA (Ecstasy) help people recover from trauma? Science is beginning to research what traditional cultures have told us for centuries: psychedelics have transformative healing properties.

Many psychedelic plants and substances have a long history of being incorporated into various healing traditions -- such as cannabis in Traditional Chinese Medicine and ayahuasca in Peru. Magic Medicine explores the fascinating history of psychedelic substances and provides a contemporary update about their growing inclusion modern medicine, science, and culture.