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4 Good Printed Sources

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Additions, opinions and missing details are welcome: drop me a note.

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4.1 Good Books on Herbs and Herbal Medicine

Please also check Jonno's Herbal Bookworm page:
http://www.teleport.com/~jonno/ and the Herbal Hall book page: (sorry,
off-line until further).
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I've now updated the list. There are so many good herbals ... any I've left
out, except for those mentioned on Jonno's list of stinkers?

First things first:

   * Michael Moore: Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West.
     1993, Red Crane Books, 826 Camino de Monte Rey, Santa Fe,
     New Mexico 87501, USA.
     ISBN 1-878610-31-7 (paperbound); listprice USD 19.95.
   * Michael Moore: Medicinal Plants of the Desert and Canyon West.
     1989, The Museum of New Mexico Press, P.O.Box 2087, Santa Fe, New
     Mexico 87503, USA. They do not accept VISA.
     ISBN 0-89013-182-1 (paperback); listprice USD 11.95.
   * Michael Moore: Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West.
     1979, The Museum of New Mexico Press (address as above).
     ISBN 0-89013-104-X (paperback); listprice USD 11.95.

     Michael Moore's books on herbal medicine are the best I've seen to
     date, and they're fun to read, too. Go get his on-line books from his
     homepage (or by ftp from sunSITE), too; see 6.1 and 7.1 for details.
     And, if you ever decide to do a book on medicinal uses of your local
     flora, go see how it is done in his book 'Los Remedios - Traditional
     Herbal Remedies of the Southwest'. It's the only work in this genre
     (that I've seen) that lists all traditional uses, and includes a
     paragraph labelled 'usefulness' for these traditional uses.

Then, the rest (these are in alphabetical order, by author):

   * Lesley Bremness: The Complete Book of Herbs - a practical guide to
     growing and using herbs.
     1988, Viking Studio Books, Penguin Books Ltd., 27 Wrights Lane, London
     W8 5TZ, England.
     ISBN 0-670-81894-1.
     Basic book for the beginner; nice pictures. Also cultivation.
   * James A. Duke: CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs.
     1985, CRC Press, Boca-Raton, FL.
     I don't have it, but have heard good things about it. Expensive, like
     all CRC books.
   * Maude Grieve: A Modern Herbal, in two volumes. (You need them both.)
     1931, reprinted in 1971, Dover Publications, Inc., 180 Varick Street,
     New York, N.Y. 10014, USA.
     ISBN 0-486-22798-7 (I), 0-486-22799-5 (II), listprice USD 9.95 each.
     A good all-round book as a reference; it has so much information on so
     many plants that it's not really outdated yet. 866 pages + index...
     It's on the WWW too, scanned and OCR'd in full by Ed Greenwood:
     http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/mgmh.html
   * Steven Foster + James A. Duke: A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants,
     Eastern/Central North America (Peterson Field Guide Series)
     1990, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.
     ISBN 0-395-35309-2 (hardcover); listprice USD 24.95.
     ISBN 0-395-46722-5 (paperback); listprice USD 16.95.
   * Steven Foster + Yue Chongxi: Herbal Emissaries - bringing Chinese
     Herbs to the West.
     1992, Healing Arts Press, One Park Street, Rochester, Vermont 05767.
     ISBN 0-89281-349-0. USD 16.95.
     Very thorough description of Chinese plants (with growing
     instructions) for us Westerners. Good Stuff. (I LIKE books with more
     than 2 pages per plant. These guys use about 6 pages per...)
   * Rosemary Gladstar: Herbal Healing for Women - simple home remedies for
     women of all ages.
     1993, Fireside Books, Simon & Schuster, New York
     ISBN 0-671-76767-4 (softcover); list price USD 12.00
     A good book on herbs and women's health.
   * James Green: The Male Herbal: health care for men and boys
     1991, Crossing Press, Freedom, CA.
     ISBN 0-895-94459-6 (hard cover).
     The only book about herbs for men that I've seen so far.
   * James Green: The Herbal Medicine Maker's Handbook
     1990, Simplers Botanical Co., Box 39, Forestville, CA 95436
     listprice (paperback) USD 5.00.
     This I don't have, but one reputable source said it's a good one.
   * Christopher Hedley and Non Shaw: Herbal Remedies. A beginner's guide
     to making effective remedies in the kitchen.
     1996, Parragon Book Service Ltd., Unit 13-17, Avongridge Trading
     Estate, Atlantic Road, Avonmouth, Bristol BS11 9QD, England.
     ISBN 0-7525-0093-7. GBP 7 or so.
     This one will go down thru the ages - it has roots. All recipes are
     tried and work, it's down to earth and well-written, and you'll get to
     know (and probably expand) your spice rack in ways you didn't expect
     when you bought your spices ;).

   * Christopher Hobbs: booklets on various topics (Valerian, Echinacea,
     Milk Thistle, Usnea, Medicinal Mushrooms, Natural Liver Therapy,
     Vitex, Immune Therapy).
     Botanica Press, Box 742, Capitola, CA 95010. (Most are USD 5-10).
     Accurate and balanced articles. Good buy!
     This search engine will yield articles by Hobbs, among
     others: http://www.healthy.net/Architext/AT-Completequery.html
   * David Hoffmann: The New Holistic Herbal
     1990 (3rd edition), Element Books Ltd, Longmead, Shaftesbury,
     Dorset, England.
     ISBN 1-85230-193-7 (softcover)
     From [e-mail] (HealingPgs):
     New edition with more color pictures being released under the title
     "Complete Illustrated Holistic Herbal"; ISBN 1-85230-758-7; Release
     date: May '96
   * David Hoffmann: An Elders' Herbal - natural techniques for promoting
     health and vitality
     1993, Healing Arts Press, Vermont.
     ISBN 0-89281-396-2 (softcover); list price USD 14.95.
     From [e-mail] (HealingPgs):
     Emphasis on the treatment of the elderly by herbal medicine. Unique.
   * David Hoffmann: The Herbal Handbook: A user's guide to medical
     herbalism.
     1988, Healing Arts Press. USD 10.95.
     Quite thorough for a beginner's herbal.
     This search engine will yield articles by Hoffmann, among others:
     http://www.healthy.net/Architext/AT-Completequery.html
     He's also made a CD-ROM, see below.
   * Marie-Louise Kreuter: Natural Herb Gardening
     Macmillan Publishing Company, 866 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022.
     This is a translation from German. (I know because she has other books
     in German.)
   * Claire Loewenfeld: Herb Gardening
     Faber and Faber Limited, 3 Queen Square, London, WCIN 3AU
   * John Lust: The Herb Book.
     1974, Bantam Books, 1540 Broadway, New York, NY 10036.
     ISBN 0-553-26770-1. Listprice USD 6.99.
     LOTS of tables you can look up things in.
   * Simon Y. Mills: Out of the Earth: The Essential Book of Herbalism.
     1992, Viking Press.
     From [e-mail] (HealingPgs):
     The Penguin softcover was released under the title "The Essential Book
     of Herbal Medicine". This is still in print, $15.00.

