The Encyclopedia of Aphrodisiacs: Psychoactive Substances for Use in Sexual Practices

Name: The Encyclopedia of Aphrodisiacs: Psychoactive Substances for Use in Sexual Practices
Brand: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
SKU: 9781594771699
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By (author): Christian Ratsch Claudia Muller-Ebeling

The culmination of more than 30 years of cultural, anthropological, and scientific research, this encyclopedia examines the botany, pharmacology, history, preparation, dosage, and practical use of more than 400 erotically stimulating substances from antiquity to the present day. From plants and animals that enhance fertility and virility, like celery, snails, or oysters, to substances that induce arousal, like ephedra, opium, or cannabis, the encyclopedia is richly illustrated with more than 800 color photographs--many of which are from the authors extensive fieldwork around the world. Exploring individual, medicinal, and ritual use through historic and contemporary artwork, personal accounts, and literature as well as ayurvedic, tantric, shamanic, and European folklore practices and recent pharmacological research, the authors look at the revolving cycle of acceptance and condemnation of aphrodisiacs, the qualities that incur the label of aphrodisiac, the role of mind and setting, and the different ways aphrodisiacs stimulate desire--either physically, through the senses and vital organs, or mentally, through heightened awareness and altered consciousness. This comprehensive guide reveals these remedies of the love goddess as holy remedies whose proper use can help reestablish harmony with oneself, ones partner, and the universe. See more

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Weight: 2334g
Dimensions: 216 x 279mm
Publication Date: 03 Feb 2013
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781594771699

About Christian RatschClaudia Muller-Ebeling

CHRISTIAN RÄTSCH Ph.D. (1957 2022) was a world-renowned anthropologist and ethnopharmacologist who specialized in the shamanic uses of plants for spiritual as well as medicinal purposes. He studied Mesoamerican languages and cultures and anthropology at the University of Hamburg receiving his doctorate with a thesis on healing spells and incantations of the Lacandon-Maya people after three years of fieldwork among the Lacandon in Chiapas Mexico. In addition to his work in Mexico his numerous fieldworks have included research in Thailand Bali the Seychelles and with coauthor Claudia Müller-Ebeling a long-term 18-year study on shamanism in Nepal combined with expeditions to Korea and the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon. Before becoming a full-time author and internationally renowned lecturer Rätsch worked as professor of anthropology at the University of Bremen and served as consultant advisor for many German museums. Because of his extensive collection of shells fossils artifacts and entheopharmacological items he had numerous museum expositions on these topics. A former president of the Association of Ethnomedicine he is the author of numerous articles and more than 40 books including The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants and Marijuana Medicine and is a coauthor of Plants of the Gods. CLAUDIA MÜLLER-EBELING Ph.D. is an art historian and anthropologist and coauthor with Christian Rätsch of Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas Witchcraft Medicine and Pagan Christmas as well as a number of articles and books in German. In addition to her long-term anthropological fieldwork in Nepal Korea and the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon she has worked as an art historian at the Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts and taught at the Hamburg Institute of Ethnology. She is one of the founders of Psycho Activity an organization based in Amsterdam that seeks to preserve ancestral shamanic traditions by working with elders from around the world and distributing their wisdom globally. Both authors are former members of the board of advisors of the European College for the Study of Consciousness and regularly gave lectures throughout the world on shamanism ethnobotany and indigenous spiritual and healing traditions. Claudia lives in Hamburg Germany.