01820oam 2200361 450 991077488150332120230516151531.0(CKB)3460000000088802(NjHacI)993460000000088802(EXLCZ)99346000000008880220130624cuuuuuuuu uu 0itauucu#---uuuuutxtrdacontentnrdamediancrdacarrierPiante ed ebbrezze /Fausto Barbagli, Marina Clauser, Paolo LuzziFirenze :Firenze University Press,20101 online resource (41 pages) colour illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)Print version: 9788884539779 Includes bibliographical references and index.Among his numerous interests, the scholar Paolo Mantegazza (1831-1910) also devoted himself to psychotropic plants, which he described in monographic contributions and in popular writings of a medical character, more specifically Quadri della natura umana: Feste ed ebbrezze and Elementi di igiene. Adopting the criteria of subdivision utilised by the scholar, the most widely used plants, foodstuffs and drinks are described, providing information about their botanical characteristics, their history, their chemical properties, their uses and the risks of abuse. They include, among others, sugar cane, coffee, tea, yerba mate, guarana, cocoa, tobacco, poppy, pepper, cinnamon, vanilla, cloves and absinthe.Psychotropic plantsPsychotropic plants.581.634Barbagli Fausto1968-597633Clauser MarinaLuzzi PaoloUkMaJRUBOOK9910774881503321Piante ed ebbrezze2947370UNINA