The delphic bee: Bees and toxic honeys as pointers to psychoactive and other medicinal plants

Economic Botany

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 260-266

  Ott, Jonathan ^a  

^a Natural Products Co   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Balche; Entheogens; Lonchocarpus violaceus; Mayan Indians; Meads; Turbina corymbosa

Indexed keywords

APOIDEA; LONCHOCARPUS PUNCTATUS; TURBINA CORYMBOSA;

EID: 0031656730     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02862143     Document Type: Article

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