Last updated 25Sep2009 - links last checked 18Sep2008.
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Feel free to send me URLs to check out for inclusion on this page. Note, however, that I don't do reciprocal links. That means that you'll really only find links to sites I like on this page. Note also that I only link to commercial sites if they have no blinking or moving text, no moving pictures, and lots of information.
Herbal medicine - Good Materia Medicas - Botany - Culinary herbs - Other fun things
Herbal medicine, mostly: Herbalists
- Michael Moore - quality information on herbal medicine, including manuals, classic texts, and images
- Jonathan Treasure's Herbal Bookworm includes critical in-depth reviews of major herbal sellers and herb-drug interaction info, among other things. Jonno also has a blog.
- Paul Bergner's Medical Herbalism (see medicinal herbfaq part 6.3): quality articles and links, geared towards the herbal practitioner (includes the full text of the Medical Herbalism from 1989 to 2000 - clicky on "search" or "Materia Medica" or "Therapeutics" - I'll note that almost all of the recent issues have included invaluable leading articles.)
- David Winston's site, including a nice selection of scanned classic texts.
- Michigan herbalist Jim McDonald interesting in-depth articles about a few plants.
- Carol Rogers' site. Gotta love a woman who puts her book ("The Women's Guide to Herbal Medicine") online after it's gone out of print. What's even better is, it's a very good book! - added 18Sep2008
- Alan Tillotson's site: Ayurvedic and Chinese herbal medicine
- Matt Wood: interesting herbal articles.
- Robin Rose Bennett. Get her Wild carrots article while you're there.
- Karen Bergeron has articles and photos online
- Todd Caldecott - Ayurvedic and Western herbal medicine
- Christopher Hobbs
- Michael Tierra - mostly TCM -style herbal articles
- Howie Brounstein - articles on herbal smokes, fad herbs and wildcrafting
- Rosemary Gladstar. Note, her home study course is quite outdated, with bits hanging on pretty much unchanged since 1980 ... I wouldn't do it as my first choice.
- Brigitte Mars
- Tieraona Low Dog
- Susun Weed
- Jaime De La Barrera
- Joshua Muscat's SanFran BotMed Clinic site
- Hall Newbegin is cool, and he sells herbs'n'soaps'n'stuff
- Graham White
- Jeanne Rose
- Karyn Sanders
- Katolen Yardley
- Robert McDowell
- Suzanne E. Sky
- Charlie Kane
- Gail Faith Edwards
- Merry Lycett Harrison (a fellow SWSBM'er)
Herbalist organizations:
- The National Institute of Medical Herbalists (NIMH)
- The Irish Medical Herbalists Organisation, under the National Herbal Council in Ireland (Five different registers for one country? That sounds a bit much, but hey, whatever works.)
- The National Herbalists Association of Australia (NHAA)
- The American Herbalists Guild (AHG)
- The Ontario Herbalists Association (OHA)
- The International Register of Consultant Herbalists and Homoeopaths (in the UK)
- The New Zealand Association of Medical Herbalists (NZAMH)
- The Herbalist Association of Nova Scotia (HANS) (also in Canada)
Databases
- Jim Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
- Dan Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database
- The herbmed database, with links to research and things
Other
- The Herb Society of America
- The UK Herb Society, with a good forum
- The Merck Manual
- A comprehensive glycemic index site - you need this if you have blood sugar problems
- Tapes of herbal conferences and a conference calendar
- The Herb Research Foundation, slanted towards scientific phytotherapy - you need to read Jonno's review of the Honest Herbal before you decide to buy any of Tyler's work, and read Jonno's review of the Comm. E Monographs before deciding to buy that exceedingly expensive set of committee compromises.
- Most of the Suite101 article collections are worthwile, especially if you're new to herbs. Check, for instance, these: historical_plants - herbal_medicine - herbalism - herbal healing (Susun Weed) - botanical - or just do a search for "botanical medicine" here: http://www.suite101.com
Herbal medicine - Good Materia Medicas - Botany - Culinary herbs - Other fun things
Good Materia Medicas
- In addition to Michael Moore's own Materia Medica (manuals) you'll find olde Eclectic tomes (other manuals, Felter, Ellingwood, Fyfe, Culbreth ...) on his site
- All the herb-related bits of King's American Dispensatory (1898) (yes, it's part of this site.)
- The herbal remedies info site. Very charming.