     ISBN 014-019309X.
   * Anne McIntyre: The Complete Women's Herbal - a manual of healing herbs
     and nutrition for personal well-being and family care.
     1994. Gaia Books Limited, London. American edition 1995 (this is the
     one I have).
     ISBN 0-8050-3537-0. USD 25.00.
     A very good book; it covers everything, and does it well.
   * Debra Nuzzi: Pocket Herbal Reference Guide
     1992, The Crossing Press.
     ISBN 0-89594-568-1. USD 5.95
     It is pocket size, with lots of tables you can look up.
   * Penelope Ody: The Complete Medicinal Herbal.
     Dorling Kindersley, USD 29.95.
     Has most everything the beginner needs and then some.
   * Jeanne Rose: Jeanne Rose's Modern Herbal.
     USD 9.95
   * Michael Tierra: Planetary Herbology: an integration of Western herbs
     into the traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic systems.
     Lotus Press, P. O. Box 6265, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502-6265, USA.
     ISBN 0-941524-27-2. Listprice USD 17.95
     A gem.
   * Michael Tierra: The Way of Herbs.
     1990, Pocket Books, New York.
     ISBN 0-671-72403-7 (paperback). Listprice USD 6.50.
     What would this one be in Japanese? Herb-do? (grin) Nice book.
     You'll find Michael Tierra's website at: http://www.planetherbs.com/ -
     lots of goodies, so go have a look.
   * Maria Vanderham, Hrsg.: die HeilkrΣuter-Kalender -Serie.
     Yearly calendars with quality herbal articles, in German.
     Θditions trΘves, Postfach 1550, D-54205 Trier, Germany.
     ISBN (1997): 3-88081-383-3. Preis 12,80 DEM.
     Ich habe diese Serie seit 1982; sie liefert regelmΣssig
     QualitΣts-Artikel ⁿber Heilpflanzen.
   * Susun S. Weed: the Wise Woman Herbal series (Healing Wise, Menopause,
     Childbearing Year, and maybe more)
     Ash Tree Publishing, PO Box 64, Woodstock, NY 12498, USA.
     Healing Wise: 1989, ISBN 0-9614620-2-7.
     Childbearing Year: 1986, Ash Tree Publishing.
     Menopausal Years: 1992, Ash Tree Publishing.
     Interesting approach to herbal healing, but good stuff, it wouldn't be
     listed here otherwise.
   * Rudolf Fritz Weiss, MD: Herbal Medicine.
     1988. Listprice USD 55.
     Translation of the 6th edition of Lehrbuch der Phytotherapie.
     Beaconsfield Publishers LTD, Beaconsfield, England.
     This book is organized by system and subdivided by diseases and is
     written from an MD's perspective. Contains a lot of useful
     information. ([e-mail])
     Way too expensive, unless you are a MD and need the herbs in the
     format presented.
   * Terry Willard: the textbooks for the Wild Rose College of Natural
     Healing (nowadays the Coastal Mountain College of Healing Arts?).
     #400, 1228 Kensington Road, NW Calgary, Alberta T2N4P9, Canada
     He's also working on a CD-ROM.
     I have heard nothing but praise for these books; now perhaps I should
     try to get them, too?

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East-Asian traditional healing (ETH) (also called TCM, Traditional Chinese
Medicine):

   * Dan Bensky, Andrew Amble, Ted Kaptchuk: Chinese Herbal Medicine
     Materia Medica, 2nd. edition.
     Eastland Press, Inc., Seattle, Washington, 1993.
     The standard ETH Materia Medica.
   * Dan Bensky, Andall Barolet: Chinese Herbal Medicine Formulas &
     Strategies, 1st. edition.
     Eastland Press, Inc., Seattle, Washington, 1990.
     The companion Formulary.

     >starting a course of acupuncture and Chinese herbology -- does anyone
     know any good books on this subject?

     From [e-mail] (HealingPgs):
     Read Ted Kaptchuk's The Web That Has No Weaver. Most of the Seattle
     acupuncture schools use this as a first year text and it's a lovely,
     intelligent explanation of the basics of TCM. The herb book that is
     most popular with our local acupuncturists is Dagmar Ehling's Chinese
     Herbalist Handbook. It's laid out in a very user-friendly fashion. The
     big herbal reference works for most Western trained acupuncturists are
     the Eastland Press books by Dan Bensky -- they are probably available
     through your school bookstore.

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4.2 Good Books for further studies

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So now you feel you've read enough books, but you're still glassy-eyed from
reading the 'constituents' -part of the books (or the various ailment
descriptions) - time to go shopping for some (literally) (pun intended)
heavier stuff:

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   * Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd: King's American Dispensatory, in
     two volumes.
     1898, 18th edition, 3rd revision. Reprinted 1993, Eclectic Institute,
     14385 SE Lusted Rd., Sandy, OR 97055. 1-800-332-4372.
     No ISBN number. Listprice USD 225.
     This one lists everything they knew about plants (and chemicals used
     in medicine) back then, and does it exhaustively. This one is REALLY
     good.
   * Norman Grainger Bisset (Ed.): Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals, A
     Handbook for Practice on a Scientific Basis.
     Translation of Max Wichtl (Ed.): Teedrogen, below.
     1994, CRC Press.
     This book has 181 monographs on European herbs with descriptions and
     photographs of the herbs, with lists of constituents, indications,
     side-effects, delivery system, method for authenticating the herb
     (usually a TLC), and the quantitative standards of the European
     pharmacaopeias where it is listed as official. Although it does not
     explain mode of action, this is a technical, and scientific book of
     excellent quality and a must for serious herbal students. It is also
     expensive as are all CRC books. ([e-mail])
   * Max Wichtl (Hrsg.): Teedrogen, Ein Handbuch fuer die Praxis auf
     wissenschaftlicher Grundlage. 2., erweiterte, ueberarbeitete Aufl.
     1989, Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Birkenwaldstr. 44,
     D-7000 Stuttgart 1, Germany.
     ISBN 3-8047-1009-3, listprice DEM 178.
     It's expensive in the original, too, but still a good reference - for
     pharmacognosists. Herbalists? Naaa...
   * Trease + Evans: Pharmacognosy, 13th edition.
     1989, Bailliere Tindall, London.
     There is a great deal of chemistry involved in this book but again it
     is an excellent reference if this is the type of information you want.
     ([e-mail])
   * Andrew Pengelly: The constituents of medicinal plants - an
     introduction to the chemistry & therapeutics of herbal medicine.
     1996, Sunflower herbals, "Athlone", Dorset Rd., Muswellbrook NSW 2333,
     Australia.
     ISBN 0-646-28498-3. Listprice AUD 25.00.
     As far as I know this is the first book on pharmacognosy by a
     practicing herbalist since the eclectics went away . It covers the
     main points of plant chemistry, and does it nicely.

