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"I hope that's Valerian I smell!"
It's the Columbines and Wizardry Herbs Catalog
filled with a variety of ethically wildcrafted herbal products. New items including more smoking herbs and two new tinctures.
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A list of courses and classes currently offered, including information on the 1998 Herbal Apprenticeship Program. We are currently accepting interviews for 1998.
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Currently Available Classes:
We are currently accepting interviews for the 1998 Herbal Apprenticeship Program. Apply soon, as next year's program is filling up quickly!
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Introductory Herbalism for the Massage Practice: This 28 hour in-depth seminar will introduce the massage therapist or
body worker to the art of incorporating of herbs in their practice. November 30 to December 9, 1997, Escondido, California.
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Wildcrafting Links
Wildcrafting is stewardship. This means we need to take care of the land and our plant populations. We need to harvest in a way that insures the health of the stand for our children. You should be able to return to this stand year after year. It will teach you many
secrets about ecology and population dynamics. It is not a one night stand.
Herbal Hall's feature article of the month/season is Wildcrafting for Beginners.
Wildcrafting Ethics and thoughts about rare, threatened and endangered plants.
A variety of plant checklists with uses can be found on the Plant Lists from the Pacific Northwest, along with the most current Herbal Apprenticeship Information.
Andrew Pengelly's been out in the field with some students from Sydney. They've prepared a preliminary plant list from the Kayuga Field School Weekend in the Hunter Valley of Eastern Australia.
What plants are federally protected in the United States? Check the Endangered Species Homepage at the US Fish and Wildlife server for the complete federal listings.
Close to home, your own state may have locally protected plants. When traveling around and harvesting, you may not realize that the Lomatium you see only grows in a thirty mile circle around you. Better browse through the
Natural Heritage Program for the local listings.
Want to harvest some Queen Anne's Lace? Check out the differences between
Daucus carota and Poison Hemlock, Conium maculatum, in a warning about
harvesting umbelliferaes.
A Wild Winter: Some thoughts about the floods of the winter of 1995/96, and its impact on low elevation creeks.
Another Wild Winter: More thoughts about flooding, from the floods of the winter of 1996/97, and its impact on seed dispersal.
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Herbal Information
No, it isn't Osha, but a close relative with similar uses, and it's discussed in detail on the Ligusticum grayi Page. This page has been reformatted, all the links fixed, and new picture links added. This was the article of the month for over a year on Herbal Hall, and is still one of my favorite pages. Don't miss the fun, check it out!
Research results from field studies on a rare Pacific Northwest Mugwort, Artemisia ludoviciana ssp. estesii, that raises both evolutionary and conservation issues. This newly updated article was published in the 1996 issue of the Kalmiopsis, the Journal of the Native Plant Society of Oregon. It answers many of the questions raised in the previous version of this article.
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Fill up the pipe, put up your feet, and relax to the Herbal Smoking Mixtures Booklet, the hypertext version or the text version.
If you are concerned about Hypericum toxicity, check out the unabridged version of St. John's Wort and Phototoxicity
from the Herb List.
Read some ethnocentric class notes for Arnica mollis.
The large and informative Medicinal Herb FAQ is a collection of some of the best information from cyberspace's herbal mailing lists and newsgroups. Maintained by cyberspace's Herbal Archivist, Henriette Kress.
I thought you wanted to learn more about Mugwort, Artemisia douglasiana, or was I just dreaming? You can even compare this with Christopher Hedley's notes on Artemisia. (Link fixed)
Is the new Bio-energized Manchurian Enzymated Blue Green Algae suspended in a base of Tea Tree Essiac solution what you need this season? Or just some Violet syrup? Perhaps the post on Bioregionalism and Fad Herbs will help to enlighten you. New material as published in the 1996 Summer Solstice issue of Talking Leaves.
A Cough Syrup recipe from deep in the dusty throat of this wandering wildcrafter. Saved from obscurity in the herb list archives by none other than Henriette.
Bacterial Infections Berberis Has Known and Loved.
Concerned about the fire in your mouth? Here's a short one on herbs for toothaches.
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Can't Get You Out of my Head, originally published in Healing Currents, this article is about dissolving partnerships, otherwise known as breaking-up with your sweetie.
