Magic Medicine

Author : Cody Johnson
Publisher : Fair Winds Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781631594281

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Magic Medicine by Cody Johnson Pdf

“Cody Johnson beautifully balances historical knowledge with cutting-edge science to produce a thoroughly enjoyable and enlightening read which paints a holistic picture of the risks and benefits of psychedelic use in modern day medicine and culture.” —Rick Doblin, PhD, Founder and Executive Director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Magic Medicine explores the fascinating history of psychedelic substances and provides a contemporary update about their growing inclusion in modern medicine, science, and culture. Each chapter dives into the rich history of a single plant or compound and explores its therapeutic and spiritual uses in cultures near and far. Firsthand quotes allow glimmers of psychedelic light throughout. Learn all about: Classical psychedelics, including 2C-B, ayahuasca, LSD, and peyote The empathogenic psychedelics MDA and MDMA Dissociative psychedelics, including DXM, ketamine, and salvia Unique psychedelics, including cannabis, DiPT, and even fish and sea sponges The history of psychedelic plants and substances is full of colorful facts and stories, and intriguing questions. Did US Army Intelligence really use LSD as an enhanced military interrogation technique? How is DiPT able to make a familiar tune sound utterly foreign? Can MDMA (Ecstasy) help people overcome traumatic experiences? Many psychedelic plants and substances have a long history of being incorporated into various healing traditions—such as cannabis and opium in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Science is beginning to research what traditional cultures have told us for years: psychedelics have transformative healing properties. Anyone who has ever wondered about psychedelics—from complete neophytes to veteran trippers, seekers and sages to skeptics and scientists, therapists and patients to green thumbs and armchair anthropologists—will find something in this engrossing and beautifully designed book.

Author : Reader's Digest Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0895772213

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Magic and Medicine of Plants by Reader's Digest Association Pdf

The only book that brings together: an authoritative, stunningly illustrated field guide; a how-to book for identifying, collecting, and reserving plants; the fascinating story of the legends and lore of medicinal plants; and a do-it-yourself guide to planting and using herbs in cooking, cosmetics, and health. Illustrated.

Author : John Mann
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0198558546

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Murder, Magic, and Medicine by John Mann Pdf

This absorbing account of the evolution of modern medicine from its roots in folk medicine will entertain and inform both scientist and general reader alike. It explains the chemical basis of pharmacology, and provides a fascinating description of how the use and abuse of natural products in various societies throughout the ages has led to the development of many of the drugs we now take for granted.

Author : W.H.R. Rivers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134524549

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Medicine, Magic and Religion by W.H.R. Rivers Pdf

One of the most fascinating men of his generation, W.H.R. Rivers was a British doctor and psychiatrist as well as a leading ethnologist. Immortalized as the hero of Pat Barker's award-winning Regeneration trilogy, Rivers was the clinician who, in the First World War, cared for the poet Siegfried Sassoon and other infantry officers injured on the western front. His researches into the borders of psychiatry, medicine and religion made him a prominent member of the British intelligentsia of the time, a friend of H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell. Part of his appeal lay in an extraordinary intellect, mixed with a very real interest in his fellow man. Medicine, Magic and Religion is a prime example of this. A social institution, it is one of Rivers' finest works. In it, Rivers introduced the then revolutionary idea that indigenous practices are indeed rational, when viewed in terms of religious beliefs.

Author : Daryl Peavy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780557183708

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Kings, Magic, and Medicine by Daryl Peavy Pdf

The dynamics of Traditional African Medicine/Magic, kings, mystical warriors,and priests on the rise of the Great Benin empire.

Author : Paul A. Offit, M.D.
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780062223005

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Do You Believe in Magic? by Paul A. Offit, M.D. Pdf

Medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing exposé of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how even though some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response, many of them are ineffective, expensive, and even deadly. Dr. Offit reveals how alternative medicine—an unregulated industry under no legal obligation to prove its claims or admit its risks—can actually be harmful to our health. Using dramatic real-life stories, Offit separates the sense from the nonsense, showing why any therapy—alternative or traditional—should be scrutinized. He also shows how some nontraditional methods can do a great deal of good, in some cases exceeding therapies offered by conventional practitioners. An outspoken advocate for science-based health advocacy who is not afraid to take on media celebrities who promote alternative practices, Dr. Offit advises, “There’s no such thing as alternative medicine. There’s only medicine that works and medicine that doesn’t.”

