Going through the slides of the knowledge that emerge from the pages of this work, you can't help but become a bit of a philosopher... and the thought takes you from linden tea to opium, from incense to tobacco. From good fairy to cold-blooded killer, from reverie to torment and back. The difference between the extremes has always been knowledge in the maximum dose and the source of wisdom passes, every time, from generation to generation. Sometimes hidden and often blasphemed at other times, knowledge represented, at one place, the foundation stone and the steps on which humanity climbed on the path of evolution. In the sad moments when knowledge was lost or destroyed, people had to start over and repeat history. Lack of knowledge or simple ignorance often led to suffering... The inadequate and irresponsible use of plants and psychoactive substances almost inevitably caused pain, illusion and despair. Confused with the moment of relaxation of the day, with the saving solution or even with the path to happiness, psychoactive plants have turned from spiritual, initiatory or simply medicinal elements into objects of trade or contraband.
The author reveals, presents a current and often dangerous aspect of the normality that surrounds us: plants and psycho-active substances.
The journey through the history of psychoactive plants, as presented, is one of the fantastic journeys of knowledge that can be made. And maybe one of the most useful for the reader. The documentation in the appendices is extensive and, if it does not satisfy "psycho-curiosity", at least one can find out, once again, what is good and what is poisonous. In the world or even in your own yard...
Univ. Prof. Dr. Irina Holdevici