Then you need:

   * A basic chemistry textbook.
   * A good biochemistry textbook. I have Stryer, 3.ed., so now even I
     understand something about enzymes.
   * A good anatomy/physiology textbook (good to put you to sleep, too).
   * The Anatomy Coloring Book
   * The Physiology Coloring Book
   * The latest Merck Manual, which lists main illnesses plaguing mankind -
     not for us hypochondriacs. You might need a Medicinese - English
     dictionary to understand it. The Merck Manual (16th edition) is now on
     the net:  http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/html/sectoc.htm
   * The latest Merck Index, which lists medicines by their constituents;
     meaning you can check which extracted part of which plant is used in
     which over-the-counter medicine for what illness.

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4.3 Good Periodicals

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   * The European Journal of Herbal Medicine.
     National Institute of Medical Herbalists (NIMH), 56 Longbrook Street,
     Exeter, Devon, EX4 6AH, UK, Europe.
     Phone + 01392 426022, fax + 01392 498963.
     Good Stuff on Herbal Medicine.
     3 issues per year, GBP 17.50/year (UK), 20.00/year (EC), 25.50/year
     (overseas). They don't take Visa, but check or money-order is OK.
   * The Modern Phytotherapist.
     MediHerb Pty Ltd., PO Box 713, Warwick, Qld. 4370, Australia.
     Excellent articles for the clinical herbalist. The webpage is at
     http://www.mediherb.com/.
     Two to three issues /year, ISSN 1322-2775, $40/yr or free of charge to
     customers of MediHerb.
     MediHerb has two other excellent publications for practitioners: the
     MediHerb Monitor (quarterly) and the MediHerb Professional Newsletter.
   * Medical Herbalism
     Bergner Communications, P.O.Box 20512, Boulder, CO 80308 Phone
     (303)-541-9552.
     Excellent articles for the clinical herbalist. The webpage is
     at: http://www.concentric.net/~bergner/MHHOME.HTM.
     Quarterly, USD 36/yr (Canada USD 39/yr, Foreign USD 45/yr). No credit
     cards.
   * The Protocol Journal of Botanical Medicine
     Herbal Research Publications, Inc., P.O. Box 721, Ayer, MA 01432.
     Phone:[phone]. fax:[phone].
     USD 96/yr professional, USD 120/yr international. On the web at
     http://www.herbalresearch.com/
     This really -is- worth the money; in-depth studies on different herbal
     approaches to more or less common western diagnoses and how these
     might be viewed in other healing systems. Also some herb monographs.
     A word of warning from Robyn Klein at [e-mail]:
     "Though this journal (a hefty 250 pages each issue) is extremely
     valuable and I use it A LOT, it is incredibly reductionistic. That is,
     it IS meant for advanced students and clinicians WHO HAVE HAD
     APPROPRIATE TRAINING IN HERBALISM. I suspect that many people who read
     this journal DO NOT have appropriate herbalist training and are
     probably taking a lot of information out of context."
   * Australian Journal of Medical Herbalism
     National Herbalists Association of Australia (NHAA), Office Manager,
     P.O. Box 61, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia. Email: [e-mail].
     Quarterly. Full members (practitioners) $140/annual plus a $30 joining
     fee; Student members $45/annual plus a $10 joining fee; Companion
     members (companies & individuals with some aspect of medical
     herbalism) $60/annual plus $20 joining fee.
   * The Herbalist
     American Herbalist Guild, Box 746555 Arvada, CO 80006, USA.
     email [e-mail], URL http://www.healthy.net/herbalists
     phone [phone] - Fax: [phone].
     Professional USD 85 /year; Associate USD 50 /year; Student USD
     35/year; Benefactor USD 500+. Please add USD 15 for foreign
     subscriptions.
   * The Herb Companion.
     Interweave Press, 201 E. 4th St., Dept. I-WC, Loveland, CO 80537.
     [phone], FAX [phone].
     http://www.healthy.net/othersites/hfh/hc.htm
     Bimonthly, ISSN 1040-581X, USD 24/year (foreign USD 31/year).
     Mainly culinary used and gardening of herbs, but lately the there's
     been a supplement on Herbs for Health (planned to continue), courtesy
     of the American Botanical Council and the Herb Research Foundation.
   * Herbs for Health.
     For a monthly dosis of information from Interweave Press subscribe to
     this one - it's 6 issues per year, alternating months with the Herb
     Companion.
     Same address as above, phone [phone],
     website: http://www.healthy.net/othersites/hfh/hfh.htm
     Bimonthly, USD 24/year (foreign USD 31/year).
   * HerbalGram (Journal of the American Botanical Council and the Herb
     Research Foundation)
     American Botanical Council, P.O. Box 201660, Austin, TX 78720, (512)
     331-8868, FAX [phone]. http://www.herbalgram.org,
     [e-mail]
     Quarterly, ISSN 0899-5648, USD 25/yr. (Foreign USD 35/yr).
     Technical and scientific, ethnobotany, latest medical research.
     One BIG but: they push Varro Tyler something fierce. Just ignore that
     and you'll find it's a nice journal. (And no, don't buy any books by
     Varro Tyler. Go get the good stuff listed in good books above
     instead.)
   * The American Herb Association Quarterly Newsletter
     P.O. Box 1673, Nevada City, CA 95959 USA.
     Subscriptions: USD 35/supporting, USD 20/regular membership per year.
   * 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.'
   * North East Herb Association Newsletter.
     P.O. Box 146, Marshfield, VT 05658-0146 USA.
     Subscriptions: USD 30-USD 100/yr depending on what you can afford.
   * United Plant Savers (dedicated to replanting endangered and threatened
     medicinal plants),
     P.O. Box 420, East Barre, VT 05649 USA.
     USD 35 - USD 100 sliding scale.
   * The Herb Quarterly
     Long Mountain Press, 223 San Anselmo Ave, Suite 7, San Anselmo,
     CA 94960. [phone], FAX [phone].
     Quarterly, ISSN 0163-9900, USD 24/yr. (Foreign USD 29/year).
   * Planta Medica
     Should be in any pharmacy/pharmacognosy university library.
   * Journal of Ethnopharmacology
     Should be in any pharmacy/pharmacognosy university library.

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Also check sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/academic/medicine/alternative-healthcare/herbal-
references/literature/herb-journals;
the Herbal Hall also has a list of periodicals at the bottom of their
publications page: (sorry, off-line until further).

