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Medicinal herbFAQ - contents page

All you ever wanted to know - and ask on a newsgroup - more often than once a month - about medicinal herbs. A FAQ for alt.folklore.herbs and the medicinal herblist.
Version 1.33, last updated 21Aug98.

Email me any comments: HeK@hetta.pp.fi

Please do read entry 2.1.19, Golden Seal appeal. Thanks.

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Contents

Part 1:

  • 1 Introduction
    • 1.1 Contributors
    • 1.2 Wishlist
  • 2 Frequently asked questions and other useful stuff
    • 2.1 Single herbs
      • 2.1.1 Valeriana
        • 2.1.1.1 Valeriana is not derived from Valium
      • 2.1.2 Yohimbe
        • 2.1.2.1 Yohimbe is a MAO inhibitor, yohimbine isn't
      • 2.1.3 Absinthe FAQ pointer
      • 2.1.4 St. John's Wort (Hypericum) and photosensitivity
        • 2.1.4.1 St. John's Wort (Hypericum) and MAO inhibition
        • 2.1.4.2 About standardized hypericin content in St. John's Wort (Hypericum)

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Part 2:

  • 2 Frequently asked questions and other useful stuff, cont'd
    • 2.1 Single herbs, cont'd
      • 2.1.5 Ginseng - ***under construction***
      • 2.1.6 Stevia Leaf - Too Good To Be Legal?
        • 2.1.6.1 Changed legal status of Stevia Leaf
      • 2.1.7 Poison Ivy / Oak / Sumac
      • 2.1.8 Echinacea - uses
        • 2.1.8.1 Echinacea - poaching and extinction
      • 2.1.9 Feverfew and migraine

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