Alternative Herbs
Below are some useful links about Herbs on Alternative:
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- Health: Alternative: Essences (31)
- Health: Alternative: Folk Medicine (42)
- Home: Cooking: Herbs and Spices (81)
- Home: Gardening: Plants: Herbs (61)
- Science: Biology: Botany: Ethnobotany (49)
Botanical.com  - Provides an electronic, searchable version of "A Modern Herbal," by Maud Grieve. Also includes message boards, articles, book reviews, and links. |
| About.com: Healthy Herbs - Weekly features and extras, product and book reviews, free newsletter, chat and bulletin board from About.com. |
| Alternative Nature Herbals - Includes articles, herb profiles with horticulture and remedy information, a gallery of photographs, and links to other herbal sites. |
| BC Herb Growers Association - Provides information about the organization and its members, news, educational opportunities, and an online herb database. |
| Botanical Dermatology Database - An electronic, searchable version of "Botanical Dermatology," by John Mitchell and Arthur Rook, which includes a botanical index. |
| Bouquet Garni Herbs - Provides information about growing herbs, and using them for health, beauty, and cooking. |
| Culpeper's Herbal Online - Full text of Culpeper's Complete Herbal (1653 edition). Includes breakdown by individual herb, directions for making remedies and catalog of simples. |
| The Daisy Institute - Information and testimonials about using herbal remedies for various life-threatening diseases. |
| Diet-and-Health.net: Naturopathy - Includes list of herbs using in naturopathic remedies, with information about their uses and hazards. |
| Directory of Herbs - A list of herbs and plants and their magical properties. |
| Essiac Information Site - Information about the herbal tea known as essiac, including history, controversial issues, scams, marketer ethics, product prices, and recipes. |
| Evening-Primrose-Oil.com - Provides articles and information about the possible health uses of evening primrose oil, including PMS, autoimmune conditions, inflammation, and weight loss. |
| goodHealthinfo.net - Seven Boston-area herbalists discuss their approaches to correcting imbalances in the body's energy, using herbs and muscle testing. |
| GreyWing’s Herbal - An online text with chapters about history, harvesting, drying, horticulture, preparations, and therapeutic actions. |
| Healing Herbs - An interactive community offering herbal information, recipes, chat, discussion groups, events, gardening information, and herb photos. |
| The Herb Coach - An e-zine containing herbal and natural health news. |
| The Herb Index - An online guide for herbs and supplements, includes scientific names and contra-indications. |
| Herb Net - Collection of resources, including herb profiles, a practitioner directory, and a calendar of events. |
| Herb Research Foundation - Orgainization dedicated to researching and providing scientific information on the safety and health benefits of botanicals throughout the world from multiple medical traditions. Find information about services and resources, news, and sustainable development. |
| The Herb Society of America - Provides history and purpose, membership information, projects, programs, publications, calendar, conferences and scholarships. Includes herb profiles, seed exchange forum, and plant collection information. |
| Herb Wisdom - Includes information about toxicity, recipes, lore, history, remedies, and herbs for pets. |
| Herbal Contraception - Discussion of herbs that have been used through history to prevent conception, with modern observations on how they work. |
| The Herbal Encyclopedia - Alphabetical listing of healing herbs, with information about medicinal and religious uses, and culivation. Also provides articles about safety, storage, remedies, recipes, and special uses. |
| Herbal Legacy - Offering herb information sponsored by Christopher Publications. Includes sections about recipes, ailments, formulas, programs and literature. |
| The Herbal Nexus - Herbs, their uses, folklore, medical information, photos, and a bookstore. |
| Herbal Safety - Facts and safety information presented by the University of Texas El Paso. Includes an introduction to scientific monographs, herb fact sheets, articles, and presentations. |
| Herbs for Weight Loss - Article about effectiveness and safety of herbs for weight loss, including ephedra, hoodia gordonii, cayenne, green tea, seaweed, nettle, ginseng, cascara, and senna. |
| Herbs Herbals - Information about individual herbs, and instructions for making various types of herbal preparations. |
| Herbtalk Discussion - A free email discussion group with information about herb safety, remedies, and recipes. |
| Holisticonline.com: Herbs - Herbal knowledgebase covers more than 2000 herbs from around the world. Also provides information about remedies, interactions, preparations, and regulation. |
| Home Made Medicine - Provides information about herbal healing, home remedies, and a complete guide listed by illness. |
| Juniper and Sage - Includes information on preparing and using herbs for medicinal and culinary purposes, and organic growing and wildcrafting. |
| kellymom.com: Herbs and Breastfeeding - Provides articles about how herbs affect lactation, and safety information for nursing mothers. Includes research and book references. |
| Laurie Lacey's Wild World of Plants - Information about traditional use of plant and tree medicines. Also offers workshops, a weblog, and links. |
| Linda's Herbal Remedies - Information about individual herbs and blends, and how to make remedies, salves, extracts, and capsules. |
| Medicines and Foods from the Wild - Information about identifying, preparing, and using wild medicinal and edible plants in the northeastern United States. |
| Padma 28 And Tibetan Herbal Formulation - Discusses clinical and research study about Padma 28, a tibetan herbal formulation. |
| Pioneer Thinking: Herbal Health - Offers an alphabetical database of herbs and ailments, and articles about gardening and making herbal preparations. |
| Southwest School of Botanical Medicine - Medicinal plant photographs, illustrations, maps, abstracts, constituents, monographs, major papers and folios by genus and species. |
| Suite 101: Herbalism - Articles, discussions, and links on the uses of herbs for medicinal and magical purposes. Also includes suggestions for seasonal home remedies, crafts, tricks, and tips. |
| Suite 101: Historical Uses of Herbs - Offers articles on history, as well as information on current research. |
| Trickstar in the Herb Garden - Includes a glossary, monographs, properties and phytochemicals, and an email newsletter. |
