72 plant portraits – ethnobotany, rituals and practical applications. By Christian Rätsch.
The scent of the wide world in your own living room or sweat lodge, during a ritual or simply because it smells wonderful and perhaps also has one or the other pleasant accompanying effect. This book finally provides the information we need to make our own incense mixtures in good quality. It provides detailed information about the botany of the parent plants as well as possible applications, chemistry and pharmacology of resins, woods, barks, leaves and seeds. This book is a material science from an ethnobotanical point of view. This book stimulates creativity in the use of incense, because the more you deal with the natural products, the deeper the mysteries of nature can be fathomed. Of course, Christian Rätsch also discusses the culture of incense. All in all, a beautifully presented book that really helps.