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Botanical Resources

Economic and Medicinal Botany


** Economic Botany and Ethnobotany
Algy's Herb Page
Alternative medicine resources
Alternative Nature Online Herbal
The American Herbal Pharmacopoeia
American Indian Ethnobotany Database
American Botanical Council: A site devoted to the use of herbs and phytomedicinals
American Herbalist Guild
Ayurvedic Foundations
BABEL: A multi-Lingual database for the vernacular names of European wild plants
Botanical Dermatology Database and family list
Centre for Economic Botany: Numerous web links on economic botany from the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew
Chinese Herbal Sciences
CropSearch
Cyberbotanica - Plant Compounds and Chemotherapy
Economic Botany Leaflets
Economic plants database: U.S.D.A. Handb. 505 (revised) of names of economically important vascular plants
The Edible LC
The Ethnobiology and Conservation Team
Ethnobotanical Resource Directory
Ethnobotany: Listing of sites from the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew
"Ethnobotany and economic botany of the North American flora": By C.B. Heiser, Jr., in Flora of North America
Ethnobotany and paleoethnobotany: A bibliographic listing by M.A. Pfeiffer
Ethnobotany Cafe
EthnobotDB by Stephen M. Beckstrom-Sternberg and James A. Duke
Ethnolinks
EthnoMedicinal
Famine foods: Plants used in times of famine
Foodplant DB by Stephen M. Beckstrom-Sternberg and James A. Duke
Grieve's "A Modern Herbal"
Guide to poisonous and toxic plants
Health World Online
Herbal Bookworm
The Herbal Encyclopedia: By Liza Waltz
Herbal Hall
Herbal Links: From the American Herbal Guild
Herbal links: From Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute
HerbMed
Henriette's Herbal Homepage
Herbal-Medical Glossary by Michael Moore
Herb Research Foundation
Herbal Treats
History of biomedicine
History of traditional Chinese medicine
History of traditional Indian medicine
Herbals: Imagines and information about herbals
HerbWeb
Internet sources of information on alternative medicine: An article with links by Bonnie Snow
Introduction to Ethnobotany: By C. Veilleux & S.R.King
Links to interesting sites relating to ethobotany
Köhler's Medizinal Pflanzen
Links to guides on vitamins, minerals, herbs, etc. from Austis Nutritional Research
Magic Garden: Links to culinary and medicinal herb sites
Medical Botany Syllabus by James A. Duke
Medical Herbalism
Medicinal plants of native Americans: By D.E. Moerman & S.M. Beckstrom-Sternberg
Medicinal Plant Databases
Medicinal Plant Garden at the University of Washington
MedLine
MedWeb: Alternative Medicine
Native American Ethnobotany by Dan Moerman
Native American Food Plants by Stephen M. Beckstrom-Sternberg and James A. Duke
NativeTech: Includes information on the use of plants by native American peoples
PhytochemDB - The Phytochemical Database by Stephen M. Beckstrom-Sternberg and James A. Duke
PlanetHerbs
The Plant Tracker
Poisonous plants of North Carolina
Psychedelic Space
Rainforest pharmacy: From Rain-tree
Reference Guide to Herbs
Shamanism
The Shaman's Apprentice: An interview with Mark Plotkin
Soaring Bear's Link to herbal information: An excellent source of information and Web links
Southwest School of Botanical Medicine
Traditional Herbal & Plant Knowledge: Useful links to other resources
United Plant Savers: An effort to save America's medicinal plants
Useful information sources for herbalists
U.S. Pharmacopeia (Botanicals)
Varieties of medicinal foods: Mainly Chinese
Wild edible plants
Wild World of Plants: Medicinal information on eastern Canadian plants WorldWide Wellness: Information on alternative medicines
WWW Ethnobotanical Resource Directory


Last revised: 27 Oct 1997
Maintained by James L. Reveal
Norton-Brown Herbarium (MARY)
E-mail: jr19@umail.umd.edu