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Michael
Moore - SW School of Botanical Medicine.- Educational,
Informative and Professional. This site is full with good
articles and photgraphs. Take the time to bookmark
this site. 5 star information.
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Traditional
Chinese & Western Herbal Medicine in Humans &
Animals
Very full site, some links are dead, but others are
excellent.
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MDHealthLine.com
Title: Menopause
Description: Doctor recommended herbal alternatives for
prescription medication.
URL: http://www.mdhealthline.com
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Health
World Online - Covers several different issues. Review
their online
Herbal Materia Medica.
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Rosacea, Body Acne and Anti Aging Skin Care
URL: http://www.reverta.com
Reverta offers all-natural skin care including treatment of
rosacea, body acne and the effects of aging upon the skin. |
Chinese Herbal Tea
URL: http://www.tcmdiscovery.com/Herbaltea.asp
Herbal Tea website introduce some Chinese tea that contain
no calories, caffeine and are alcohol free. There many
fomulars of the tea which can keep healthy even cure
illness.
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Backyard
Herbalist A nice site that covers all sorts of
topic such as cooking, cleaning, gardening.
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Steven
Foster Group, Inc. - Steven is a renowned herbalist
and author. This site features his stunning herb
photography services. Photographer Martin Wall is
also represented by this group.
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American
Herbal Pharmacopoeia - Roy Upton's inspiring effort
to bring the state of herbal monographs on planet Earth to
a much higher caliber. Herbal medicines have
provided the world's populations, including Americans,
with safe, effective and low cost medicines for centuries.
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Diabetes Medicine Info
'Diabetes Heal portal'
URL www.diabetesheal.com.
Diabetes
is a disorder that affects the way your body uses food for
energy. Normally, the sugar you take in is digested and
broken down to a simple sugar, known as glucose. The glucose
then circulates in your blood where it waits to enter cells
to be used as fuel... Read
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The
Wikipedia page on Herbs and Herbal medicine
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Herbasin
Herbal Data Base in English and Chinese
Easy to read
and sorted
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Herb
Reference
Loads of information including Common Health
ailments
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Nail
Abnormalities:
Pictures and information on what nail
abnormalities
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Tongue
Diagnosis:
Check out these pictures, and what our
tongues say about our bodies
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Circle
of Healers
- Where holistic healers
meet...discussion forums, daily health journal, articles, a
practitioners directory and more!
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Internet Resources
AGRICOLA
(AGRICultural OnLine Access): access to bibliographic data on how to
grow herbs and medicinal plants and includes references from The
Herb Research Foundations' HerbalGram
Great for resource for research.
The
American Herbal Pharmacopoeia: produce authoritative
herbal monographs containing accurate, critically reviewed
information on botanicals which can provide guidance in the
appropriate use of herbal therapeutics"
American
Herbal Products Association: promotes the responsible
commerce of products which contain herbs. Timely news
from the Association, keeping you informed of important
developments.
American
Herbalists Guild : primary goal is to promote a
high level of professionalism and education in the study and
practice of therapeutic herbalism. "only peer-review organization
for professional herbalists specializing in the medicinal use of
plants"
Associations-International
and United States, HerbNET: A directory which lists
many of the associations and organizations
Botanical
Medicine Information Resources: Rosenthal Center for
Complementary and Alternative Medicine, links to virtual
gardens, legal information, databases, journals, mailing
lists, regulatory information
British
Herbal Medicine Association (BHMA) BRITISH
HERBAL COMPENDIUM Volume 2
A handbook of scientific information on widely used plant drugs
This
new volume of the Compendium, written by Peter Bradley, former
Chairman of the ESCOP Scientific Committee, is the most ambitious
work ever published by the BHMA. In a concise and readable style the
monographs summarize and review the evidence base for many important
phytomedicines, providing up-to-date information of interest to
everyone in the field.
Chinese
Herbal Sciences, Education and Research. Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute (RMHI)
ConsumerLab.com:
Their mission: To identify the best quality health and
nutrition products through independent testing. independent
testing of herbs and health & nutrition products
for purity, potency, bio-availability, and consistency and gives an
approved quality seal
Creating
an Herbal Apothecary: An Implementation Guide: Reports from the publishers of Strategic Health Care Marketing
Ethnobotanical
Resource Directory: The Ethnobotanical Resource
Directory is a collection of more than 150 links which are divided
into 12 areas. links to
"information on useful plants (food, medicine, material for
textiles, etc.) and harmful plants (plant pathology, poisonous
plants, weeds)"
EthnoMedicinals.com,
Anthony R. Torkelson, Ph. D., Research Scientist, Department of
Pharmacokinetics, Bioanalytical, and Radiochemistry, G.D. Searle
Research and Development: "information on the use of herbs and
other natural products in biochemistry, pharmacology, and
traditional medicine"
European
Herbal Practitioners Association:
Representing Herbal & Traditional Medicine Practitioners
Across Europe
Flower
Essence Society: Interesting reading on promoting plant research and
empirical clinical research on the therapeutic effects of flower
essences"
Herb
Research Foundation: Power packed with all sorts of information.
