Medicinal and psychoactive plants covered in my research
Acacia nilotica (AKA Vachellia nilotica) (Fabaceae): Gum Arabic tree (english)/Orkiloriti (Maa)
Cannabis spp. (Cannabaceae): Hemp or marijuana
Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze (Theaceae): Black tea
Greenwayodendron sauveolens (Annonaceae): Motunga/Botunga
Nicotiana spp. (Solanaceae): Tobacco
Cannabis spp. (Cannabaceae): Hemp or marijuana
Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze (Theaceae): Black tea
Greenwayodendron sauveolens (Annonaceae): Motunga/Botunga
Nicotiana spp. (Solanaceae): Tobacco
List of common medicinal and/or psychoactive plants (with links)
Amanita muscaria (L. ex Fr.) Pers. (Amanitaceae): Fly Agaric. Here is an interesting website on fungi with info about Fly Agaric
Acacia spp. (Fabaceae): Here is a list of Acacia species with known psychoactive alkaloids. Here is an online searchable database on legumes
Areca catechu (Arecaceae): Areca nut or Betel nut. Here is a pdf from worldagraforestry.org containing additional info and other resources of interest
Atropa belladonna L. (Solanaceae): Deadly Nightshade
Banisteriopsis caapi (Spruce ex Griseb.) Morton (Malpighiaceae): Ayahuasca
Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze (Theaceae): Black tea
Cannabis spp. (Cannabaceae): Hemp/Marijuana
Catha edulis (Celastraceae): Khat/Qat
Coffea spp. (Rubiaceae): Coffee
Cola acuminata (Malvaceae): Kola nut
Cymbopogon densiflorus Stapf (Gramineae): Lemongrass
Datura innoxia Mill. (D. meteloides) (Solanaceae): Datura
Duboisia hopwoodii F. v. Muell. (Solanaceae): Pituri
Erythroxylum coca Lam. (Erythroxylaceae): Cocaine
Greenwayodendron sauveolens (Annonaceae): Motunga/Botunga
Hyoscyamus albus L. (Solanaceae): Yellow henbane
Lophophora williamsii (Lem.) Coult. (Cactaceae): Peyote
Mitragyna speciosa Korthals (Rubiaceae): Kratom
Muristica fragrans Houtt. (Myristicaceae): Nutmeg
Nicotiana spp. (Solanaceae): Tobacco
Pancratium trianthum Herbert (Amaryllidaceae): Kwashi
Papaver somniferum L. (Papaveraceae): Opium poppy
Psilocybe semilanceaeta (Fr.) Quelet (Strophariaceae): Liberty cap
Sophora secundiflora (Ort.) Lag. ex DC (Fabaceae): Mescal Bean. Here is an online searchable database on legumes
Tabernanthe iboga (Apocynaceae): Ibogaine
Acacia spp. (Fabaceae): Here is a list of Acacia species with known psychoactive alkaloids. Here is an online searchable database on legumes
Areca catechu (Arecaceae): Areca nut or Betel nut. Here is a pdf from worldagraforestry.org containing additional info and other resources of interest
Atropa belladonna L. (Solanaceae): Deadly Nightshade
Banisteriopsis caapi (Spruce ex Griseb.) Morton (Malpighiaceae): Ayahuasca
Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze (Theaceae): Black tea
Cannabis spp. (Cannabaceae): Hemp/Marijuana
Catha edulis (Celastraceae): Khat/Qat
Coffea spp. (Rubiaceae): Coffee
Cola acuminata (Malvaceae): Kola nut
Cymbopogon densiflorus Stapf (Gramineae): Lemongrass
Datura innoxia Mill. (D. meteloides) (Solanaceae): Datura
Duboisia hopwoodii F. v. Muell. (Solanaceae): Pituri
Erythroxylum coca Lam. (Erythroxylaceae): Cocaine
Greenwayodendron sauveolens (Annonaceae): Motunga/Botunga
Hyoscyamus albus L. (Solanaceae): Yellow henbane
Lophophora williamsii (Lem.) Coult. (Cactaceae): Peyote
Mitragyna speciosa Korthals (Rubiaceae): Kratom
Muristica fragrans Houtt. (Myristicaceae): Nutmeg
Nicotiana spp. (Solanaceae): Tobacco
Pancratium trianthum Herbert (Amaryllidaceae): Kwashi
Papaver somniferum L. (Papaveraceae): Opium poppy
Psilocybe semilanceaeta (Fr.) Quelet (Strophariaceae): Liberty cap
Sophora secundiflora (Ort.) Lag. ex DC (Fabaceae): Mescal Bean. Here is an online searchable database on legumes
Tabernanthe iboga (Apocynaceae): Ibogaine
Ethnography and Evolution of Food-Medicines and Drugs
Benjamin, D. R. (1995). Mushrooms: poisons and panaceas. WH Freeman and Co.
