Dear members. Hi there. I would like to inform the community about my new book: African Psychoactive Plants, which is a result of doing field research spanning 15 years in which I recorded over 300 species of plants being used for psychoactive purposes from Southern Africa. Psychoactive plant use research has been gaining momentum over the last century around the world, particularly in the Americas. Despite this, psychoactive plant use has been a neglected field of research in Africa that has resulted in a huge gap in the ethnobotanical study of these fascinating plants. This set me off on a journey to answer the question; are African traditional healers using visionary and other psychoactive plants in order to assist their spiritual and medical healing practices? This journey led to amazing insights into healing with psychoactive plants that I would like to make the readers aware of.
My book is on Amazon. If you have questions on the book please ask here and I will try answer.
One interesting aspect of the research is why Africa was left out of the research on this topic
Kind Regards Jean-Francois
by phytoalchemist