6.3.1 For enthusiasts (emphasis on color pictures)
- The Herb Companion
The Herb Companion, KS, USA. http://www.herbcompanion.com
Bimonthly, USD 20/year or USD 39/2 years (foreign USD 30/year or USD 59/2 years).
Mainly herb gardening and culinary uses of herbs. - HerbalGram (Journal of the American Botanical Council and the Herb Research Foundation)
American Botanical Council, TX, USA http://abc.herbalgram.org/site/PageServer
Quarterly, USD 50/yr. (Foreign USD 70/yr).
Technical and scientific, ethnobotany, latest medical research.
Do check Jonathan Treasure's in-depth reviews of Tyler's books and the Comm. E. monographs before you let this journal talk you into buying them: http://www.herbological.com/ - Herbs for Health.
Herbs for Health, KS, USA. http://www.herbsforhealth.com
Bimonthly, USD 20/year or USD 39/2 years (foreign USD 30/year or USD 59/2 years). - The American Herb Association Quarterly Newsletter
American Herb Association, CA, USA. http://www.ahaherb.com
Subscriptions: USD 35/supporting, USD 20/regular membership per year. - The United Plant Savers newsletter
United Plant Savers, VT, USA. http://unitedplantsavers.org
USD 35 - USD 100 sliding scale. - The Herb Quarterly
San Anselmo, CA, USA. http://www.herbquarterly.com/
Quarterly, ISSN 0163-9900, USD 19.95/year (internet price). (Canada and Mexico add USD 5, other foreign add USD 7).
6.3.2 For professional herbalists (emphasis on case studies)
These lead the field:
- Medical Herbalism
Bergner Communications, Boulder, CO, USA. http://www.medherb.com - back issues available as single issues, as a bound volume, by online subscription, or on CD.
Subscription by year; 4 issues per; USD 36 (US), 39 (Canada), 45 (overseas). Credit cards accepted. - Journal of the American Herbalists Guild
http://www.americanherbalistsguild.com/
Subscription by year; 2 issues per; USD 45 (US), 60 (foreign). - The Modern Phytotherapist.
MediHerb Pty Ltd., Qld., Australia. http://www.mediherb.com.au/
Subscription by year; 2-3 issues per; AUD 33 (straya), 40 (overseas). - Australian Journal of Medical Herbalism
National Herbalists Association of Australia (NHAA), NSW, Australia. http://www.nhaa.org.au
Subscription by year; 4 issues per; AUD 220 (full members (practitioners)) + AUD 30 joining fee; AUD 55 (students) + AUD 10 joining fee; AUD 110.50 (supporting members) + AUD 20 joining fee. Overseas + AUD 15 (rates per 0700) - The British Journal of Phytotherapy. http://www.phytotherapists.org/journal.php.
This one I don't know:
- The Canadian Journal of Herbalism
Ontario Herbalists Association, Ontario, Canada. http://www.herbalists.on.ca/journal/
Subscription CAD 40.00; I don't know how many issues a year or a volume.
Auf Deutsch:
- Zeitschrift der Phytotherapie
Stuttgart, Germany. The publisher's page is here: http://www.medizinverlage.de/ fz/0722348x/index.html
Not really worth it; unless you're interested in phytotherapy as opposed to herbal therapy, ie. scientific studies as opposed to hands-on experience. And the website is absolutely awful. Bleh. Blinking text, blue background, colorful links all over the place ... shudder.
6 issues per year, EUR 62 + Versandkosten.
These are secondary in importance to the practitioner:
- The Protocol Journal of Botanical Medicine - this journal is no more. Do buy used journals, if you can find them.
- The Eclectic Medical Journals
P.O. Box 936, Sandy, OR 97055 USA.
Subscriptions: USD 84/yr for 6 issues.
Comment stolen from an article by Jonathan Treasure: '... the articles in The Eclectic Medical Journals, while giving a useful insight into the grass-roots of the Eclectic movement, hardly justify their annual cost of USD 84 subscription to the average practitioner.'
6.3.3 For universities (emphasis on scientific studies)
- Planta Medica http://www.thieme.de/fz/plantamedica/index.html
- Fitoterapia http://www.indena.com/pages/fitoterapia.php
- Economic Botany http://www.econbot.org/home.html
And any other journals which consistently pop up when you do a medline or napralert search (see next section). They should be available at your local university. Subscription rates for these journals run into hundreds, if not thousands of dollars a year, so they are rather out of reach for people, institutions and companies without a sizeable literature budget.