For the Love of Opium - (The Magic Garden) by W E Simmons (Paperback)

About the Book

The book that could end the opioid epidemic, Opium: Nature's Most Powerful Medicine, is an herbal option to end the suffering and addiction to man-made opiates. History influenced, art and literature inspired, and all For the Love of Opium.

Book Synopsis

From Roman emperors to the most famous Queen of Egypt, from Mary Shelley to Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Dickens to Pablo Picasso, so much of art and history were inspired by the one and only plant that nature saw fit to deliver us from pain, both physical, mental, and spiritual. It gave us our very first medicine, our first extracted alkaloid, and our first controlled substance. Man's quest to improve nature gave us our first unstoppable addiction.

The book that could end the opioid epidemic, For the Love of Opium, begins with a historical account of Opium use in polite society prior to its criminalization. Author W. E. Simmons examines its influence on history, art, and literature, including how it inspired the most famous monsters of the horror genre. We learn what Opium is, the alkaloids that produce its effects, and how they work together and independently. We also learn why science has failed to make a safer and less addictive version of nature's strongest medicine and how one can make one's own safer pain medication. Pharmaceutical-grade opiates cause the opioid epidemic. Opium: Nature's Most Powerful Medicine, is an herbal option to end the suffering and addiction of man-made opiates.

Review Quotes

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium, Its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion- Thomas De Quincey

What's a throuple? - Mary Shelley

I do not readily believe that any man having once tasted the divine luxuries of opium will afterwards descend to the gross and mortal enjoyments of alcohol. - Thomas De Quincey

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. - Cleopatra

[H]ere was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered: happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket; portable ecstacies might be had corked up in a pint bottle, and peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach. - Thomas De Quincey

The most informative book on Opium of our time. A must-read for anyone interested in the sordid history of the substance. - W. E. Simmons

Finally, some credit! - John William Polidori