LINKS to Herbal Medical sites

Michael Moore's homepage - quality information on herbal medicine, including manuals, classic texts, and images: http://chili.rt66.com/hrbmoore/HOMEPAGE

Howie Brounstein's homepage - interesting articles on eg. herbal smokes, fad herbs and wildcraftting: http://www.teleport.com/~howieb/howie.html

Jonathan Treasure's Herbal Bookworm site: http://www.teleport.com/~jonno/ - good in-depth reviews of recent books on herbal medicine, a list of good books, a list of stinkers; as a whole it's a nice setup, with Reality Check and all

Herbal Hall, the one and only: http://www.herb.com/herbal.htm - warning: you need a java enabled browser to fully appreciate this site

Paul Bergner's Medical Herbalism : http://www.medherb.com - quality articles and links, geared towards the herbal practitioner

Michael Tierra's site: http://www.planetherbs.com/ - mostly TCM -style herbal articles

Robyn's Recommended Reading: http://www.wtp.net/~rrr - interesting reading, also for the professional herbalist

Nigel Wynn's Mediterranean Medicinal Plants -site has a few nice surprises, too: http://www.datops.com/friends/aldeia/medherbs

Try Susan Kramer's site: http://www.earthways.com/

You could go see what the American Herbalists Guild is doing ,at http://www.healthy.com/herbalists/

Or have a look at what's on this month at the Herb Society (U.K.) (quality articles for the novice): http://metalab.unc.edu/herbmed/HerbSociety

The Healthy.net site is good, with a search engine giving you articles by David Hoffmann and Christopher Hobbs, among others: http://www.healthy.net/Architext/AT-Completequery.html, or try their Herbal Information Center: http://www.healthy.net/clinic/therapy/herbal/herbic/index.html

A Modern Herbal, by Mrs M. Grieve,Originally published in 1931, the complete (searchable) text of the 2-volume, 900-page materia medica

Henriette's Herbal Frequently Asked Questions about Medicinal & Culinary herbs.

Medicinal Herb FAQ This is a large info file put together by Henriette Kress.

Howie Brounstein's Home Page Herbal treats - info & links.

Algy's Herb Page Comprehensive index and archive of herb information, including a seed catalogue

Gypsy Folk Medicine Gypsy wisdom and herbal remedies.

Herbal Information Center Information about some of the more common herbs.

Alternative Nature Links Page An ever-growing gallery of herb information and links. Here's the Terra di Toscana herb pages: http://www.terraditoscana.com/uk0907f.htm

A good Spanish site: http://www.cofaran.es/fcont95.html

Go for the AANP site, with their extensive library of articles:http://www.naturopathic.org/articles.lay/article.index.html

Check the herbal files at Delicious! online: http://www.delicious-online.com/story_index/herb_stories.html

Try the Herb Research Foundation -site, with its slant towards scientific phytotherapy: http://www.herbs.org (warning: you need to read Jonno's review of the Honest Herbal before you decide to buy any of Tyler's work)

Go for Jim Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases: http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/

The Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute -pages, focused on chinese herbs: http://www.rmhiherbal.org

This site: http://www.HealthWWWeb.com has lots of alternative healthcare resource links

Frontier Herb has good articles on herbal medicine here: http://www.frontierherb.com/fch/seminar_notes/index.html. Or read their plea for goldenseal: http://www.frontierherb.com/goldenseal/

The Herbnet, a nice setup: http://www.herbnet.com/

Nutrition Science News is online - and searchable (try 'herb'): http://www.nutritionsciencenews.com/

The MediHerb homepage: http://www.mediherb.com/ MediHerb is -the- quality text provider in Australia , and also one of the quality extract providers in Australia - but only to practitioners

The Acupuncture homepage - excellent pages: http://www.Acupuncture.com/, also featuring a Real Gem: http://www.Acupuncture.com/Herbology/Fairy.htm

The Merck Manual, 16th edition, is online at: http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/html/sectoc.htm - no, actually it's offline, they're working on an online version of the 17th edition

GOOD MATERIA MEDICAS

In addition to Michael Moore's own Materia Medica (manuals) you'll find olde Eclectic tomes (other manuals, Felter) on his site: http://chili.rt66.com/hrbmoore/HOMEPAGE

Ed Greenwood has scanned + OCR:d + HTML:d the full Modern Herbal (from 1931 or so) by Maude Grieve: http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/mgmh.html

Yrttitarhasta löydät monenmoista yrttitietoa: http://www.lpkky.fi//yrttitarha

Naturapotheke, a German site with about 50 plants: http://www.med-online.de/natap/

Das kleine Heilpflanzen-Brevier, also about 50 plants, by Klaus Zoellner: http://www.rga-net.de/~zoellner/h_index.htm

Die kleine Kräuterhexe, eine recht sympatische Seite die Du auch herunterladen kannst: http://www.folk.de/kraeuterhexe/ -  - added 25Jan99

Die Bad Heilbrunner Selbstmedikationsdatenbank, highly technical, with about 150 plants and some vitamins: http://tee.org

The Eclectic Physician Herb Monograph Index, info by Elizabeth Burch N.D.: http://www.teleport.com/~dburch/herbindex.shtml

A Materia Medica by David Hoffmann: http://www.healthy.net/Architext/AT-Completequery.html

Garden Net's homepage: http://gardennet.com

BOTANY

DELTA Descriptions of flowering plants, a treasuretrove for botanists: http://biodiversity.uno.edu/delta/angio/index.htm

another must for the botanically inclined, from the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service: The PLANTS National Database at http://trident.ftc.nrcs.usda.gov/plants/

Have you seen the nee-how bioresource finder? An amazing amount of links: http://biology.neehow.org/

For all Finns: The Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Finland: http://www.helsinki.fi/kmus/chklst.html

And for those tonguewrenching 'mercans (with their gruesome pronounciations), here's how you should do the latin names: http://www.rt66.com/~telp/latin.htm (Arctou-steifilous juva-jursai my behind - give me clean Finnish/Swedish/German pronounciations any day, and an air hostess who understands that I want coffee the first time I ask for it...)

The Garden Gate: http://www.prairienet.org/garden-gate/

The Gardening Launch Pad: http://www.tpoint.net/neighbor/

A Finnish collection of botany links: http://www.helsinki.fi/kmus/botmenu.html

Scott's botanical links: http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/bot-linx/

CULINARY HERBS

The whole herb site: neat setup, nice articles, also featuring a chat room and bulletin board: http://www.wholeherb.com/

The GardenGuide pages: http://www.gardenguides.com/

Lawrence London's MetaLab archives page: http://metalab.unc.edu/london/Information_By_Topic.html

The Time Gardening Encyclopedia site: http://pathfinder.com/cgi-bin/VG/vg

Need to find info on, say, pumpkins? Try the iSleuth page for agriculture: http://www.isleuth.com/agri.html

The Weekend Gardener / The Official Seed Starting Homepage / Herb Seeds: http://www.chestnut-sw.com/seeds/herbseed.htm

Here's an extensive site with a lot of information on culinary herbs and spices - just browse around: http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/engl/index.html

You'll find the G-files on the greenweb: http://www.boldweb.com/greenweb.htm

The Sustainable Farming Connection, a nice site for farmers: http://metalab.unc.edu/farming-connection/