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Plants and Plant Constituents as Mind-Altering Agents Throughout History

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Stimulants

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From his earliest gropings as a distinct animal, man undoubtedly experimented with his vegetal surroundings. He put into his stomach anything from the plant kingdom in his frantic search for nourishment. He early discovered that some plants served to assuage hunger and sustain him; others relieved symptoms of illness; still others were dangerous, making him ill or killing him outright; but a few, he found, transported him from this monotonous and not-too-pleasant mundane existence to realms of ethereal wonder and inexplicable separation from everyday existence. He had discovered the narcotics, especially the hallucinogenic plants, capable of much more than activity on the physical body but able, through their psychoactivity on the central nervous system, to alter in ways most extraordinary the psyche and its relationship to the natural affairs of man.

There appears to be no human society so simple in material culture as to lack some sort of mood-altering drug as an escape from the workaday world.

—La Barre

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Schultes, R.E. (1978). Plants and Plant Constituents as Mind-Altering Agents Throughout History. In: Iversen, L.L., Iversen, S.D., Snyder, S.H. (eds) Stimulants. Handbook of Psychopharmacology, vol 11. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0510-2_5

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