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5 Other sources

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5.1 Napralert - online commercial database

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There's an introduction to NAPRALERT on this www page:
http://info.cas.org/ONLINE/DBSS/napralertss.html

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I asked Mary Lou Quinn about Napralert, and was surprised when she signed,
Managing Director, NAPRALERT... She states the difference between Medline
and Napralert as follows:

NAPRALERT is and always has been restricted to world literature regarding
natural products. Medline is not restricted. Just as one example, if you
query NAPRALERT on the key word AMYGDALIN, you will get only that
literature pertaining to the compound AMYGDALIN (otherwise known as
LAETRILE).

If you query Medline, not only will you get the above, but you will also
get lots of articles dealing with the Amygdala of the brain, anatomy,
physiology, etc. It has never been NAPRALERT'S goal to be all inclusive
regarding medical science. However, if you want the most comprehensive
database on Medicinal plants and Natural products, then NAPRALERT is the
way to go.

She also snailed me an information package. Quoting from that:

Napralert (NAtural PRoducts ALERT) is a relational database of world
literature on the chemical constituents and pharmacology of plant,
microbial and animal (primarily marine) extracts.

It's housed and maintained by the Program for Collaborative Research in the
Pharmaceutical Sciences, within the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and
Pharmacognosy, in the College of Pharmacy of the University of Illinois at
Chicago, 833 South Wood Street (M/C 877), Chicago, IL 60612, U.S.A.
Phone [phone], Fax [phone].

And here is what it'll cost you:

You can access Napralert by paying bulk rate (subscribing) or by paying per
question. Annual subscription fee for individual user with no ties to
government agencies, small or large businesses, research institutes or
libraries: USD 100, of which half gets you manuals, a user ID/password, and
limited disk storage space, and the other half gets you answers (at USD
0.75 per reference obtained).

Per question rate: USD 25 + USD 0.75 per reference obtained.
Off-line (snailmail rate): USD 25 + USD 0.75 per reference obtained.

NAPRALERT is also available on-line through STN in the US, Europe and Asia.

For more info and user ID application email [e-mail] (Mary
Lou Quinn).

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5.2 Medline - online commercial database

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You can get free Medline access from HealthGate:
http://www.healthgate.com/HealthGate/home.html
Compare it with this free Medline access
site: http://www.healthy.net/library/search/medline.htm

One has the niftier search engine, while the other will tell you right away
if it was 'in vitro' or 'in vivo'. (Why is that important? Section 3.1.8 in
part 5 of this FAQ has a nice introduction to the ins and outs of herbal
research (thanks Jonno).)

There is, of course, a caveat with depending on a (a bit skewed) database
like Medline: you won't get much outside of the 'white' world; you won't
get much outside of English language, you won't get much of the multitude
of (occasionally very useful) far-out research. And it helps to add a
keyword named 'herbs' or 'plants' when you do your search - latin names in
Medline? Naaa.... it's not MADE for herbalists, it's made for MD:s. Live
with it, but learn where to get information for hands-on information, as
well. Like the journals I mention in the 'Good Periodicals' -part of this
FAQ.

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Comment by Mark D. Gold ([e-mail]):

"I find it (Medline) a very useful tool. But it is important to realize
that there are several articles which warn about the "dangers" of herbs
(particularly in JAMA) which are little more than inaccurate hatchet jobs."

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This entry is based on the Medline FAQ by Gregory W. Froehlich, M.D.,
edited by [e-mail], corrected by [e-mail]:

> I've been hearing a lot about "med-line". What exactly is it, what is it
used for, and can you access it via internet?

I'll quote from the National Library of Medicine:

"Thousands of new books and articles in biomedicine are published every
month. How can a health professional or investigator easily locate
literature relevant to a particular area of patient care or research?

Since the early 1970's, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has made
searching the biomedical literature faster and easier by providing online
information retrieval on the MEDLARS, (MEDical Literature Analysis and
Retrieval System) family of databases. MEDLINE - NLM's premier database -
has over 7 million citations to biomedical articles and is searched more
than eighteen thousand times a day.

The cheapest way to access Medline is to attend a school or university with
a medical library. Many schools give free medline access to students. Some
university medical libraries will provide free Medline access to the
public: this varies with the school and the state in which it's located.
It's worth checking out. A few municipal public libraries also offer free
access.

It's also possible to get a direct account and search Medline from your
home. However, there is no free way to do this.

In order to make searching even easier and provide a user-friendly way to
use the MEDLARS system, NLM, in 1986, developed a software package called
Grateful Med. The simplicity and efficiency of searching with Grateful Med
have made it immensely popular -more than 50,000 copies of the software
have been sold since its introduction." (You can also access Medline
through commercial services like PaperChase, etc - more costly).

Step 1: Get a user ID/password. You can call the National Library of
Medicine (NLM) at 1-800-638-8480 or write them at NLM, MEDLARS Management
Section, Bldg. 38A, Rm 4N421, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894.

Or, you can be a cyberstud and get the application form 'userid.txt' by
anonymous ftp from nlmpubs.nlm.nih.gov in the directory /online/ medlars.

Step 2: Decide whether to use a front end (Grateful Med) or to learn how to
communicate directly with MEDLINE (HINT: pick door #1).
Download it from the same server above (check through the /grateful
directory for the files you need) or order it from NTIS (see Step 1, or get
the order form 'gmorder.txt' in the directory /online/medlars).
It's USD 30 or so the latter way.

Step 3: If you decide against using Grateful Med, you can access MEDLINE
through programs like Telnet at medlars.nlm.nih.gov. You'll need an
ID/password. You can also access MEDLINE through commercial services such
as PaperChase (Telnet to pch.bih.harvard.edu, enter pch, signup when it
asks for password)

$$$: NLM charges for access to its MEDLARS databases (NTIS writes the bill
and does the collecting though); I seem to pay about a dollar a search.
Hourly charges work out to about USD 20/hour, but some searches, where
abstracts are retrieved can be more expensive. Commercial services like
PaperChase (available on CompuServe) are also more expensive.

