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Uses and Abuses of Plant-Derived Smoke - Its Ethnobotany as Hallucinogen, Perfume, Incense, and Medicine (Hardcover)
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Uses and Abuses of Plant-Derived Smoke - Its Ethnobotany as Hallucinogen, Perfume, Incense, and Medicine (Hardcover)
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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.
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