Links I like ...
... in no particular order - Last changed 09May97.
Herbal medicine, mostly
- Michael Moore's homepage (with lots of goodies): http://chili.rt66.com/hrbmoore/HOMEPAGE
- Howie Brounstein's homepage (still more goodies): http://www.teleport.com/~howieb/howie.html
- Michael Tierra's site (yet more goodies): http://www.planetherbs.com/
- Jonathan Treasure's Herbal Bookworm site: http://www.teleport.com/~jonno/ - good in-depth reviews of recent books on herbal medicine, a list of good books, a list of stinkers; as a whole it's a nice setup, with Reality Check and all
- Herbal Hall, the one and only: lots of goodies: http://www.herb.com/herbal.htm; I like the 'Beginners' page, a lot ;)
- Go see what the American Herbalists Guild is doing, at http://www.healthy.com/herbalists/
- Check the Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute -pages (focused on chinese herbs): http://www.ronan.net:80/~rmhi/index.html
- Or try the Plant Tracker, with it's big plant database: http://www.axis-net.com/pfaf/index.htm - the original is available in the UK under http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/index.html
- Ed Greenwood has scanned + OCR:d + HTML:d the full Modern Herbal, by Maude Grieve. Good Stuff: http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/mgmh.html
- The Healthy.net site is good, too, with its nifty search engine yielding articles by David Hoffmann and Christopher Hobbs, among others: http://www.healthy.net/Architext/AT-Completequery.html
- The MediHerb homepage: http://www.peg.apc.org/~mediherb/ (you don't know MediHerb? If you are a practitioner you should go have a look, and then ask for more information at the address provided. It's -the- quality text provider in Australia, and, I hear, also -the- quality herb provider in Australia - but only to practitioners.)
- The Hoptechno site, with info on David Hoffmann's CD-Rom: http://www.hoptechno.com
- The Thorne Research Abstracts page: http://www.thorne.com/thorne_abstracts.html
- The Acupuncture homepage - Good Stuff: http://www.Acupuncture.com/ , also featuring a Real Gem: http://www.Acupuncture.com/Herbology/Fairy.htm - go have a look
- Tony Torkelson's nice ethnobotany page: http://Walden.MO.NET:80/~tonytork/
- Cyberbotanica, a site with some plant chemistry: http://biotech.chem.indiana.edu/botany/
- A nicely done history of Western Biomedicine: http://www.mic.ki.se/West.html
- A site with free Medline access: http://www.healthgate.com/HealthGate/MEDLINE/search.shtml
- And then there's Medscape, which gives free Medline access and more: http://www5.medscape.com
- The Merck Manual, 16th edition, is online at: http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/html/sectoc.htm
- Check the classy Rainforest site: http://rain-tree.com/index.html
- Eine deutsche Seite: http://members.aol.com/feenreich/herbs/index.html (Tehehe - aol in Germany? What a joke. Let's see how long it takes before America reaches Finland. I knew the yanks have a problem with expanding their borders, but this is getting out of hand.)
Herbal link collections
- The Herbnet, a nice setup: http://www.herbnet.com/
- Garden Net's homepage: http://trine.com/GardenNet/
- The Garden Gate: http://www.prairienet.org/garden-gate/
- The Gardening Launch Pad: http://www.tpoint.net/neighbor/
- A Finnish collection of botany links: http://www.helsinki.fi/kmus/botmenu.html
- World of Herbs: http://pages.prodigy.com/FL/Tampa/lemon/hercoi.htm
- Algy's herb page: http://www.algy.com/herb/index.html - it is one of the biggest herb link sites on the net.