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5.3 Demo or shareware herbprograms

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Go get these and choose for yourself. They're all on sunsite, too:
ftp sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/academic/medicine/alternative-healthcare/herbal-medicine/programs/
and on the mirror in Japan:
ftp://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/pub/academic/medicine/alternative-healthcare/herbal-
medicine/programs/

   * "Healing Powers of Herbs" by Klaus Hoferichter, found by ftp at
     oak.oakland.edu (or mirrors) in /pub/simtelnet/health/:
     795187 08Mar95 hph2.zip
     Graphical DOS interface - mouse essential.
   * Demo of the "Herbal Browser", by Marvel C. Stalcup, found at aol and
     compuserve:
     demoherb.exe (self-extracting file, size 248436).
     DOS - interface, mouse recommended but not essential.
     Really jiffy jumping function, easy to browse.
   * "Herbage for DOS" v.1.0, by Tim Johnson, found by ftp at
     oak.oakland.edu (or mirrors) in /pub/simtelnet/health/:
     205133 21Feb95 herbage1.zip.
     DOS - interface, no mouse needed.
     Nice 'export text' -function.
   * "Illustrated Medical Herbal Encyclopedia" - demo version, found by ftp
     at oak.oakland.edu (or mirrors) in /pub/simtelnet/foods/:
     226983 03Jan95 medherb1.zip
     DOS - interface, no mouse needed.
   * "Herb Power", v. 3.0, found by ftp at oak.oakland.edu (or mirrors) in
     /pub/simtelnet/foods/:
     1154836 30Aug95 herb3.zip
     DOS
   * "Herb Power", v. 2.1, found by ftp at oak.oakland.edu (or mirrors) in
     /pub/simtelnet/foods/:
     891931 12Mar95 herbp21.zip
     DOS
   * "Dr.Weed's E-herbal guide", v.3.0, found by ftp at oak.oakland.edu (or
     mirrors) in /pub/simtelnet/foods/:
     198624 15Apr96 herbal30.zip
     DOS

I got email from Clarke Hoover <[e-mail]> about a program called
NaturBase (for Win31), found at http://www.3dtx.com. It's a nice program,
if a bit big, so go get it if you have space for it (about 9 MB unzipped
and setup, 2.8 MB zipped).

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5.4 Commercial Herbprograms

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From: Jim Bardon <[e-mail]>, 21 May 96, on Paracelsus:

There are 2 "state-of-the-art" packages to investigate which--I
believe--will prove much more depth in the long-run for you as your needs
grow:

   * GlobalHerb (Windows or Mac) - $400 from Chris Blackburn at Global
     Healthfinders. Phone # [phone] (voice) or fax [phone].
     Snail-mail: Global Health Finders, 4332 Grace Court, Rohnert Park, CA
     94928.
     Just call him and ask for literature and a free "demo disc".
     The demo disc--though not updated to show all the features of the
     newest "GlobalHerb" version, will still give you a taste of the real
     "power" in this program. No CD-ROM program I've seen can touch its
     WESTERN herb database.
     Note: Although it does contain SOME Chinese patent herbal formulas,
     they are few-and-far between. It is basically a 99% WESTERN approach
     to herbology. Very well done--search by symptom, dose, toxicity, etc.
     Get the demo disc and see for yourself.
   * Green Medicine Database" (Windows or Mac) - $500 from Redwing Books.
     Phone: [phone] (Brookline, MA). Internet: [e-mail].
     This is 100% oriented to CHINESE HERBAL FORMULAS -- has very little in
     terms of Western herbology. But it's by far the easiest to use and
     most complete Chinese Herbal Formula software I've ever found. Redwing
     will sell you a demo disk for just $10 (Windows or Mac)--well worth
     the ten dollars to see what a serious "Chinese Herbal Software"
     program can do for your practice. It's written by Daniel Weber, a
     Chinese Herbalist who lives in Australia--of all places. I've found
     this program to be easier to use than the "Formulary" Chinese herbal
     program--although you might find it the other way around. So, just for
     the record, here's how to investigate the "Formulary"...
   * "Formulary" - just visit Dr. Christopher Jayne's "CHIRON" web home
     page -- he acts as a "clearing house" selling MANY different software
     packages for holistic practitioners and serious students. A definite
     "Must Visit" web site for anyone on the Paracelsus list! Here's the
     address: http://www.olympus.net/chiron
     Or you can contact the "Formulary" producers directly: EAST WEST
     HEALING ARTS CENTER, Park Boulevard Professional Building, 4174 Park
     Blvd., 2nd Floor, Oakland, CA 94602, [phone]. (no demo disc,
     unfortunately)

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From Paul Bergner <[e-mail]> 29Jun96:

   * Christopher Hobbs' Herbal Prescriber. Info: Botanica Press, 10226
     Empire Grade, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 [phone]
     - Its not CD-ROM, and Windows only. About 36.95 USD.

It's the best software yet on medical herbalism. It's thorough, clinically
based, and inexpensive. It has therapeutic information from the Eclectic
works, and also from German texts that have not been translated into
English.

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CD-ROMs:

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   * "The Herbalist", ver.2.0, by David L. Hoffmann, CD-Rom database,
     listprice USD 54.95 (USD 45 now?), just under 50 MB, DOS, Windows31,
     Mac.
     Available from Hopkins Technology, 421 Hazel Lane, Hopkins, MN
     55343-7116. Phone [phone] or 800-397-9211.
     More info found at http://www.hoptechno.com/herbmm.htm.

It's the CD I park most often in my CD-ROM drive. It's made before
crosslinking really took off, but it has a nice index/search engine. If you
need fast access to thorough plant / ailment information this one is
excellent. As a bonus there's pronounciations of some plant Latin - the
British way ... (groan - good thing you can read the names as they speak,
and there's a replay button).
For the next version I'd like plant name pronounciations the Finnish way ;)
, more pics, more crosslinks, more physiology and how which plant affects
it, and more plants; but then, which reference work ever has all the
information you want?

   * "Traditional Chinese Medicine & Pharmacology". Hopkins Technology (as
     above). Listprice USD 54.95.
     More info found at http://www.hoptechno.com/cherbal.htm.

Well worth the price, if you do have some basic knowledge about Traditional
Chinese Medicine. I can't say how good it is if you really know your
Chinese herbs, but for my knowledge of TCM (basic) it's perfect.

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6 Teachings and stuff

If you know of any good additions please let me know.
Also check the Herbal Hall. Robbee's got a LOT of schools on: (sorry,
off-line until further).
Or go for the Herbnet listing: http://www.herbnet.com/university.html; but
do read below comments first, otherwise you might end up taking a
correspondence course at Clayton.

From [e-mail] (Eugenia Provence):
Both the American Herb Association (AHA), PO Box 1673, Nevada City, CA
95959 and the American Herbalist Guild (AHG),
http://www.healthy.net/herbalists, publish directories of schools and
classes in the US.
You will be sure to find one that appeals to your approach to herbalism,
whether that's a folk or a scientific approach.

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6.1 Apprenticeships offered lately

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Howie Brounstein, Columbines and Wizardry Herbs, Inc. ([e-mail])

You'll find his offer on his homepage:
http://www.teleport.com/~howieb/howie.html

The rest of the stuff on his homepage is readable, too. Go get a laugh at
Fad herbs, or read up on smoking herbs, or mugwort. Have fun.

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Michael Tierra, The East-West Herb Course, is at
http://www.planetherbs.com/.
I have heard nothing but praise for this course.

