Internet Sites

 

 

Top of the Crop

Lists of Resources

Herbal Medicines Sites

Organizations

Government Agencies

 

 

Top of the Crop

 

Botanical Medicine Information Resources from the Rosenthal Center

http://www.rosenthal.hs.columbia.edu/Botanicals.html

Produced by the Rosenthal Center at Columbia University. Provides an annotated listing of databases, journals, email lists, and web sites.

 

Lists of Resources

 

Medherb.com

http://www.medherb.com/

Provides links to medical information and to any resource relevant to medicinal herbs or herbalism practiced in a clinical setting.

 

Southwest School of Botanical Medicine

http://www.all-natural.com/herbindx.html 

Links to medicinal plant images, manuals, research sites, and more.

 

Scirus

http://www.scirus.com  

A “scientific information only” search engine; Developed by Elsevier.

 

 

Herbal Medicines Sites

 

Botanical.com

http://www.botanical.com/index.html 

Over 800 varieties of medicinal, culinary, and cosmetic herbs, including conomic properties, cultivation and folk-lore.

 

Henriette's Herbal Homepage

http://www.henriettesherbal.com

Contains several active medicinal and herbal FAQs, newsgroups, software programs, and plant pictures.

 

Longwood Herbal Task Force

http://www.longwoodherbal.org 

Produced by an interdisciplinary tean of health care professionals. Evidence based monographs, patient and clinician handouts are available. 

 

Medicinal Herb Garden

http://nlm.gov/pnr/uwmhg/ 

The site consists mostly of photographs of the various medicinal plants indexed by botanical and common names with links to further information about its range and medicinal uses.

 

 

Organizations

 

American Herbalists Guild

http://www.americanherbalistsguild.com 

A non-profit, educational organization which represents the goals and voices of herbalists. It is the only peer-review organization for professional herbalists specializing in the medicinal use of plants.

 

ConsumerLab.com

http://www.consumerlab.com

Evaluates nutritional and herbal supplements in a lab environment. Subscription necessary to access full text reports.

 

 

Government Agencies

 

Ethnobot Database

http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/

Provided by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), U.S. Department of Agriculture. The database contains 80,000 records of plant uses world-wide.

 

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

http://nccam.nih.gov 

A great source of scientifically based information on CAM, produced by one of the centers of the National Institutes of Health. Includes publications, information for researches, FAQs, and links to other CAM-related websites. Provides access to such databases as CAM on PubMed and the Combined Health Information Database (CHID), a reference source of patient education materials.

 

Littleflower's Medicinal Plants of North America

http://www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/Mall/4992/medmain.html

Contains 17,634 items representing the medicinal uses of 2,147 species from 760 genera and 142 families by 123 different native American groups.

 

USDA Plants National Database

http://plants.usda.gov  

The PLANTS Database provides a single source of standardized information about plants including standardized plant names, symbols and other plant attribute information.

 

 

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