Amazonian plants — multilingual resources

Only sources we have opened or verified. If a widget once said “Amazon+15,” it is gone. European field guides that never left the Alps are gone. Reddit is gone.

English

Richard Evans Schultes & Robert F. Raffauf. The Healing Forest: Medicinal and Toxic Plants of the Northwest Amazonia. Dioscorides Press, 1990. About 1,479 species and variants from a lifetime in the northwest Amazon. Still the English-language backbone. Wellcome record.
James A. Duke & Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez. Amazonian Ethnobotanical Dictionary. CRC, 1994. More than a thousand species; Spanish/English index. DOI 10.1201/9781315137193.
Mark J. Plotkin. Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice. Narrative ethnobotany and conservation; use it as a door, not as a pharmacopoeia.
William Balée. Footprints of the Forest: Ka’apor Ethnobotany. How one Amazonian people actually uses plants — ecology plus names, not a recipe book.
Luis Eduardo Luna. “The concept of plants as teachers among four mestizo shamans of Iquitos.” Journal of Ethnopharmacology 11 (1984): 135–156. DOI. Then his 1986 book Vegetalismo.
Dennis J. McKenna, G.H.N. Towers & F.S. Abbott. “Monoamine oxidase inhibitors in South American hallucinogenic plants…” J. Ethnopharmacol. 10 (1984): 195–223. PMID 6587171.

Español

Eduardo Estrella. Plantas medicinales amazónicas: realidad y perspectivas. Tratado de Cooperación Amazónica, Lima, 1995 (302 p.). Free PDF from OTCA: otca.org.
Jauregui, Clavo, Jovel, Pardo-de-Santayana. “Plantas con madre.” J. Ethnopharmacol. 134 (2011): 739–752. PMID 21295130.
Sanz-Biset & Cañigueral. Dietas estrictas en Chazuta. J. Ethnopharmacol. 137 (2011): 271–288. DOI.

Deutsch / Français

We removed Köhler’s 19th-century European atlas and Beiser’s Alpine guide. They are fine books for Central European weeds. They are not Amazonian resources. Until we hold a German or French monograph that is actually about this flora, use Schultes (EN) and Estrella (ES). We will not pad this page with filler.