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Michael Moore, Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, Bisbee, Arizona.
His offer is found on his homepage:
http://chili.rt66.com/hrbmoore/HOMEPAGE.
While you're on site have a good look at all the goodies; if you are not a
beginner, get the big textfiles - Herbal Materia Medica, Herbal Repertory,
Herbal/Medical Dictionary, Herbal-Medical Contraindications, Specific
Indications, Herbal Tinctures, Herbal Energetics, and anything else that
might have been added. But _do_ download the Herbal Energetics.

These are summaries of how to prepare and use plants you already know in
ways you already know (even though you didn't necessarily know that you can
use THAT plant in THIS way before reading the stuff).

Then go get the plant folders - GOOD stuff. Funny, too, like most of the
more wordy stuff (watch me look up some strange medicinese word in his
Dictionary and start to grin over those descriptions ... whew.)

Then get the Classic Texts. And read them, too.
And then all the pictures and illustrations and whatever else you might
find - most of it is Well Worth Downloading.

I think that ftp is better than webbrowsers for downloading the LOADS of
stuff you can get from this site (get * instead of that endless
save-ok-yes-save-ok-yes-save-ok-yes ritual), so I asked would he want an
FTP mirror. Yes he would. Michael Moore updates the files on his WWW site
quite often; I download the new stuff to SunSITE once a week or at least
once every second week. Use FTP to go to sunsite.unc.edu (or
sunsite.sut.ac.jp) and cd to
/pub/academic/medicine/alternative-healthcare/herbal-medicine/SWSBM/

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7Song, NorthEast School of Botanical Medicine, found
at http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~wolfe/NSBM/NSBM97.html

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6.2 Pointers to schools

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On the herblist July 1995:

From Roy Collins, [e-mail]:

Although I've heard a lot good things about Dominion Herbal College (in
Burnaby, BC) it is basically a correspondence school. Nothing beats hands
on field work and direct interaction with a flesh and blood teacher. There
are numerous schools that offer *certificates* of graduation from herb
schools, but the herbal profession is not a licensed practiced in the U.S.
and legal repercussions can occur, as it is defined as a form of medical
practice.

This is not true in England and the European countries, however, and
licensing is commonplace. One way of getting around this is to find a good
Naturopathic School (which incorporates the use of herbs) and to become a
licensed Dr. of Naturopathy (N.D.) and set up practice. I believe many
states (including Connecticut) *allow* this alternative medical art to be
practiced. The names and addresses for both herbal schools and schools of
Naturopathy are regularly published in the advertising sections of health,
herb, and vegetarian magazines.

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You might want to check out the Australasian College of Herbal
Studies: http://www.herbed.com; based in New Zealand, this School has
branched out into Oregon. Contact: [e-mail].

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A chinese herbal school: the Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute at
http://www.ronan.net/~rmhi/
PO Box 579
Hot Springs MT 59845 USA
contact: Roger W. Wicke, Ph.D. [e-mail]
406-741-3811

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From: Rosemary, Healing Pages Bookstore ([e-mail])
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.herbs
Date: 1 Dec 1996 00:15:18

There's a new school that just opened in Albuquerque, NM, called the
National College of Phytotherapy. According to the article in Herbalgram
38, they are currently seeking accreditation for a three-year bachelor's
degree in phytotherapy. Faculty includes David Hoffman, Simon Mills, and
Michael Moore (go see Henriette's recommended book list to see the number
of great herbal books authored by these guys). Also a number of NDs and a
MD listed on staff. Looks good, and I'd love to hear from anyone attending
their classes or with more information on the school. School phone number
is given as [phone], address: 120 Aliso SE, Albuquerque NM 87108.

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From: Cathy Weigl <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 09:52:49 -0600

There are several herbal schools in Canada, depending on your focus of
study. Many of the community colleges now offer courses for the public to
take for general interest, as well.

There are two schools that have developed programs for "clinical
herbalists". Dominion Herbal College and Coastal Mountain College of
Healing Arts. Both are in Vancouver, B.C. These are 3 year programs at the
schools, no correspondence for these programs. Very intense an very
educational, but also fairly pricey.

Dominion Herbal College, 7527 Kingsway Avenue, Burnaby, B.C. V3N3C1,
Canada, [phone]

Coastal Mountain College of Healing Arts, Inc., 1745 West 4th Avenue,
Vancouver, B.C. V6J 1M2, Canada, [phone], Fax [phone]

There are also two other very good programs for herbal education:

Wild Rose College, #302 - 1220 Kensington Road, N.W. Calgary, Alberta T2N
3P5, Canada, [phone]

Emerson College of Herbology, 582 Cummer Avenue Willowdale, Ontario M2K
2M4, Canada (If this address isn't correct, contact Global Botanicals @
1-800-887-6009)

The Canadian Association of Herbal Practitioners is developing an
educational review committee to maintain certain standards for herbal
practitioners. Please contact them at [phone] if you have any
questions regarding educational requirements.

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6.2.1 ND degrees and accreditation
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From Eric Yarnell <[e-mail]>:

There are three naturopathic medical schools in the United States which are
accredited or in the process of being accredited.

The accrediting agency is the Council on Naturopathic Medical Education
(CNME).
The CNME can be contacted at: 402-391-6714, POB 11426, Eugene OR, 97440.
The CNME is accredited by the US Department of Education and is the only
recognized licensing agency for naturopathic medical schools in the US.

Bastyr University was the first accredited school in the US. The school can
be contacted at:
206-523-9585
144 NE 54th St, Seattle WA 98105
The school will be relocated to a new campus in summer 1996 (Ed. note: I
don't have the new address yet, but it's still Seattle, WA).
The school offers a certificate in Chinese herbal medicine, degrees in
acupuncture and nutrition, and other offerings besides the ND degree.

National College of Naturopathic Medicine (NCNM) is the oldest continuously
operating naturopathic medical school in the US. It can be reached at:
503-255-4860
11231 SE Market St, Portland OR 97216
It offers an ND degree.

The Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and Health Sciences is the
newest naturopathic medical school. It can be reached at:
602-990-7424
6535 E Osborn Rd, Ste 703, Scottsdale AZ 85251
The campus will be moving eventually, perhaps in 1997.
The school offers an ND degree.

States which offer licenses to people who have graduated with an ND from
one of these three schools, after passing the Naturopathic Physicians
Licensing Exam (NPLEx):
Alaska, Arizona, Connecticut, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Montana, Oregon,
Washington

There are additional recognized ND licenses in Utah and Florida. No new
licenses are being granted in those states, however.

The naturopathic medical school in Canada considered legitimate by the
above groups is the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine:
416-251-5261
60 Berl Ave, Toronto ON M8Y 3C7
British Columbia and Ontaria currently license NDs who pass licensing exams
and who have graduated from any of the four legitimate naturopathic medical
schools with an ND.

Botanical medicine is an important part of naturopathic therapy. NDs are
the only health care professionals licensed specifically to treat using
medicinal herbs, and who are explicitly trained as physicians in the use of
said agents.

