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Category:Plants: Difference between revisions

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Category:Plants — full descriptive overview article (category-claude draft; home-claude fact-check applied: PMID add, Spirit Cave correction, Withering count, journal-italics strip, MedCategoryFull; Pendell quote read-back verified against Gnosis p.7)
House terminology: stimulants -> psychostimulants in the pharmakon section
 
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<blockquote>Poison and medicine are samsara and nirvana, forever wedded: the pharmakon.<ref name="pendell-gnosis-p7">Pendell D. ''Pharmako/Gnosis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path''. San Francisco: Mercury House; 2005. p. 7.</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>Poison and medicine are samsara and nirvana, forever wedded: the pharmakon.<ref name="pendell-gnosis-p7">Pendell D. ''Pharmako/Gnosis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path''. San Francisco: Mercury House; 2005. p. 7.</ref></blockquote>


It is this understanding, that the plant medicines are not tame, and that the same gift which heals can wound, that places the inebriants, the stimulants, and the visionaries in the same account as the gentle healing herbs. They are all pharmaka, and the wiki follows Pendell in treating them so.
It is this understanding, that the plant medicines are not tame, and that the same gift which heals can wound, that places the inebriants, the psychostimulants, and the visionaries in the same account as the gentle healing herbs. They are all pharmaka, and the wiki follows Pendell in treating them so.


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