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If you want to approach the subject from "the other
side" then you could leaf through Gessner & Orzechowski - Gift und
Arzneipflanzen Mitteleuropas. This is a serious book with a lot of
pharmacology, healing effects, side efects, spectacular tales of poisonings
(accidents with ergot) and misuse (oleander for abortion) and tidbits of
folklore (inuit drinking other mushroom-eater's ur**e because
muscarine comes out just as potent as it went in). This is my favorite book, but
I'm sure you can find similar books in English as
well.
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