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Aromatics, Narcotics, Stimulants, Spices

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Useful Plants of Neotropical Origin

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This rather heterogeneous chapter includes native psycho-active plants and aromatics, as well as industrially highly developed stimulants and spices. We have refrained from discussing the many drugs and hallucinogens widely used by the natives of tropical America which have received outstanding treatment by Schultes and Hofmann (1980). In view of the urgently needed diversification of small-crop production in developing countries and their well-deserved aspiration to open new market opportunities, we recommend especially the spices, dyes and aromatics. They have the advantage of being long-storage and low-volume items, in addition to which most of them are work-intensive. The demand for spices on the world market is increasing, and the trade has continously expanded during the last decade. Producing dye plants and spices can act as an urgently needed stimulus for micro-economies of small-holder families in tropical regions (Purseglove et al. 1981). We begin with some examples.

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Brücher, H. (1989). Aromatics, Narcotics, Stimulants, Spices. In: Useful Plants of Neotropical Origin. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73313-0_8

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