Plants, Herbs, Health Related, Gardening, Cultivating, etc...
Updated 2/20/01

Welcome to Plants, Herbs, and other Health Related Things!....

Susan's favorite list of links, jumps, and info

Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
Plant chemical information databases; chemical and ethnobotanical searches; poisonous plants, health related, nutritional databases, dictionaries, browsable databases; mini-courses; plant and cancer treatments
Biomedical Information Resources - by Subject
A clearing house of bio-medic info
Australasian College of Herbal Studies USA
Study age-old herbal and natural healing wisdom in a wide range of comprehensive Distance Learning Courses all run by the Australasian College of Herbal Studies. I recommend it highly.
History of Biomedicine
Compilation of many branches of history. Very informative.
Michael Moore - SW School of Botanical Science
Contains a helpful Materia Medica, lots of articles, and a large database of herb pictures
Plants for a Future - Database Search
One of the best for getting all types of information about herbs
Henriette's Herbal Homepage
Strongly recommended site for good information, faqs, archives, links, etc.
Herbal Materia Medica - HealthWorld Online
Long lists of herbs and their uses
HerbNET
A comprehensive site for those seeking information on herbs, herb products and remedies, herb publications . . .
Herbal Home Rememdies
Illness and their cures
Alternative Nature Home Page
Lots of articles and links related to healthy lifestyles, as well as diseases and cures
Medicinal Herbs Research
An excellent Canadian-sponsored site with very specific growing, harvesting, and medicinal properties of a few herbs
UPDATED LINK! Mother Earth Herbs
High Quality, Ethically crafted herbs
Pure Food Campaign Homepage
Clearinghouse for information and grassroots technical assistance
Quick N'dex HealthWorld Online
A wide list of health related topics
Herbal Hall - Home for Herbs
They claim to be "Possibly the Internet's most complete library for Herbs"
Herb Society (UK)
Good information
Tao Alternative Health Care - Helping People Survive
Fasting, colon cleansing and alternative therapies - Extremely informative. Take a quiz and see how much you know. A good site to bookmark.
Richters Herbs
Catalog for buying all types of herb seeds and plants
Horizon Herbs
Medicinal Seeds and Live Roots Certified Organically Grown
Least Toxic Controls for common garden pests
don't use Sevin - get organic!!
Master Gardener Q&A
You got any kind of plant question? This site should have an answer!
Garden Guides
A "growing" resource for all gardeners
The Scutellaria Homepage
All about growing and harvesting scullcap, as well as seed collection, etc.
The Gardener's Library
Contains a great search engine called the Plant Encyclopedia
Seeds Germination Database
Gives tons of information on every type of seed and how best to germinate
The Garden Gate
More links!
Index to Articles About Seeds
Scared to start from seeds? Get the scoop here!
Weed Images
Good pictures with descriptions of weeds [but what is a weed?]
GardenMart
Lots of gardening info
Horticulture and Home Pest News
Articles on current horticulture plant care, pest management, and common household pests written by Iowa State University Extension specialists
GardenWeb
Includes some helpful forums on every type of gardening, including herbs and their uses
Almanac.Com
Old Farmer's Almanac
Propagation by Cuttings
Great info on rooting hormones, willow water, etc
PLANTS National Database
United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service
Mallorn Archived Email Lists
Archived active horticultural mailing lists - great way to learn!
Internet Directory for Botany
Subject Category list for anything Botanical - also some great search engines
The Backyard Wildlife Habitat Program - National Wildlife Federation
Information on natural landscaping, creating wildlife habitats, and other related info
Plantain
Information I compiled on Plantain, a miraculous plant
Red Clover
Information I compiled on Red Clover
 

So goes an old chinese proverb: If you want to be happy for a few hours, get drunk; If you want to be happy for a week-end get married; If you want to be happy for a week, barbeque a pig; If you want to be happy all your life long become a gardener

The History of Medicine: (author unknown)

I have an earache:
2000BC-Here, eat this root
1000AD-That root is heathen. Here, say this prayer.
1850AD-That prayer is superstition. Here, drink this potion
1940AD-That potion is snakeoil. Here, swallow this pill.
1985AD-That pill is ineffective. Here, take this antibiotic.
2000AD-that antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root.

Thoughts for the day

Change is inevitable....except from vending machines.
If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
Asking dumb questions is easier than correcting dumb mistakes.
The test of a person's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
Never knock on Death's door; ring the doorbell and run (he hates that).
The mind is like a parachute; it works much better when it's open.

Whew! Think I will go have a cup of nettle tea now!

 

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