Etkin, N. L. (Ed.). (2000). Eating on the wild side: The pharmacologic, ecologic and social implications of using noncultigens. University of Arizona Press.
Etkin, N. L. (2008). Edible medicines: an ethnopharmacology of food. University of Arizona Press.
Goodman, J., Sherratt, A., & Lovejoy, P. E. (Eds.). (2014). Consuming habits: drugs in history and anthropology. Routledge.
Hagen, E. H., Roulette, C. J., & Sullivan, R. J. (2013). Explaining human recreational use of ‘pesticides’: the neurotoxin regulation model of substance use vs. the hijack model and implications for age and sex differences in drug consumption. Frontiers in psychiatry, 4, 142.
Hagen, E. H., Sullivan, R. J., Schmidt, R., Morris, G., Kempter, R., & Hammerstein, P. (2009). Ecology and neurobiology of toxin avoidance and the paradox of drug reward. Neuroscience, 160(1), 69-84.
Jankowiak, W. R., & Bradburd, D. (Eds.). (2003). Drugs, labor, and colonial expansion. University of Arizona Press
Johns, T. (1990). With bitter herbs they shall eat it: Chemical ecology and the origins of human diet and medicine. University of Arizona Press.
La Barre, W. (1989). The peyote cult. University of Oklahoma Press.
McKenna, T. (1999). Food of the gods: The search for the original tree of knowledge: A radical history of plants, drugs, and human evolution. Random House.
Page, J. B. (2004). Drug use. In Encyclopedia of medical anthropology (pp. 374-382). Springer US.
Page, J. B., Fletcher, J., & True, W. R. (1988). Psychosociocultural perspectives on chronic cannabis use: the Costa Rican follow-up. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 20(1), 57-65.
Page, J. B., & Singer, M. (2010). Comprehending drug use: Ethnographic research at the social margins. Rutgers University Press.
Nesse, R. M. (1994). An evolutionary perspective on substance abuse. Ethology and Sociobiology, 15(5-6), 339-348.
Nesse, R. M. (2002). Evolution and addiction. Addiction, 97(4), 470-471.
Nesse, R. M., & Berridge, K. C. (1997). Psychoactive drug use in evolutionary perspective. Science, 278(5335), 63-66.
Rätsch, C. (2005). The encyclopedia of psychoactive plants: ethnopharmacology and its applications. Inner Traditions/Bear & Co.
Roulette, CJ, et al. (2014). Tobacco use vs. helminths in Congo basin hunter-gatherers: self-medication in humans? Evolution and Human Behavior.
Rubin, V. (Ed.). (1975). Cannabis and culture. Walter de Gruyter.
Rubin, V., & Comitas, L. (1975). Ganja in Jamaica: A medical anthropological study of chronic marihuana use (Vol. 26). Mouton.
Schultes, R. E., & Hofmann, A. (1992). Plants of the gods: their sacred, healing, and hallucinogenic powers. Healing Arts Press.
Sullivan, R. J., & Hagen, E. H. (2002). Psychotropic substance‐seeking: evolutionary pathology or adaptation?. Addiction, 97(4), 389-400.