This nonprofit research and educational
organization focusing on herbs and medicinal plants. Publishes HerbalGram
and maintains Herb
World News Online includes research reviews and world,
science, industry and political news
Herbal
Medicine, Medlineplus, National Library of Medicine
HerbDotCom:
Home of the Professional Herbalists Discussion List
HerbMed™
- " herbal database – provides hyperlinked access to the
scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health. It is an
evidence-based information resource for professionals, researchers
and general public, project of the Alternative Medicine
Foundation"
Longwood
Herbal Task Force: The Herbs and Supplements monographs
and clinician information from Children's Hospital, the
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and the Dana
Farber Cancer Institute, Boston Massachusetts
Medherb.com,
A Clinical Journal for the Herbal
Practitioner: great links and resources
Medicinal
Herb Garden at the University of Washington, Seattle, a
resource of images for herbalists, medics, and botanists at all
levels.
Medicinal
and Poisonous Plant Databases, Michael C. Tims: taxonomy,
biochemistry and uses
Memorial Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York: Information
Resource: About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products:
"objective information for oncologists and healthcare
professionals, including a clinical summary for each agent and
details about constituents, adverse effects, interactions, and
potential benefits or problems"
A
Mini-Course in MEDICAL BOTANY SYLLABUS , James A. Duke,
Ethnobotanist
Learn about Medical Botany
The Mycological
Society of America: "the study of fungi including
mushrooms, truffles, yeasts, lichens, plant pathogens and medically
important fungi"
National
Nutritional Foods Association: "represents the
interests of some 3,000 retailers and 1,000 manufacturers, suppliers
and distributors of health foods, dietary supplements, natural
ingredient cosmetics and other natural products": maintains
"industry's only self-regulatory testing program, which fosters
quality assurance"
New
York Botanical Garden: Gardening Classes, as well as
Botanical Art. Continuing Education: offers a
variety of classes on herbs and medicinal plant research
Phytotherapies.org
free service to individuals registering with the site, Access
to Herbal data base. Which is easy to use. "sponsored by Herbwork Corporation, an Australian company
dedicated to ensuring that practitioners are supplied not only with
high quality herbal medicine, but also clinically relevant,
scientifically validated technical information, and Phytomedicine,
manufacturer quality herbal extracts for practitioners." Even
though it is a commercial service the herbal monograph database
contains indications, actions, constituents, studies & articles.
St.
John's Wort, National Institutes of Health, National
Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The
Society for Economic Botany: News, Newsletter, publications,
and articles. established to
"encourage scientific research in the past, present and future
uses of plants"
Shanghai
Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of
Sciences: Absolutely fascinating information. leading organization in drug discovery in traditional
Chinese medicine (TCM)
Southwest
School of Botanical Medicine Home Page: Albuquerque,
New Mexico: links to herb resources, medicinal plant images,
botanical and medical glossary and information on this school.
Spices
Exotic Flavors and Medicines, Spices Spices, and more
Spices! History and Special
Collections, University of California, Los Angeles, Louise M.
Darling Biomedical Library: descriptions, history, medicinal properties,
and historical view of individual spices
Tang
Center for Herbal Medicine Research, The recent
discoveries section is of great interest. University of
Chicago: investigate efficacy and safety of medicinal herbs and
other dietary supplements supported by world-wide
collaborations"
Data Bases
Databases: Alternative
Medicine Resources
Please note, several of these will require passwords
CRISP
(Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects)
A little difficult to navigate because of its size, but well worth
the effort. database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted
at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions. These
projects are funded by theNational Institutes of Health (NIH),
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA), Health
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP),
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and Office of
Assistant Secretary of Health (OASH)
ClinicalTrials.gov:
locate current information on disease treatment at particular
institution or by a disease, drug, modality, therapy or procedure.
Search by letter.
Dr.
Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases, Specific
Queries of the Phytochemical Database
Directory
of Databases, Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Center for
Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Columbia Presbyterian
Medical Center, New York : "compilation of established sources
in the USA, Eur ope and Asia, designed to facilitate research by
both professionals and the public. This may be clinical, biomedical,
review, meta-analytical or survey research. The listing is
hyperlinked to existing Web sites where available, or to brief
information on the resource, such as: how to obtain further details;
type of literature covered; size of the holding; and mode of
access"
EMBASE
: an international database to citations covering the biomedical,
pharmacological and drug literature. Detailed description can be
found at the EMBASE
home page
HerbMed™
- " herbal database – provides hyperlinked access to the
scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health. It is an
evidence-based information resource for professionals, researchers
and general public, project of the Alternative Medicine
Foundation"
The
Hom-Inform Database of indexed literature references in
homoeopathy.
Index
to Chiropractic Literature: bibliographic citations
produced by "the Chiropractic Library Consortium (CLIBCON: a
group of health science librarians working in chiropractic colleges
throughout the world whose goal is to improve access to the
chiropractic literature"
The
International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS)
database:
To notch data base. 5 Star rating "produced by the Office of Dietary
Supplements, National Institutes of Health, in conjunction with the
Food and Nutrition Information Center, National Agricultural
Library, United States Department of Agriculture. IBIDS contains
bibliographic records, including abstracts published in
international scientific journals on the topic of dietary
supplements, including vitamins, minerals, herbal and botanical
supplements. The general public, scientists, researchers, and other
interested parties will be able to search the database using
keywords to obtain the citations of research journal articles."
NAPRALERT,
NAtural PRoducts ALERT from STN
International: contains bibliographic and factual data on
natural products, including information on the
pharmacology,biological activity, taxonomic distribution,
ethno-medicine and chemistry of plant, microbial, and animal
(including marine)extracts. In addition, the file contains data on
the chemistry and pharmacology of secondary metabolites that are
derived from natural sources and that have known structure. The
NAPRALERT File contains more than 100,000 records from 1650 to the
present. Approximately 50% of the file is from systematic survey of
the literature from 1975 to the present. The remaining records were
obtained by selective retrospective indexing dating back to 1650.
National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine
: bibliographic citations obtained from the
National Library of Medicine's PubMed (Medline) database that
uses a feature to locate citations with a CAM
subset database search
NCCAM
Grantee Publications Database: provides citations of
publications by NCCAM grantees. It represents the results of NCCAM-funded
research.
Native
American Ethnobotany Database , Dan Moerman, Professor
of Anthropology, University of Michigan-Dearborn: "foods,
drugs, dyes, fibers and other uses of plants (a total of over 47,000
items). This represents uses by 291 Native American groups of 3,895
species from 243 different plant families."
Natural
Standard, "an international research collaboration
synthesizes data on complementary and alternative therapies. Using a
comprehensive methodology and reproducible grading scales,
information is created that is evidence-based, consensus-based, and
peer-reviewed, tapping into the collective expertise of a
multidisciplinary Editorial Board". Register and
subscription required to use. Information arranged by herbs
and supplements, conditions and alternative modalities.
Online
Archive of American Folk Medicine, Super
simple to use. "For more than
fifty years, folklorists associated with the University of
California, Los Angeles have systematically documented beliefs and
practices relating to folk medicine and alternative healthcare. In
order to make the data more readily available to the worldwide
community of researchers and medical practitioners, this Archive was
established in 1996 under the direction of Dr. Michael Owen Jones, a
professor of folklore and history at UCLA.
Patent
Database, United States Patent and Trademark Office:
tool to locate registered patents in complementary and alternative
medicine
Phytotherapies.org
free service to individuals registering with the site,
"sponsored by Herbworx Corporation, an Australian company
dedicated to ensuring that practitioners are supplied not only with
high quality herbal medicine, but also clinically relevant,
scientifically validated technical information, and Phytomedicine,
manufacturer quality herbal extracts for practitioners." Even
though it is a commercial service the herbal monograph database
contains indications, actions, constituents, studies & articles.
