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Selected Internet Resources
on Medicinal Plants:
A Science Reference Section Webliography
Science, Technology, and Business Division
Library of Congress
Prairie flax - Linum lewisii Pursh var. lewisii
USDA Plants Database
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AGRICOLA: this database from the National Agricultural Library
is a good resource for locating bibliographic information.
http://www.nal.usda.gov
American Botanical Council: herbal news and information.
http://www.herbalgram.org/
Andean Botanical Information System: information from floristic
and systematic investigations of the flowering plants (phanerogams)
of Andean South America.
http://www.sacha.org/
The Center for
Complementary & Alternative Pharmacotherapy (CCAP):
affiliated with the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health
Sciences.
http://www.mcp.edu/rc/altmed/index.shtml
Green Medicine: home of the Medicinal Plants Working Group.
http://www.nps.gov/plants/medicinal/
The Herb Society of America: concerned with the cultivation of herbs
and with the study of their history and their uses, both past and
present
http://www.herbsociety.org/
Lloyd Library and Museum: collects botanical, medical, pharmaceutical,
and scientific books and periodicals.
http://www.lloydlibrary.org/
Memorial Sloan
Kettering Information Resource: Herbs, Botanicals and Other Products: “evidence-based information on herbs, botanicals,
vitamins, and other supplements.”
http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/11570.cfm
Mini-Course in Medical
Botany: an informative compilation from Dr.
James Duke, a noted ethnobotanist.
http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/syllabus/
Native American EthnoBotany: U. of Michigan’s database of
food, drugs, dyes, and fibers.
http://herb.umd.umich.edu/
Non
Timber Forest Products: Links from the Special Forest Products
Program at Virginia Tech .
http://www.sfp.forprod.vt.edu/sfp_link/medicinal.htm
Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical
Databases: Dr. James A. Duke’s
databases.
http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/
Plants of the Machiguenga: a neurologist’s record of Peruvian
rain forest plants.
http://manu.montana.com/
Plants for a Future: a U.K. resource centre for rare and unusual
plants, particularly those which have edible, medicinal or other
uses.
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/
Rainforest Medical Foundation:established by a group of physicians
who realized that the loss of the rainforest is also an enormous
loss of resources for both western and non-western medicine.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rainmed/
Society for Economic Botany: encourages scientific research, education,
and related activities on the past, present, and future uses of plants,
and the relationship between plants and people.
http://www.econbot.org/
Southwest
School of Botanical Medicine: an eclectic collection of
links and resources, including ones of historical interest.
http://www.swsbm.com/HOMEPAGE/HomePage.html
University of Washington
Medicinal Herb Garden: includes images of
herbs indexed by both common and botanical names.
http://www.nnlm.gov/pnr/uwmhg
USDA PLANTS Database: provides standardized information about the
vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the
U.S. and its territories.
http://plants.usda.gov/
United Plant Savers: goal is to protect native medicinal plants
of the U.S. and Canada.
http://unitedplantsavers.org/
Veterinary Botanical Medical Association: dedicated to developing
responsible herbal practice for animals.
http://www.vbma.org/
Compiled by Alison P. Kelly February 2004 |