Other resources:

Federation of Naturopathic Medical Licensing Boards, Inc.
602-937-4756
5002 W Glendale Ave, Ste 101, Glendale AZ 85301

American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP)
206-328-8510
2366 Eastlake Ave E, Ste 322
Seattle WA 98102

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From: [e-mail] (Tim Birdsall, ND), on 23Mar96:

Just as of last week, Utah passed a naturopathic licensure bill, which has
been signed into law by the governor, so Utah is now on the list of
licensed states.

Web pages:
American Association of Naturopathic Physicians:
http://infinity.dorsai.org/Naturopathic.Physician/

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about Clayton's 'ND' correspondence courses - which are 'accredited':

From: Paul Bergner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Clayton School

Someone recently posted that the Clayton School had obtained
"accreditation". By what body, may I ask? Is it something recognized by the
Department of Education, or is it some form of gratuitous
self-accreditation? The test of legitimacy is whether students are eligible
for government student loans.

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From: [e-mail] (Tim Birdsall, ND)

I have absolutely no quarrel with distance learning. However there is a
substantive difference between getting an MBA by home study and getting a
health care degree! How can you learn physical diagnosis without someone
standing over your shoulder saying "No, the spleen is here." or "Yes, this
person's liver feels enlarged." To the best of my knowledge, no other
health care profession has any legitimate degrees offered exclusively via
home study.

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6.3 Correspondence courses in the UK

-----
from David Powner

Details of Correspondence courses in the UK.

As far as I'm aware, there is only the one college that offers proper
qualifications via mail.

The School of Phytotherapy
Bucksteep Manor
Bodle Street Green
Nr. Hailsham BN27 4 RJ
Phone: [phone]
Fax : [phone]

This college does several courses:

Four year full time residential course. This now leads to a B.Sc. Honours
Degree in Phytotherapy, and one is legally permitted to practice as a
Medical Herbalist upon qualification, and to apply for membership of a
professional body such as NIMH (National Institute of Medical Herbalists).
Current Fees: GBP 3,900.00 per year

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Four year correspondence course. Similar to above, with a Diploma in Herbal
Medicine. Also permits the practising of Herbal Medicine, and to apply for
professional membership.
Current Fees: 160 sterling per quarter excluding books, seminars, exams
etc.

There is also a requirement to undertake 500 hours of clinical training at
about 2.50 sterling per hour - spread over the four years. Also yearly
seminars at a cost of 140 each (excluding accommodation)

Overseas students can arrange to have their clinical training with an
approved herbalist in their own country, but the 5 day seminars are only
held in the UK - one each year, and are obligatory.

This is the course that I'm aiming at taking; it involves 20/30 hrs per
week studying, but I reckon it's good value for money. Depends what you
want out of it!

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One Year correspondence course: leads to a Certificate of Herbal studies,
but does not permit the practicing of Herbal Medicine. It is necessary to
attend an examination/seminar at the end of the year if the certificate is
required.
Current Fees: 130 sterling per quarter or 475 if paid in full in advance.
The weekend seminar is 80 sterling (excluding accommodation)

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There are other courses for GPs & Osteopaths etc., and Introductory and
Preliminary courses in Biology & Chemistry. The college has recently had
degree status granted for their four year residential course, as herbal
medicine is regaining worldwide acceptance.

David Powner <[e-mail]>

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6.4 Etc.

-----

The 8th Annual Symposium of the American Herbalists Guild
Co-Sponsored by the American Botanical Council and the Lloyd Library and
Museum
Cinncinati, OH
Oct.17-20,1997
"Integrating Medicinal Herbs into America's Health Care, from Field to
Pharmacy, Forest to Patient - Facing the Challenges of the Herbal
Renaissance"
...bringing to mind the achieved height of herbal medicine today, our
parallels with the past, and our challenges for the future.

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International Conference on Medicinal Plants Conservation, Utilisation,
Trade & Cultural Traditions
Central Theme: Medicinal Plants for Survival
Dates: 16th to 20th February 1998.
Venue: National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science
Campus, Bangalore - 560 012, India.

To receive copy of detailed announcement, please write to:
Foundation for Revitaliation of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT),
No.50, 2nd Stage, MSH Layout, Anandanagar, Bangalore-560024, India
Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone] e-mail:
[e-mail]

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7 Check these sites:

-----
Among the goodies you'll find herbal mailing list and newsgroup archives,
Michael Moore's files, and some nice WWW pages.

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7.1 FTP sites with info on medicinal herbs: Sunsite Herb archives

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All files in the /pub/ directory tree on SunSITE.unc.edu are mirrored on
the server in Japan: SunSITE.sut.ac.jp.

Under
http://sunsite.unc.edu/herbmed/ or
ftp sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/academic/medicine/alternative-healthcare/herbal-medicine/ or
ftp sunSITE.sut.ac.jp
/pub/academic/medicine/alternative-healthcare/herbal-medicine/
you'll find below mentioned newsgroup and mailing list archives, LOTS of
pictures, and a mirror of all the SWSBM files (Michael Moore's stuff).
There's other herbal files, as well - just browse around. If you have
homeless herbal files drop me a note: [e-mail]

The archives for alt.folklore.herbs and the culinary and medicinal
herblists are found here:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/herbmed/archives.html or
ftp sunSITE.unc.edu
/pub/academic/medicine/alternative-healthcare/herbal-medicine/archives/ or
ftp sunSITE.sut.ac.jp
/pub/academic/medicine/alternative-healthcare/herbal-medicine/archives/

The herbfaqs are found here:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/herbmed/faqs/herbfaqs.html or
ftp sunSITE.unc.edu
/pub/academic/medicine/alternative-healthcare/herbal-medicine/faqs/ or
ftp sunSITE.sut.ac.jp
/pub/academic/medicine/alternative-healthcare/herbal-medicine/faqs/

A lot of gardening faqs (including the growing herbs for sale faq), and the
archives for rec.gardens, are found here:
ftp sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/academic/agriculture/sustainable_agriculture/gardening/ or
ftp sunsite.sut.ac.jp
/pub/academic/agriculture/sustainable_agriculture/gardening/ or
ftp sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/academic/agriculture/sustainable_agriculture/gardening-faqs/ or
ftp sunsite.sut.ac.jp
/pub/academic/agriculture/sustainable_agriculture/gardening-faqs/

And you'll find a wealth of herb information here - unfortunately not very
well organized, but if you do have the time to browse you'll find it is a
treasuretrove:
http://sunSITE.unc.edu/london/Herb_Archives.html or
ftp sunSITE.unc.edu
/pub/academic/medicine/alternative-healthcare/herbal-references/ or
ftp sunSITE.sut.ac.jp
/pub/academic/medicine/alternative-healthcare/herbal-references/

Ftpmail: send e-mail to [e-mail] for helpfile on ftpmail
usage

WAIS: also available by telnet; follow login instructions

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7.2 Interesting WWW pages

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I'll only list the most important herbal WWW pages here. You'll find the
rest of the good stuff from the links on Howie's and my pages. And you
should use a search engine to look for information on specific plants.

