Foreword
Preface and acknowledgments
Introduction
Fire and Smoke
Medicinal Uses for Plant-derived Smoke
Purification
Evil and Medicine
Magico-religious and Ceremonial Uses
Incense
Incense producing plants
Recreational Uses
Assassinations
Pest Control
Perfumes, Flavoring and Preservation
Veterinary uses
Toxic and obnoxious smoke
Smoke signals
Bibliography
Glossary
Index of scientific names
Subject index
Marcello Pennacchio is an ethnobotanist with more than twelve years
of experience in research and teaching in this area. He has
published many peer-reviewed journal articles on traditional
Australian Aboriginal uses for plants, with special emphasis on
those considered useful for treating heart-related diseases. His
current research interests include plants that can be smoked for
medicinal and other purposes.
Lara V. Jefferson is a restoration ecologist. She too has written
scholarly journal articles and has presented her work at various
conferences all over the world. Her main research interests are
invasive plant species and using smoke to promote seed
germination.
Kayri Havens is the Medard and Elizabeth Welch Director of the
Division for Plant Biology and Conservation at the Chicago Botanic
Garden. Dr Havens has also written scholarly journal articles and
recently co-authored and co-edited a book on conservation, titled
Ex-situ Plant Conservation (Island Press).
"A distinctive, excellent resource for a specialized topic. Readers
who think that plant smoke is just for inhaling intoxicants will be
surprised by the breadth of human uses of smoke derived from
plants, such as seed germination, pest control, and veterinary
medicine. Academic libraries supporting programs in areas such as
agriculture, ethnobotany, history, cosmetics, and medicine may
benefit from this thoroughly researched volume." -- Choice
"A fascinating excursion. This book demonstrates that there's a lot
more to smoke created from plant material than just nicotine and
narcotics. Although this book remains morally neutral on the rights
and wrongs of smoking various substances, it goes some way towards
countering the view that plant smoke is always a bad thing."--Green
Prophet
"The list of plants presented through the authors extensive
literature search is a valuable entity. Perhaps this book's
greatest contribution will be in its ability to stimulate research
into identification of phytochemicals in a plant's smoke
responsible for its ethnobotanical uses." -- Robert J. Krueger,
Ferris St. University, Economic Botany
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