Noureddine Chaachouay – författare

Hallucinogens have been traditionally used to encourage spiritual growth, heighten perception, inspire personal development, or expand reality. Comprehensive Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants focuses on ethnobotanical aspects of hallucinogenic plant species, featuring history on how they were used in ancient societies, identifying chemical compounds, and explaining modern medicinal uses, as well as conservation initiatives. The book emphasizes the importance of understanding the cultural, countrywide, environmental, and scientific importance of these medicinal plants.Some of the 50 plants covered in this work include: ayahuasca, ginger, kanna, dream herb, iboga, peyote, canary broom, coral tree, catnip, wild rue, kava, mandrake, and golden angel's trumpet. Each chapter includes information on historical plant use and identification of chemical compounds, and explains modern medicinal uses. The text highlights the importance of studying, evaluating, and utilizing these plants not in isolation, but from a global perspective.Comprehensive Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants appeals to plant scientists, botanists, ethnobotanists, pharmacologists, and those with an interest in alternative or herbal medicine.

Plants underpin life on Earth, yet biodiversity is slipping away. Centring on endemic species Biodiversity and Conservation of Endemic Medicinal Plants: Challenges and Strategies for Sustainable Ecosystems reveal their unique traits, specialised habitats and vital roles in ecological networks, from pollinator partnerships to community dynamics. It evaluates conservation status against the IUCN Red List and national frameworks, maps the major threats, and pairs them with in situ and ex situ responses.Blending ecological science with socio-economic insight, the editors highlight policies from local to global scales and the importance of community participation, indigenous knowledge, and fair benefit-sharing. With evidence from physiology, genetics and population ecology, the book offers practical, adaptive strategies that protect biological and cultural diversity while supporting sustainable livelihoods—a timely call to action for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.