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Recommended Links to the World of Herbs
Ethnobotany
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Aboriginal Plant Use in South-Eastern Australia - http://www.anbg.gov.au/aborig.s.e.aust/index.html
This web-site contains detailed notes and a bibliography on plants
used by Aboriginal peoples of south-eastern Australia.
American Indian Ethnobotany -
http://waffle.nal.usda.gov/agdb/amindeth.html
Contains over 47,000 entries representing the medicinal uses of 3.895
species from 760 genera and 142 families by 123 different native American
groups. Data records include: Plant taxanomic and common names; Native
groups that use(d) the plant; type of use; and bibliographic citation.
AyuHerbal Catalog of Indian Medicinal Plants - http://www.ayuherbal.com/medplantcatalogue.htm#
CIEER - Center for International Ethnomedicinal Education and Research
- http://www.cieer.org/
CIEER is an 501 c(3) nonprofit educational and research organization
developed to establish a focal point for the exchange of ethnomedicinal
knowledge and to establish an international network of ethnobotanical
researchers. CIEER's goals are to educate the public concerning the
use of plants for healing by traditional cultures and to promote the
safe and effective use of medicinal plants.
CISCOM-The Centralised Information Service For Complementary Medicine
- http://www.rccm.co.uk/ciscom/
The CISCOM database currently has nearly 70,000 citations and abstracts
covering all the major complementary therapies.
ClinicalTrials.gov - http://clinicaltrials.gov/
The U.S. National Institutes of Health, through its National Library
of Medicine, has developed ClinicalTrials.gov to provide patients, family
members and members of the public current information about clinical
research studies.
CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects)
- http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/
CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) is
a biomedical database system containing information on research projects
and programs supported by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Most of the research falls within the broad category of extramural projects,
grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements conducted primarily by
universities, hospitals, and other research institutions; and funded
by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other government agencies.
A relatively small number of research grants are funded by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and
the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR). CRISP also contains
information on the intramural programs of the NIH and the FDA.
The Datadiwan - The Ultimate Database for Extraordinary Knowledge
in Holistic Medicine and Frontier Sciences - http://www.datadiwan.de/index_e.htm
Dictionary of Chinese Herbs - http://alternativehealing.org/chinese_herbs_dictionary.htm
From the Complementary and Alternative Healing University
Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases - http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/
Elsevier Science - http://bgbm3.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/IOPI/GPC/
Mission: To serve the advancement of science, technology and medicine
by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of communication among
researchers and professionals world-wide and by providing solutions
to their information needs.
EthnobotDB - http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/ethnobot.html
Worldwide plant uses
Ethnobotanical Leaflets - http://www.siu.edu/~ebl/
A web-based journal devoted to medicinal, economic and ethnobotany,
with articles and links to many other resources.
Ethnobotany of the Peruvian Amazon - an introduction to medicinal
and useful plants in the Amazonian region of Perú - http://www.biopark.org/Plants-Amazon.html
History of Traditional Indian Medicine (links page) - http://www.mic.ki.se/India.html
Indonesian Folk Medicine - http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/hyb_r_2.htm
Created by Dr. James Duke, Indonesian Folk Medicine is an ethnobotanical
index which "embraces both the medicinal plants of the forests
and the plants of the clearings..." and is part of the plant genome
databases of the National Genetic Resource Programs of the USDA. Developed
to help target renewable products, particularly medicinal plants which
would add to the known value of Indonesia's rain forests, the index
contains at least 100,000 entries, linking medical and folkloric properties.
Journal of Ethnopharmacology - http://www.elsevier.com/cdweb/journals/03788741/viewer.htt?viewtype=journal&rangeselected=5
Online abstracts of articles.
Laboratory of Ethnobotany - http://www.umma.lsa.umich.edu/Ethnobotany/Ethnobotany.html
The Ethnobotany laboratory houses extensive collections of domesticated
plants from around the world as well as specimens recovered from archaeological
sites. The laboratory produces analysis reports for submitted specimens.
Medicinal Uses of Native Plants of South Florida - http://fig.cox.miami.edu/~scofield/sofl_plants/med_index.html
General cultural patterns in traditional medicine.
Actions of medicinal plants.
A few conditions requiring treatment with traditional medicine.
A few preparations used when readying medicinal plants for use in treatment.
References on medicinal plants.
Native American Ethnobotany Database, University of Michigan-Dearborn
- http://www.umd.umich.edu/cgi-bin/herb
Foods, Drugs, Dyes, and Fibers of Native North American Peoples.
Native American Herbal - Traditional Herbal & Plant Knowledge,
Identifications -
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/food/plants.html
Herbs used mostly by Anishinaabeg people.
Plants of the Machiguenga -
http://www.montana.com/manu/
An ethnobotanical study of Eastern Peru.
Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute TCM Herbal Database - http://www.rmhiherbal.org/ai/pharintro.html
Free access (by password) to sample course materials and a database
of over 220 herbs of the Chinese (TCM) materia medica.
Sacred Earth - An Educational Forum and Networking Resource for
Ethnobotany and Ecotravel - http://www.sacredearth.com/
Sacred Earth is a privately funded organization dedicated to cross-cultural
communication and sharing of traditional plant knowledge & cosmologies.
Ethnobotanists, Ecologists, Botanists, Conservationists, Eco-psychologists,
Herbalists, Mythologists, Cosmologist, Philosophers and all other people
of any age, race, and spiritual background who share a passion for nature
and a concern for the well-being of Mother Earth are invited to participate
in this forum of cross-cultural exchange.
The Society of Ethnobiology - http://www.ethnobiology.org/
The Society of Ethnobiology is a nonprofit professional organization
dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the relationships of plants
and animals with human cultures worldwide.
The Society for Ethnomedicine (AGEM) - http://www.ag-ethnomedizin.de/e_index.html
The Society is a non-profit making organisation that supports, through
subscriptions, membership fees and donations, the publication of the
journal curare. The Society also undertakes public dissemination
through quarterly circulars, publications, conferences, internet-work
and works together with international societies, universities, work
groups and other organizations.
AGEM particulary focuses on medical concepts and practices of specific
ethnic groups, and from the medical knowledge of lay people to the experience
of traditional healers and doctors of the present and the past.
Tico Ethnobotanical Dictionary -
http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/dictionary/tico/index.html
TradiMed - http://www.tradimed.com/index.asp
Traditional Chinese Medicines Database
Yuthog Foundation of Tibetan Medicine - http://www.yuthog.org/
Yuthog Foundation of Tibetan Medicine is a relatively new centre for
training and education of young Ladakhi people in Tibetan medicine.
The objective is the preservation and development of traditional Tibetan
medicine and the exchange of experiences to solve problems with respect
to use and identification of medicinal plants.
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