Medicinal Plants of Native America Data Base
This database is based on a two-volume book of the same name published in 1986 by the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Michigan. The database -- which contains 17,634 items representing the medicinal uses of 2,147 species from 760 genera and 142 families by 123 different native American groups -- was built over a period of about 10 years with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the
National Science Foundation, and the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
United Plant Savers
United Plant Savers' mission is to protect native medicinal plants of the United States and Canada and their native habitat while ensuring an abundant renewable supply of medicinal plants for generations to come.
Center for International Ethnomedical Education and Research
CIEER is a nonprofit educational and research organization developed to establish a focal point for the exchange of ethnomedicinal knowledge and to establish an international network of ethnobotanical researchers. CIEER's goals are to educate the public concerning the use
of plants for healing by traditional cultures and to promote the safe and effective use of medicinal plants.
Medicine Keepers; Issues in Indigenous Health
Diseases such as Minamata disease, lung cancer, breast cancer, congenital anomalies, lead poisoning, obesity, diabetes, and heart disease can all be traced to collisions of culture in Indigenous communities. When Indigenous Peoples speak about restoring health, they talk about restoring the land in the same breath. For Indigenous Peoples, health is linked to the health of the land, health of the culture, and spiritual health.
HerbWeb
Selected herbs from The CRC Ethnobotany Desk Reference which contains almost 30,000 concise ethnobotanical monographs of plant species characteristics and an inventory of claimed attributes and historical uses by cultures throughout the world.
Plant Abstracts
Abstracts give one a place to start, a general idea of what topics and results are being pursued in current
reasearch...they offer a detailed weathervane for the scientific climate. These are generally abstracts from the last 10 years, and, as always, are predominantly of European and Asian plant research, usually on European and Asian plants.
Medical Botany; a mini course by James A Duke
Southwest School of Botanical Medicine
Michael Moore's home on the web; botanical illustrations, manuals, classic texts, research and a good dose of humor!
Henriette's Herbal Homepage
Medicinal and culinary herb faqs, herbal newsgroups and mailings lists, articles, botanical pictures, and a plant name data base.