- A Himalayan herb site
- A Modern Herbal (1931)
- The Raintree Tropical Plant Database includes information on about 100 plants
- The TCM Herbal Database from The Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute has info on about 220 commonly used Chinese herbs
- Healthnotes, widely available on the web; try this, this, or any of the other clones. Note that the Healthnote Files are slanted towards a "scientifically correct" way of thinking, ie. pharmaceutical industry; therefore the herbal files are overcautious and more or less theoretical.
- Holisticonline has a rather comprehensive database
- Christine Haughton's files
- The herbal monographs of the Australian Naturopathic Network
- Practitioner-level phytotherapy information (if you're a practitioner you can register and gain access to the info.)
- Mary O'Connell, with information on some Southwest Medicinal Plants
- eMedicinal's herbal database - checking their Echinacea entry, they harp on freeze dried, though, which makes me wonder whose product brochures they've read.
Auf Deutsch
- Die Heilpflanzen-Suchmaschine
- Die Bad Heilbrunner Selbstmedikationsdatenbank, highly technical, with about 150 plants and some vitamins
- Die kleine Kräuterhexe, eine recht sympatische Seite die Du auch herunterladen kannst
- Das Kräuterlexikon bei Heilkräuter.de
- Materialien zum Thema Phytotherapie
Other languages (fi - sv)
Herbal medicine - Good Materia Medicas - Botany - Culinary herbs - Other fun things
Botanical things
- Need to find a new scientific name from an old book, or see which plants are actually identical nowadays?
- The GRIN taxonomy database is very good indeed, even if it does have a few interesting gaps here and there
- If you're looking for plants found wild somewhere in the US, your best bet is the USDA Plants database - they're lumpers (yay!), but a tad too keen on adding the newest botanical binominals ASAP. Europeans are generally splitters (boo hiss!) but usually we wait a bit before introducing shiny new latin names, which often means we don't have to introduce them at all -- because botanists just can't make up their minds.
- Algaebase is an excellent site for algae
- For the Fabaceae, the best database is Ildis
- Then there's tropicos - do pay attention to the "Author" part of the botanical name. While it does give a lot of synonyms it's not always clear on which of the results given is the currently correct botanical binominal. They also have way too many circular references (plant a? Nah, that's b these days. Nah, that's c these days. Nah, that's a these days. Argh, says I.)
- The IPNI database can be helpful - current botanical binominals are given in comments only, which of course means that a lot of the entries don't have them.
- The best Swedish botanical database is of course Den Virtuella Floran; if you're even close to being able to understand Swedish go have a look
- The Index Fungorum also covers lichens - yay! Still no data on Variolaria dealbata, though.
- Plantcol, a Belgian site with data on plants in various botanical gardens in Belgium, and photos. Nice!
- Scott's botanical links
- Michel Porcher's plant name sorting pages, handy to keep track of what citrus really is related in what way to another citrus (and similar things)
- The Northern Ontario plant database
- A Maltese plant site, very extensive
- Quentin Groom's UK site "Find Wild Flowers" - give the Euphrasia ID a twirl, it's lots of fun.
- Flora Celtica, folkloric use of a lot of plants
- Some nice pictures by botanical family
Herbal medicine - Good Materia Medicas - Botany - Culinary herbs - Other fun things
Culinary and gardening sites, mostly
- Gernot Katzer's spice pages - an extensive site
- A very good site on soap-making.
Herbal medicine - Good Materia Medicas - Botany - Culinary herbs - Other fun things
Not plants at all, but still fun
- Frazz is the new Calvin and Hobbes: http://www.comics.com/comics/frazz/
- Schlock is extraordinary. It includes one of the best strip gags in any comic ever: http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20010813.html - but read it from the first strip to the current one, it's great.
- I used to spend some of my copious free time on news:rec.humor.oracle.d. Here's some gems from that ng: http://henriettesherbal.com/rhod/main.html
- One of the greatest rants of all time (you go, Russ!): http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/writing/rant.html
- Great site for website design: Sarah's Kinda Helpful Web Site
Lovely Linux links
- Geek news:
- http://slashdot.org/ - news for nerds.
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/ - The Register: "biting the hand that feeds IT".
- SuSE and KDE:
- SuSE
- newsgroup: news:alt.os.linux.suse - very helpful.
- KDE - one of the desktop environments of linux distros - ooh, shiny! I love the file preview in the file manager.
- MySQL and PHP:
- The MySQL manual - the online version of the manual is much better than the one included in your linux distribution, because it includes reader comments - examples, caveats, etc. Very helpful.
- The PHP manual - this manual, too, includes reader comments in the online version. Extremely good.