Links and Third Party information
General Herbal Research and Informational Sites
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. |
Title : Holistic Alternative Medicine |
Dr. Subhuti Dharmananda and the Institute of Traditional Medicine -High caliber articles on Chinese medicine. One must read, is Drug interaction. |
Traditional Chinese & Western Herbal Medicine in Humans & Animals |
Self Improvement from SelfGrowth.com URL of website is: http://www.selfgrowth.com |
MDHealthLine.com |
Dr. James Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases - Scientific information on botanicals. It's all here on Jim Duke's database. |
Health World Online - Covers several different issues. Review their online Herbal Materia Medica. |
Rosacea, Body Acne and Anti Aging Skin Care |
Chinese Herbal Tea |
Backyard Herbalist A nice site that covers all sorts of topic such as cooking, cleaning, gardening. |
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. |
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. |
Diabetes Medicine Info |
Herbasin Herbal Data Base in English and Chinese Easy to read and sorted |
Herb Reference Loads of information including Common Health ailments |
Nail Abnormalities: Pictures and information on what nail abnormalities |
Tongue Diagnosis: Check out these pictures, and what our tongues say about our bodies |
Online Pet Shop Description: Pet Club UK offer a wide range of pet supplies and products for a variety of different animals. |
Circle of Healers- Where holistic healers meet...discussion forums, daily health journal, articles, a practitioners directory and more! |
Directory World sources |
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
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CAM on PubMed: 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
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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
California School of Herbal Studies |
National College of Natural Medicine Portland, OR 97201 |
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) |
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 |
East West School of Herbology (Correspondence Courses Available) Michael and Leslie Tierra BOX 275, Ben Lomond, CA 95005 (800) 717-5010 www.planetherbs.com |
School of Natural Healing (Correspondence Courses Available) PO Box 412 Springville, UT 84663 (800) 372-8255 |
Foundations of Herbalism (Correspondence Courses Available) Christopher Hobbs 35170 Lillian Drive Philomath, OR 97370 (541) 929-5307 |
Sierra Institute of Herbal Studies
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Global College of Natural Medicine (Correspondence Courses Available) 250 Natural Bridges Drive Santa Cruz, CA 95060 (831) 458-4196 |
Australasian College of Health Sciences Fax- (503) 244-0727
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Herbal Transitions Sharol Tilgner PO Box 523 Pleasant Hill, OR 97455 |
Living Awareness Institute PO Box 5381
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Clayton College of Natural Health 2140 11th Avenue South Suite 305 Birmingham, AL 35205 |
Northeast School of Botanical Medicine PO Box 6626 Ithaca, NY 14851 |
Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine Asheville, NC 28802 |
Sacred Plant Traditions Center for Herbal Studies Charlottesville, VA 22902 |
Heart of Herbs (Correspondence Courses Available) Demetria Clark 48 Commonwealth Ave, Springfield, VT 05156 (866) 303-HERB |
Sage Mountain |
Mountain Spirit School of Herbalism (at the North Carolina School of Natural Healing) Michelle Middleton Asheville, NC 28804 |
Tai Sophia Institute for the Healing Arts 7750 Montpelier Road Laurel, MD 20723 (800) 735-2968 |
The North Carolina School of Holistic Herbalism 2 Westwood Place Asheville, NC 28806 (828) 350-1221 |
Wise Woman Center (Correspondence Courses Available) Susun Weed PO BOX 64, Woodstock, NY 12498 (845) 246-8081 |
Industry Related Organizations
NPI Center - Natural Products Industry Center, informative industry news website.. |
Nutra USA - Novis Nutraingredients News and Information Website for the USA |
Medscape Comprehensive Allopathic Medicine site with Medline searches and more. |
Pub Med Also through the National Library of Medicine |
Industry Magazines and Journals
Virgo Publishing - Trade magazines and Supply Side industry trade shows. |
Health Supplement Retailer Magazine - Virgo's retailer trade magazine |
NaturalProductsInsider.com - Virgo Communication's online ingredient buyer's guide |
Delicious Living Magazine - New Hope Natural Media's consumer magazine |
Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients - An alternative medicine publication |
Nutraceuticals World Magazine - Rodman Publishing's industry trade magazine, targeting nutraceutical products manufacturers. |