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Harmal - The Genus Peganum (Paperback)
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Harmal - The Genus Peganum (Paperback)
Series: Traditional Herbal Medicines for Modern Times
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Harmal: The Genus Peganum is an in-depth treatment of one of the
most commanding plants in the botanical kingdom. Humble in
appearance, modest in its needs, Peganum harmala has been venerated
for millennia as a Deity-manifesting entheogen and a powerful
medicine. This book traverses harmal's medicinal chemistry, its
possible role in the origins of religion, and its employment from
ancient times to the present in the therapy of patients suffering
from infections, infestations, metabolic derangements, neurological
degeneration, visual weakness, and cancer. Its peculiar indolic
compounds, known as harmala alkaloids, are now appreciated as
exerting profound effects on the mind and on the body. These
effects are the result of the alkaloids' interactions with, and
binding to, serotonin receptors on the cell surfaces of neurons in
the brain and lymphocytes in the blood, the latter constituting the
diffuse structural basis of the immune system. This biphasic
modulation by harmala alkaloids has led to a novel pharmacologic
re-visioning presented herein for the first time, the concept of a
"lymphoneuric syncytium" and its possible long term tuning via
"somatodelic" as well as "psychedelic" effects. The scientific
rationale underlying the use of harmal in the medicines of the past
and the healing technologies of our future is developed through
exhaustive and meticulous explorations in both ethnopharmacology
and modern phytochemistry. The presentation is enhanced through
appraisals of the effects of harmal in two clinical cancer case
scenarios, and of intentional inebriation and "provings" by one of
the authors and a psychiatric colleague. The noted and esteemed
botanically-trained physician Dr. Andrew Weil states in his Preface
that this "monumental" volume will become the standard reference
work in the field. Harmal: The Genus Peganum will be an invaluable
addition to the personal libraries of professional
pharmacognosists, botanists, physicians, psychologists,
neuroscientists, and all persons interested in the
interrelationship of consciousness, medicine, and coevolution.
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