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'''Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft''' is a 1995 book by
the American poet and ethnobotanist '''Dale Pendell''', published by Mercury
House. It is the first volume of Pendell's three-part ''Pharmako'' trilogy
and treats the inebriants and the narcotics: plants and substances that
calm, intoxicate, or deaden, including wine, opium, cannabis, the
solanaceous plants, and many others. Pendell organizes the book by ''ally'',
his term for the characteristic spirit of a given plant or substance, and
combines verse, prose, ethnobotany, chemistry, and historical sources. The
trilogy continues with [[Pharmako/Dynamis]] (2002) and concludes with
[[Pharmako/Gnosis]] (2005). Revised and updated editions of all three
volumes were later published by North Atlantic Books. Passages from this
volume are quoted across many medicine and category pages on this wiki
via the PendellsCorner template.

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