The Last Sorcerer : Echoes of the Rainforest

Literature & Fiction

Russo, Ethan

United States

Haworth Integrative Healing Press

Experience the awesome beauty of the rainforest! Searching for secret knowledge in the exotic world of the Amazon . . . David Abravanel, an American physician, travels to the Peruvian Amazon to pursue research on rainforest plants that may be useful to treat psychiatric conditions and physical pain. With his mentor, aging jungle botanist Bart Campbell, he embarks on an expedition to learn the plant medicine secrets of an Amazonian "lost tribe," the A'i'tian'tesi. Trouble lurks around every bend in the trail! The obstacles in their way--an evangelical missionary who wants to westernize the tribe, groups of tourists including a convention of alternative healers who run the gamut from the respectable to the half-mad, and a less-than-friendly, mysteriously powerful A'i'tian'tesi shaman who holds his knowledge in a dangerously tight grip-- make their mission difficult and dangerous. What they learn changes David forever. Mysterious tribes, beautiful women, dangerous wildlife, ancient spirituality, hallucinogenic rituals, and a vision quest! The Last Sorcerer: Echoes of the Rainforest immerses you in the enigmatic world of the rainforest and the beautiful intricacies of Amazonian life with its unique flora, fauna, and human and spiritual issues. This is an expedition that is not to be missed!

Harrington Park Pr

The Handbook of Cannabis Therapeutics: From Bench to Bedside (Haworth Series in Integrative Healing)

Learn the facts behind the pharmacology and pharmacokinetics of controversial cannabis therapeutics The Handbook of Cannabis Therapeutics: From Bench to Bedside sets aside the condemnation and hysteria of society’s view of cannabis to concentrate on the medically sound aspects of cannabis therapeutics. The world’s foremost experts provide a reasoned, thoroughly researched overview of the controversial subject of cannabis, from its history as a medicine through its latest therapeutic uses. The latest studies on the botany, history, biochemistry, pharmacology, toxicology, clinical use for various illnesses such as AIDS, epilepsy, and multiple sclerosis, and side effects of marijuana are all examined and discussed in depth. This comprehensive resource is a compendium of articles from the Journal of Cannabis Therapeuticswith additional contemporary commentary. It presents startling research that explores and supports the medicinal value of cannabis use and its derivatives as a valid therapeutic resource for pain and inflammation, for several illnesses less responsive to other therapies, and even for certain veterinary uses. Cannabinoids such as nabilone, THC, levonantradol, ajulemic acid, dexanabinal, and others are extensively described, with a review of new indications for cannabinoid pharmaceuticals. The book is carefully referenced to encourage your examination of previous studies and provides tables and figures to enhance understanding of information. The Handbook of Cannabis Therapeutics discusses: 
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<li> the uses of cannabis in Arabic, Greek, Roman, and early English medicines 
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<li> absorption rates 
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<li> pharmacokinetics 
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<li> pharmacodynamics 
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<li> separate extracts versus the use of cannabis in its entirety 
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<li> the therapeutic value of the endocannabinoid system 
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<li> cannabinoids and newborn feeding 
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<li> a comparison of smoking versus oral preparations 
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<li> clinical research data on eating cannabis 
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<li> therapeutic uses as appetite stimulant 
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<li> treatments in obstetrics and gynecology 
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<li> medicinal treatments used in Jamaica 
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<li> the use of cannabis in the treatment of multiple sclerosis 
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<li> the benefits versus the adverse side effects of cannabis use 
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</ul>The Handbook of Cannabis Therapeutics is a reference work certain to become crucial to physicians, psychologists, researchers, biochemists, graduate students, and interested members of the public.

The Handbook of Cannabis Therapeutics (Haworth Series in Integrative Healing)

Grotenhermen, Franjo

History

Routledge

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