Open Directory - Health: Alternative: Herbs
See also: This category in other languages: - Provides an electronic, searchable version of "A Modern Herbal," by Maud Grieve. Also includes message boards, articles, book reviews, and links. - Weekly features and extras, product and book reviews, free newsletter, chat and bulletin board from About.com. - Includes articles, herb profiles with horticulture and remedy information, a gallery of photographs, and links to other herbal sites. - An electronic, searchable version of "Botanical Dermatology," by John Mitchell and Arthur Rook, which includes a botanical index. - Provides information about growing herbs, and using them for health, beauty, and cooking. - Full text of Culpeper's Complete Herbal (1653 edition). Includes breakdown by individual herb, directions for making remedies and catalog of simples. - Includes list of herbs using in naturopathic remedies, with information about their uses and hazards. - Information about the herbal tea known as essiac, including history, controversial issues, scams, marketer ethics, product prices, and recipes. - Provides articles and information about the possible health uses of evening primrose oil, including PMS, autoimmune conditions, inflammation, and weight loss. - Collection of resources, including herb profiles, a practitioner directory, and a calendar of events. - Organization 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. - Includes information about toxicity, recipes, lore, history, remedies, and herbs for pets. - Discussion of herbs that have been used through history to prevent conception, with modern observations on how they work. - Offering herb information sponsored by Christopher Publications. Includes sections about recipes, ailments, formulas, programs and literature. - Facts and safety information presented by the University of Texas El Paso. Includes an introduction to scientific monographs, herb fact sheets, articles, and presentations. - Information about individual herbs, and instructions for making various types of herbal preparations. - Article about effectiveness and safety of herbs for weight loss, including ephedra, hoodia gordonii, cayenne, green tea, seaweed, nettle, ginseng, cascara, and senna. - A free email discussion group with information about herb safety, remedies, and recipes. - Herbal knowledgebase covers more than 2000 herbs from around the world. Also provides information about remedies, interactions, preparations, and regulation. - Provides information about herbal healing, home remedies, and a complete guide listed by illness. - Includes information on preparing and using herbs for medicinal and culinary purposes, and organic growing and wildcrafting. - Information about traditional use of plant and tree medicines. Also offers workshops, a weblog, and links. - Information about identifying, preparing, and using wild medicinal and edible plants in the northeastern United States. - Offers an alphabetical database of herbs and ailments, and articles about gardening and making herbal preparations. - Medicinal plant photographs, illustrations, maps, abstracts, constituents, monographs, major papers and folios by genus and species. - Information and testimonials about using herbal remedies for various life-threatening diseases. - An e-zine containing herbal and natural health news. - An online guide for herbs and supplements, includes scientific names and contra-indications. - Provides history and purpose, membership information, projects, programs, publications, calendar, conferences and scholarships. Includes herb profiles, seed exchange forum, and plant collection information. - Alphabetical listing of healing herbs, with information about medicinal and religious uses, and cultivation. Also provides articles about safety, storage, remedies, recipes, and special uses. - Includes a glossary, monographs, properties and phytochemicals, and an email newsletter. - Seven Boston-area herbalists discuss their approaches to correcting imbalances in the body's energy, using herbs and muscle testing. - Provides articles about how herbs affect lactation, and safety information for nursing mothers. Includes research and book references.
