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Pharmako/Dynamis: Stimulating Plants, Potions, and Herbcraft, the second volume of Dale Pendell's Pharmako trilogy, appeared in 2002, seven years after Pharmako/Poeia.^[1] Where the first volume gathered the inebriants, the plants of loosening and grounding, Dynamis turns to their opposite: the plants and preparations that quicken, sharpen, warm, and open. Pendell kept the method of the first book, the braid of botany, chemistry, ethnography, and verse, and again wrote in terms of the "ally" character of each plant. Dynamis treats coffee, tea, chocolate, kola, betel, and coca among the psychostimulants, and nutmeg, MDMA, and GHB among the empathogens, the agents whose alteration is one of warmth and connection rather than of simple arousal.

On pharmacopedia.wiki the Pharmako trilogy is the primary literary source for plant medicines, and its three volumes form the primary structure of the plant panel. This category is the wiki's page for the second volume. It collects the plant medicines that Pendell placed among the psychostimulants and the empathogens, and it indexes the two class-level categories he names within Dynamis.

Dynamis is the shortest of the three volumes in its class structure: Pendell divides it into two classes. Each is a category page in its own right; the medicine pages are indexed under the classes.

• Excitantia: the psychostimulants, the plants and agents of arousal, wakefulness, and quickened activity. Anchor plants and agents include coffee, tea, chocolate, kola, betel, ma huang, khat, amphetamine, and coca.
• Empathogenica: the empathogens, the agents whose characteristic effect is warmth, openness, and a felt sense of connection. Anchor agents include nutmeg, MDMA, and GHB.

The wiki's psychostimulant pharmacology is treated more fully under Psychostimulants on the pharmaceutical side; the Excitantia class indexes the same and related agents from the Pendell, plant-facing direction. A medicine may sit in both, following the wiki's multi-membership convention.

This category collects the plant medicines that Dale Pendell gathered in the second volume of the Pharmako trilogy, the psychostimulants and the empathogens. It is one of three volume categories, alongside Poeia and Gnosis, that together make up the Pendell axis, the primary structure of the wiki's plant panel.

The Pendell axis is one organizing frame among several. A plant medicine indexed here carries one volume tag, Dynamis, and one or both of the class tags above; it may also belong, under the wiki's multi-membership convention, to cross-cutting classes that the Pendell scheme does not name. The boundaries between the volumes are Pendell's own, and they are characterological rather than strictly pharmacological: Poeia is the volume of loosening and grounding, Dynamis the volume of quickening, Gnosis the volume of vision. The empathogens sit at a genuine boundary, since their effect is neither simple arousal nor full vision; Pendell placed them in Dynamis, and the wiki follows that placement.

Each plant medicine indexed under this volume has its own page, built on the wiki's standard plant-medicine structure: a history-first account that gives most of its length to where the plant came from and how people came to use it, followed by pharmacology, indications, adverse effects, and interactions. Verbatim passages from Pharmako/Dynamis appear on the medicine pages through the wiki's PendellsCorner component, which carries Pendell's own words and nothing else.

This is one of the wiki's MedCategory overview pages. It carries the MedCategory marker tag. The category sits beneath Plants, the plant origin root; the two class categories sit directly beneath it.