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If you cut your finger installing that new modem, perhaps Yarrow, Achillea millefolium, will interest you.
Botanical Information
The Flora of North America North of Mexico is online!. It's only partially completed, so you may not find what your looking for. However, if you do, you may be furnished with taxonomic keys, pictures, descriptions, and maps, all in the "new" accepted latin names. If you don't like to wait for slow booting frames, use the search page.
WWW Sites of Interest to Botanists has all the botany and herbal links. Ideal bookmark material.
A Collection of Botany Related URLs has similar material as the last link, organized by topics. Browse their ethnobotany page.
Other Quality Herbal Links
Rather than fill the page with a zillion links, I've listed a few useful ones. These will take you everywhere. Wait, this section is growing. Who knows, perhaps it will become a zillion links.
Algy's Herbal Page will connect you to medicinal, culinary, commercial, and garden herbal links. A large site of links. To frame, or not to frame? That is the question.
The American Herbalists Guild Homepage.
Michael Tierra's Planet Herbs Homepage is on the web. This site is filling with original Michael material. Keep an eye on this one!
Herbnet has a large list of herb related schools and courses, and other interesting information.
Jonathan Treasure's new page, The Herbal Bookworm, is now online with in-depth reviews of current herbal literature. Check out the top ten books of all time as seen by a poll of professional herbalists, and vote on your own favorite book.
Herbal Hall is back online! It's the one and only original Herbal Hall.
Herb Research News is another herbal link worth looking at.
Henriette Kress's Home Page Herbal fun from the keeper of the medicinal and culinary FAQ's.
Paul Bergner's Medical Herbalism Homepage contains a free sample issue of the USA's own journal for clinical herbalism, and other goodies including links to online journals and databases.
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SOARING BEAR maintains an excellent list with many herbal, ethnobotanical, and chemical links.
Robyn Klein finally has her information on the web. Check out Robyn's Recommended Reading, which includes information on the Sweetgrass School of Herbalism.
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SW School of Botanical Medicine/Michael Moore Home Page contains current class information, a library of medicinal herb downloads, and a mega-archive of medicinal plant pictures. This is one of the best herbal sites on the internet.
Sunsite Archives an extensive alternative medicine library.
Search the Plant Databases
Don't be embarrassed by asking easily answered stupid questions on your herbal forum. Just search the databases, and impress friends at parties with your herbal knowledge.
American Indian Ethnobotany Database
Biological Databases at NAL
Rhizome? Corm? Look in the Botanical Glossaries from the Australia National Botanic Gardens.
Telnet to Carl Uncover to search periodicals for that obscure footnote, or try out their new web interface.
Search the Flora of North America North of Mexico. It's only partially completed, so you may not find what your looking for. However, if you do, you may be furnished with taxonomic keys, pictures, descriptions, and maps, all in the "new" accepted latin names.
Can't figure out that herbal, medical, or anatomical term? Search Michael Moore's Medical/Herbal Glossary from his home page, or search an older hypertext version from Herbal Hall.
Free medline access on the net from Healthlink!
Grieve's Modern Herbal is now available on the net. You can even search these volumes for a specific herb or action.
Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
Michael Moore's Teaching Manuals: Before you write me asking where to find information on Oplopanax or some other herb on the net, try here first. Much of this information is for the learned who understand multisyllabic medical words ending in -itis.
So YOU'RE an Herbalist?
Here in the United States of America, the legalities of practicing herbalism is a poorly defined grey area. Protect yourself, or at least entertain yourself, with the following links.
Herbalists Charter of Henry the VIII. Under the General Laws of the Colonies taken over by the U.S.A., these
rights are still in force in the original thirteen states, and have never
been repealed.
Informed Consent/Full Disclosure from the American Herbalists Guild.
Checklist for protecting your rights as an herbalist from the Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute.
Defending your rights as an herbalist from the Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute.
Mailing Lists and Newsgroups
Why re-invent the wheel to list the herbal newsgroups when Henriette has done it so well already? Check these out from the Medicinal Herb FAQ:
Mailing Lists
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Newsgroups
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This site is permanently under construction. If you have any comments,
suggestions, and especially if you notice spelling errors or broken links write to me, Howie Brounstein. Last update November 13, 1997.
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