Embedded Files
Plant identification
Plant identification
Newcomb L. Wildflower Guide. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1977.
Elias TS, Dykeman PA. Field Guide to North American Edible Wild Plants. Outdoor Life Books, New York, 1982.
Foster S, Duke JA. Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1990.
Pharmacognosy/Pharmacology
Pharmacognosy/Pharmacology
Bruneton J. Pharmacognosy: Phytochemistry medicinal plants, 2nd Ed. Intercept, Hampshire U.K.,1999:86.
Dewick PM. Medicinal natural products:a biosynthetic approach. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1997.
Evans WC. Trease and Evans Pharmacognosy, 14th Ed. WB Saunders Company Ltd, London, 1996.
Huang KC. The pharmacology of Chinese herbs, 2nd ed. CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1999.
Robbers JE, Speedie MK, Tyler VE. Pharmacognosy and Pharmacobiotechnology. Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, 1996.
History and ethnobotany
History and ethnobotany
Balick MJ, Cox PA. Plants, people and culture: the science of ethnobotany. New York: Scientific American Library, a division of HPHLP), 1996.
Erichsen-Brown C. Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants: A Historical Survey with Special Reference to the Eastern Indian Tribes. Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1979
Grieve M. A modern herbal. Tiger Books Intl, London 1998 (first published in 1931 by Jonathan Cape Ltd): 176-178.
Griggs B. Green Pharmacy: the history and evolution of Western herbal medicine. Healing Arts Press, Rochester VT, 1991.
Le Strange, R. A History of Herbal Plants. Arco Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1977.
Lewis WH, Elvin-Lewis MPF. Medical Botany: Plants Affecting Man’s Health. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1977.
Biodiversity
Biodiversity
Plant/Seed Supply Resources
Plant/Seed Supply Resources
Books for clinicians
Books for clinicians
Bisset NG, Wichtl M. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. Medpharm GmbH Scientific Publishers, Stuttgart/CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1994.
Blumenthal M (ed.). The ABC Clinical Guide to Herbs. Austin TX: American Botanical Council, 2003.
Bratman S, Girman AM. Handbook of Herbs and Supplements and their Therapeutic Uses. Mosby, St. Louis, 2003.
Duke JA. Handbook of Medicinal Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2001.
Foster S, Tyler VE. Tyler’s Honest Herbal, 4th Ed. Haworth Herbal Press New York, 1999.
Fugh-Berman A. The 5-Minute Herb and Dietary Supplement Consult. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2003.
McGuffin M, Hobbs C, Upton R, Goldberg A (eds.). American Herbal Products Association’s Botanical Safety Handbook. Boca Raton, CRC Press, 1997.
McKenna DJ, Jones K, Hughes K. Botanical medicine: the desk reference for major herbal supplements, 2nd Ed. Haworth Press, Binghamton NY, 2002.
Mills S, Bone K. Principles and practice of phytotherapy: modern herbal medicine. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, 2000.
Rotblatt M, Ziment I. Evidence-based herbal medicine. Hanley & Belfus, Philadelphia, 2002.
Other resources:
Other resources:
American Botanical Council
American Botanical Council
P.O. Box 144345; Austin, TX 78714-4345; (800) 373-7105
(512) 926-4900, fax: (512) 926-2345
E-mail: custerv@herbalgram.org
Website: http://www.herbalgram.org
American Herbal Pharmacopoeia
American Herbal Pharmacopoeia
A research and education organization; publishes HerbalGram, a quarterly magazine on herbs
PO Box 66809, Scotts Valley, CA. 95067; (831) 461-6318, fax: (831) 475-6219
Email: ahpadmin@got.net
Website: www.herbal-ahp.org
HerbMed
HerbMed
Provides consumer information, and individualized research services
Website: http://www.herbmed.org
Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical databases
Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical databases
An interactive, electronic database that provides links to scientific data on medicinal herbs used for health
National Center for Complementary and Alernative Medicine
National Center for Complementary and Alernative Medicine
Lists hundreds of medicinal plants, with the type of chemical agents isolated from each
P.O. Box 7923, Gaithersburg, MD 20898; (888) 644-6226
Email: info@nccam.nih.gov
Website: http://www.nccam.nih.gov/
Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Provides a database on herbs and dietary supplements
Website: http://ods.od.nih.gov/index.aspx
Photos:
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Urban Herbs Project Photographers:
Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD ( ajf29@georgetown.edu)
Vi Nguyen, MS (vnn3@georgetown.edu)
Veronica Mucciarone (vm408@georgetown.edu)
Ayden Cooper, MS ( aydengreen@hotmail.com)
Beth Johnson, MS ( m31stardust@gmail.com)
Brian Peng, MS ( bpeng@alum.wustl.edu)
Dot Coffer, MS( dorothea.coffer@gmail.com)
Jae Oh, MS (jso9@georgetown.edu)
Suzanne Bauguess ( smb228@georgetown.edu)
Liang Huang
Andrea Sikora
Disclaimer
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