Sullivan, R. J., Hagen, E. H., & Hammerstein, P. (2008). Revealing the paradox of drug reward in human evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 275(1640), 1231-1241.
Wilbert, J. (1993). Tobacco and shamanism in South America. Yale University Press.
Winter, J. C. (Ed.). (2000). Tobacco use by Native North Americans: Sacred smoke and silent killer. University of Oklahoma Press.
Etkin, N. L. (Ed.). (2000). Eating on the wild side: The pharmacologic, ecologic and social implications of using noncultigens. University of Arizona Press.
Etkin, N. L. (2008). Edible medicines: an ethnopharmacology of food. University of Arizona Press.
Goodman, J., Sherratt, A., & Lovejoy, P. E. (Eds.). (2014). Consuming habits: drugs in history and anthropology. Routledge.
Hagen, E. H., Roulette, C. J., & Sullivan, R. J. (2013). Explaining human recreational use of ‘pesticides’: the neurotoxin regulation model of substance use vs. the hijack model and implications for age and sex differences in drug consumption. Frontiers in psychiatry, 4, 142.
Hagen, E. H., Sullivan, R. J., Schmidt, R., Morris, G., Kempter, R., & Hammerstein, P. (2009). Ecology and neurobiology of toxin avoidance and the paradox of drug reward. Neuroscience, 160(1), 69-84.
Jankowiak, W. R., & Bradburd, D. (Eds.). (2003). Drugs, labor, and colonial expansion. University of Arizona Press
Johns, T. (1990). With bitter herbs they shall eat it: Chemical ecology and the origins of human diet and medicine. University of Arizona Press.
La Barre, W. (1989). The peyote cult. University of Oklahoma Press.
McKenna, T. (1999). Food of the gods: The search for the original tree of knowledge: A radical history of plants, drugs, and human evolution. Random House.
Page, J. B. (2004). Drug use. In Encyclopedia of medical anthropology (pp. 374-382). Springer US.
Page, J. B., Fletcher, J., & True, W. R. (1988). Psychosociocultural perspectives on chronic cannabis use: the Costa Rican follow-up. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 20(1), 57-65.
Page, J. B., & Singer, M. (2010). Comprehending drug use: Ethnographic research at the social margins. Rutgers University Press.
Nesse, R. M. (1994). An evolutionary perspective on substance abuse. Ethology and Sociobiology, 15(5-6), 339-348.
Nesse, R. M. (2002). Evolution and addiction. Addiction, 97(4), 470-471.
Nesse, R. M., & Berridge, K. C. (1997). Psychoactive drug use in evolutionary perspective. Science, 278(5335), 63-66.
Rätsch, C. (2005). The encyclopedia of psychoactive plants: ethnopharmacology and its applications. Inner Traditions/Bear & Co.
Roulette, CJ, et al. (2014). Tobacco use vs. helminths in Congo basin hunter-gatherers: self-medication in humans? Evolution and Human Behavior.
Rubin, V. (Ed.). (1975). Cannabis and culture. Walter de Gruyter.
Rubin, V., & Comitas, L. (1975). Ganja in Jamaica: A medical anthropological study of chronic marihuana use (Vol. 26). Mouton.
Schultes, R. E., & Hofmann, A. (1992). Plants of the gods: their sacred, healing, and hallucinogenic powers. Healing Arts Press.
Sullivan, R. J., & Hagen, E. H. (2002). Psychotropic substance‐seeking: evolutionary pathology or adaptation?. Addiction, 97(4), 389-400.
Sullivan, R. J., Hagen, E. H., & Hammerstein, P. (2008). Revealing the paradox of drug reward in human evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 275(1640), 1231-1241.
Wilbert, J. (1993). Tobacco and shamanism in South America. Yale University Press.
Winter, J. C. (Ed.). (2000). Tobacco use by Native North Americans: Sacred smoke and silent killer. University of Oklahoma Press.