Poisonous
Plant Database , FDA Office of Regulatory
Affairs. United States Food & Drug
Administration, Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition,
Office of Plant and Dairy Foods and Beverages
The
Special Nutritionals Adverse Event Monitoring System ,
United States Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety
& Applied Nutrition, Office of Special Nutritionals: database of
adverse effects from the use of a special nutritional products:
dietary supplements, infant formulas and medical foods"
reported to this agency by the health professional or consumer Note:
This database/website has been removed. Read the information at Adverse
Event Reporting Dietary Supplements, United States
Department of Health and Human Services, United States Food &
Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition
Education Links - Learning about Herbs
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California School of Herbal Studies
PO BOX 39, Forestville, CA 95436
(707) 887-7457
www.cshs.com
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National College of
Natural Medicine
049 SW Porter St
Portland, OR 97201
(503) 499-0027
www.ncnm.edu
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The Columbine School of Botanical Studies
Howie Brounstein
PO BOX 50532, Eugene, OR 97405
(541) 687-7114 |
North American
Institute of Medical Herbalism
(Correspondence
Courses Available)
Paul Bergner
PO Box 20512
Boulder, CO 80308
(303) 541-9552
www.naimh.com
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Down to Earth Workshops
Donna D'Terra
PO BOX 382, Willits, CA 95490
(707) 459-5030 |
The Northwest School for Botanical Studies
Christa Sinadinos
Post Office Box 4543
Arcata, CA 95518
(707)-826-7762
www.herbaleducation.net
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East West School of Herbology
EXCELLENT COURSES,
(Correspondence Courses Available)
Michael and Leslie Tierra
BOX 275, Ben Lomond, CA 95005
(800) 717-5010
www.planetherbs.com
5 Star rating |
School of Natural Healing
(Correspondence Courses Available)
PO Box 412
Springville, UT 84663
(800) 372-8255
http://www.schoolofnaturalhealing.com/snh_cc.htm
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Foundations of
Herbalism
(Correspondence
Courses Available)
Christopher
Hobbs
35170
Lillian Drive
Philomath,
OR 97370
(541)
929-5307
www.foundationsofherbalism.com
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Sierra Institute of
Herbal Studies
Dodie Harte
PO BOX 426, Big Oak Flat, CA 95305
(209) 962-7425
www.sierra-institute.com
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Global College
of Natural Medicine
(Correspondence
Courses Available)
250
Natural Bridges Drive
Santa
Cruz, CA 95060
(831)
458-4196
www.gcnm.com
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Australasian
College of Health Sciences
5940 SW Hood Ave, Portland, OR 97239
(800) 487-8839
Fax-
(503) 244-0727
www.achs.edu
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Herbal Transitions
Sharol Tilgner
PO Box 523
Pleasant Hill, OR 97455
www.herbaltransitions.com
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Living Awareness
Institute
Kami McBride
PO Box 5381
Vacaville, CA 95695
(707) 446-1290
www.livingawareness.com
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Clayton College
of Natural Health
2140
11th Avenue South Suite 305
Birmingham, AL 35205
(800) 995–4590
http://www.ccnh.edu
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Northeast
School of Botanical Medicine
7Song
PO Box
6626
Ithaca, NY 14851
(607) 539-7172
http://www.7song.com
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Blue Ridge School of
Herbal Medicine
PO Box 213
Asheville, NC 28802
(828) 275-6221
http://www.blueridgeschool.org
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Sacred Plant
Traditions Center for Herbal Studies
Kathleen Maier
PO Box 1313
Charlottesville, VA 22902
(434) 295-3820
www.sacredplanttraditions.com
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Heart of Herbs
(Correspondence Courses Available)
Demetria Clark
48 Commonwealth Ave, Springfield, VT 05156
(866) 303-HERB
www.heartofherbs.com |
Sage Mountain
(Correspondence Courses Available)
Rosemary Gladstar
PO BOX 420, East Barre VT 05649
(802) 479-9825
www.sagemountain.com
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Mountain
Spirit School of Herbalism
(at
the North Carolina School of Natural Healing)
Michelle
Middleton
1054 Riverside Drive
Asheville, NC 28804
(866) 446-2764
http://www.ncsnh.com
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Tai Sophia Institute for the Healing Arts
7750 Montpelier Road
Laurel, MD 20723
(800) 735-2968
www.tai.edu
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The North Carolina School of Holistic Herbalism
2 Westwood Place
Asheville, NC 28806
(828) 350-1221
www.herbsheal.com
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Wise Woman Center
(Correspondence Courses Available)
Susun Weed
PO BOX 64, Woodstock, NY 12498
(845) 246-8081
www.susunweed.com |
Industry Related
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NPI
Center - Natural Products Industry
Center, informative industry news website..
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Nutra
USA - Novis Nutraingredients News and
Information Website for the USA
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Medscape
Comprehensive Allopathic Medicine site with Medline
searches and more.
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Pub
Med
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Library of Medicine
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