Author : Zachary B. Friedenberg
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781453580332

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Magic, Miracles, and Medicine by Zachary B. Friedenberg Pdf

MIRACLES, MAGIC, AND MEDICINE is a study of medical frustrationthe inability of the physician to dispense medicine that worked. Hundreds of biological medications were prescribed but no more than five or six actually improved the patients condition. As a result, patients turned to miracles, magicians, witch doctors, astrology, and the church. For almost a thousand years, the churchs answer to disease was prayer. Spirits, angels, and demons lurked everywhere. The Antichrist practiced witchcraft and sorcery, and soothsayers predicted the future. Flagellation was practiced, and magician with their smoke and mirrors, held sway. Among the Romans, cabbage was the cure for all disorders, and eating the herb dittany could extract an arrow. It was only with the age of science that effective medications were discovered. Those practicing witchcraft were accused of intimately consorting with the devil and his demons, even having sex with them.

Author : Strahil V. Panayotov,Luděk Vacín
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004368088

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Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic by Strahil V. Panayotov,Luděk Vacín Pdf

Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic. Studies in Honour of Markham J. Geller offers 34 brand-new text editions and analytical studies concerned with diverse healing traditions and practices in Ancient Western Asia.

Author : D T (Donald Taylor) Atkinson
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014139856

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Magic, Myth and Medicine by D T (Donald Taylor) Atkinson Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Gloria St John
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1732437319

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Magic Medicine by Gloria St John Pdf

Magic Medicine: Homeopathy as Shamanism is a work of non-fiction that explains the relationship and similarity between two forms of healing, Homeopathy and Shamanism. This is done by describing and explaining the core elements of shamanism and showing how most of these are contained within homeopathy, albeit in a different form. This relationship has not been previously described, although there are many allusions to it within published works in the field of homeopathy. This book contributes to the body of literature in the areas of the philosophy and theory of homeopathy.

Author : Lauren Kassell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191514227

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Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London by Lauren Kassell Pdf

Simon Forman (1552-1611) is one of London's most infamous astrologers. He stood apart from the medical elite because he was not formally educated and because he represented, and boldly asserted, medical ideas that were antithetical to those held by most learned physicians. He survived the plague, was consulted thousands of times a year for medical and other questions, distilled strong waters made from beer, herbs, and sometimes chemical ingredients, pursued the philosopher's stone in experiments and ancient texts, and when he was fortunate spoke with angels. He wrote compulsively, documenting his life and protesting his expertise in thousands of pages of notes and treatises. This highly readable book provides the first full account of Forman's papers, makes sense of his notorious reputation, and vividly recovers the world of medicine and magic in Elizabethan London.

Author : Melanie Warner
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781501121500

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The Magic Feather Effect by Melanie Warner Pdf

The acclaimed author of Pandora’s Lunchbox and former New York Times reporter delivers an “entertaining and highly useful book that gives you the tools to understand how alternative medicine works, so you can confidently make up your own mind” (The Washington Post). We all know someone who has had a seemingly miraculous cure from an alternative form of medicine: a friend whose chronic back pain vanished after sessions with an acupuncturist or chiropractor; a relative with digestive issues who recovered with herbal remedies; a colleague whose autoimmune disorder went into sudden inexplicable remission thanks to an energy healer or healing retreat. The tales are far too common to be complete fabrications, yet too anecdotal and outside the medical mainstream to be taken seriously scientifically. How do we explain them and the growing popularity of alternative medicine more generally? In The Magic Feather Effect, author and journalist Melanie Warner takes us on a vivid, important journey through the world of alternative medicine. Visiting prestigious research clinics and ordinary people’s homes, she investigates the scientific underpinning for the purportedly magical results of these practices and reveals not only the medical power of beliefs and placebo effects, but also the range, limits, and uses of the surprising system of self-healing that resides inside us. Equal parts helpful, illuminating, and compelling, The Magic Feather Effect is a “well-written survey of alternative medicine…fair-minded, thorough, and focused on verifiable scientific research” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Warner’s enlightening, engaging deep dive into the world of alternative medicine and the surprising science that explains why it may work is an essential read.

Author : Manfred Horstmanshoff,Marten Stol
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047414315

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Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine by Manfred Horstmanshoff,Marten Stol Pdf

A study of methods in Ancient Near Eastern and Greek and Roman medicine, based on representative text corpora. Central is the question of what is "rational", or not, in the various systems.

Author : Howard Clark Kee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1988-11-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521368189

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Medicine, Miracle and Magic in New Testament Times by Howard Clark Kee Pdf

This book illustrates in detail the range of understandings of the human condition in New Testament times and remedies for ills that prevailed when Jesus and the apostles were spreading the Christian message and launching Christian communities in the Graeco-Roman world.

Author : John Camp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Psychology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007496115

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Magic, Myth and Medicine by John Camp Pdf