Michael Moore's homepage: http://chili.rt66.com/hrbmoore/HOMEPAGE
Southwest School of Botanical Medicine. Lots of goodies. All things found
here are also available by ftp or gopher on sunsite. See 6.1 above.

Howie Brounstein's homepage: http://www.teleport.com/~howieb/howie.html
Columbine and Wizardry Herbs. Lots of goodies. See 6.1 above.

Jonathan Treasure's Herbal Bookworm page: http://www.teleport.com/~jonno/
All you need to know about herb books: excellent in-depth reviews, a list
of must-read books, a list of stinkers, and a Reality Check.

Michael Tierra's page: http://www.planetherbs.com/
Nice setup, lots of goodies. Also includes high-quality www discussion
pages.

Henriette's Herbal Homepage: http://sunsite.unc.edu/herbmed/
Culinary and medicinal herblist archives, alt.folklore.herbs archives,
herbfaqs, pictures, neat stuff, and things. A Really Neat Site. (Tehehe.
Who says you can't plug your own homepage in a FAQ?)

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7.3 Herbal online discussions on the WWW

Any I left out? Drop me a line, and I'll add them.
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The newest, and probably (given time) highest quality WWW medicinal herb
discussion site is:

   * Michael Tierra's PlanetHerbs Online Forum -
     http://www.planetherbs.com/forum/goforum.html

One of the oldest (and very high-volume) herbal chat page is:

   * Algy's Herb Talk - http://www.algy.com/herb/index.html. Topics
     discussed include gardening of herbs, culinary and medicinal uses.

A nice and lively page:

   * Check the Ethnobotany Cafe Bulletin Board
     at http://countrylife.net/ethnobotany/main.html

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8 Mailing lists

Mailing lists have a distinct advantage over the online WWW chat pages: you
don't have to be online. Just pull down your email from the server, and
read and reply at leisure. It's lots cheaper for those of us who pay by the
minute.
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In addition to the lists mentioned here there's Herbal Hall, a low-volume,
high-quality list for professional herbalists, but that's by invitation
only. How do you get invited? Easy. Ask a friend who already is on Herbal
Hall to introduce you to the list. Or post quality stuff on the herblist
(or on alt.folklore.herbs) for a while - you'll probably get noticed and
invited.

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8.1 The Herblist, the Medicinal and Aromatic Plants discussion list

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A flammable list, with lots of knowledgeable herbalists on it. The flames
should go down now, I'm acting as listmom (as of Feb97), with rights to
unsub.

To subscribe: write to [e-mail] with the following
text:
SUBscribe HERB (your full name)

Be sure to read the Rules of the Game before posting there:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/herbmed/archives/herblist/rules.txt

Archives found on my www pages / in my ftp space:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/herbmed/

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8.2 The Aromatherapy list

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To subscribe, write to [e-mail] with the following text
join aromatherapy

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8.3 The Holistic lists: Holistic Discussion Groups

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There actually are two holistic lists nowadays:

8.3.1 The Holistic list for laymen

To subscribe: write to [e-mail] with the following text:
SUBscribe HOLISTIC-L (your full name)

8.3.2 The Holistic list for professionals

To subscribe: write to [e-mail] with the following text:
SUBscribe HOLISTIC-L (your full name)
If you decide to subscribe you will have to submit an introduction wherein
you clearly state that you are a healthcare professional.

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8.4 The Kombucha list

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To subscribe: write to [e-mail] with the following
text:
SUBSCRIBE
END

(If this doesn't work try HELP to the same address.)

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8.5 The Paracelsus Mailing list

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Subscription is limited to practitioners, educators, researchers and
students in alternative and conventional medical fields.

To subscribe: write to [e-mail] with the following text:
SUBSCRIBE PARACELSUS
and, as part of the subscription approval process, send a biographical note
indicating training, practice and interests to
[e-mail].

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8.6 The Chinese Herblist - The Chinese Herb and Health Discussion Forum

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It's quite dormant. Please start posting.

To subscribe: write to [e-mail] with the text:
SUBSCRIBE herb emailaddress
(like SUBSCRIBE herb [e-mail])
They also have a WWW page: http://www-geog.hkbu.edu.hk/health

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8.7 The Homeopathy List

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To subscribe: write to [e-mail] with the text:
join homeopathy

The archives for this list and a FAQ on homeopathy are kept on
http://www.dungeon.com/~cam/homlist.html

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8.8 The Phytopharmacognosy List

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Membership to the phyopharmacognosy discussion group is limited to
academics, industrialist, healthcare practitioners and others who have
-expertise- in medicinal plants.
To subscribe: write to:  [e-mail]
Subject: (leave blank)
Text: join phytopharmacognosy First-name Last-Name
The list is moderated.
Here's a WWW page for this list: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/pharm/

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8.9 The Culinary Herblist

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This is the list for the gardening and use of culinary herbs:
To subscribe: write to: [e-mail] with the text: subscribe

Archives found on my www pages / in my ftp space:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/herbmed/

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8.10 Napronet

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The purpose of NAPRONET is to provide a scientific forum to discuss
chemistry and biological activity of natural products.

To subscribe: write to: [e-mail] with the text:
SUBSCRIBE NAPRONET <your full name here>

It's a low-volume list.

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8.11 The Altmed-res -list

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Very low volume list, with no welcome message outlining the purpose of it,
so I guess some folks could just take it over, eh?

To subscribe: write to: [e-mail] with the text:
subscribe altmed-res

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8.12 The HerbMed -list

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An alternative medicinal herblist, formed because of the many flamewars on
the medicinal herblist (see 8.1 above).
This list is moderated. List moderator: [e-mail]

To subscribe: send a blank message to: [e-mail]

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8.13 The HerbInfo -list

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A low-volume alternative to the medicinal herblist, it's growing into
something nice.
To subscribe: write to: [e-mail] with the text: subscribe
herbinfo <your e-mail address here>
Leave the subject line blank.

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9 Related newsgroups

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You might want too check

   * misc.health.alternative
   * rec.gardens
   * rec.food.preserving
   * bionet.plants
   * sci.med.*
   * alt.support.cancer.prostate
   * alt.support.sinusitis
   * alt.support.prostate.prostatitis
   * alt.support.*
   * alt.aromatherapy (comes complete with the usual complaint: 'my site
     doesn't carry this one' - well mine doesn't so I can't say what they
     talk about over there)

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Henriette Kress             [e-mail]            Helsinki, Finland
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