Pharmako/Poeia

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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.