Excite has a tour for medicinal
herbs and one for alternative
medicine (and lots more on health and zillions on other topics) - quality
links, folks (... I'm on both tours)
Botanical things
- A list of plant relations so you can find out about possible food allergies,
based on botany: http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/purrhome.html
- nice entrance. Go for the Food Intolerance link -
added 21Apr97 - DELTA Descriptions of flowering plants: http://muse.bio.cornell.edu/delta/angio/www/index.htm (a treasuretrove for botanists),
- and another must for the botanically inclined, from the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service: The PLANTS National Database at http://trident.ftc.nrcs.usda.gov/plants/
- For all Finns: The Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Finland: http://www.helsinki.fi/kmus/chklst.html
- Want to know what those latin names mean? Check Garden Gate's Roots of Botanical names at: http://www.prairienet.org/ag/garden/botrts.htm
- Om du talar svenska kan du gå och titta på 'Bilder ur Nordens Flora' - illustrations and descriptions of Nordic plants: http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/nordflor/alfindex.html
- Ja jos puhut Suomea tämä sivu varmaan miellyttää: http://hepo.cc.lut.fi/~karhemaa/WWWS1.html
- Check this page, called Wild Plants of Western Turkey; it's got nice pics with nice texts: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~bbeer/turkplant.html
- Plants of the Machiguenga: http://www.montana.com/manu/
- PNW Conifers (Neat Stuff): http://www.orst.edu/instruct/for241/
- Another nice botanical site: http://www.cc.mancol.edu/science/biology/plants_new/intro/plantmen.html
- Marco Bleeker's page, with links and plant pictures: http://www.euronet.nl/users/mbleeker/
- And finally, for tonguewrenching 'mercans (with their gruesome pronounciations), here's how you should do the latin names: http://www.rt66.com/~telp/latin.htm (Arctou-steifilous juva-jursai my behind - give me clean Finnish/Swedish/German pronounciations any day, and an air hostess who understands that I want coffee the first time I ask for it ...)
Culinary and gardening stuff, mostly
- Lawrence London's sunSITE archives page: http://sunSITE.unc.edu/london/Information_By_Topic.html
- Go have a look at Greenfingers, a Gardening Magazine for the Internet (from the UK): http://www.internetgarden.co.uk/greenfingers/index.htm
- Or go check out The Internet Garden: nice setup, really good links: http://www.internetgarden.co.uk
- The Healthy Living channel article abstracts database: http://pathfinder.com/HLC/lookitup/abstracts.html
- The Time Gardening Encyclopedia site: http://pathfinder.com/cgi-bin/VG/vg
- A nice culinary herb site: http://www.teleport.com/~ronl/herbs/herbs.html
- The Internet Chef (Real Neat Site): http://www.ichef.com/
- Try Linda's Herbal House for crafts and things: http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/3006
- The Kitchen Link - herbs, spices, marinades and condiments: http://www.kitchenlink.com/rcpherbs.html
- The Weekend Gardener / The Official Seed Starting Homepage / Herb Seeds: http://www.chestnut-sw.com/seeds/herbseed.htm
- Try the Low Budget Gardening pages: http://www.telcomplus.com/~rtylor/ - I like the setup, the growing flowers, and the worm.
- Here's an extensive site with a lot of information on culinary herbs and spices - just browse around: http://bkfug.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/spice_alph.html
Not plants at all, but still fun
- Check what Helsinki looks like today (or 10 minutes ago) (if you're real lucky you get to be the one fiddling the controls) (I live in the part called Meilahti): http://www.zorro.org/scripts/camera.dll
- Want to save your favorite newsgroup? Here's a neat way to do it: http://www.boutell.com/boutell/usenet.html - anyone want to set it up for alt.folklore.herbs?
- Ever been to the Oregon Country Fair? If you haven't, you should go. If you have, here's some pics to help you remember the feeling: http://www.efn.org/~ocf/ - thanks for taking me there, Howie.
- A really nice way to show what a proper winter should be like: http://icecube.acf-lab.alaska.edu/~fxjac/winter.htm (could be Finland... but it's Fairbanks, Alaska)
- A page with links to a great many excerpts from Ambrose Bierce's devil's dictionary (wiiide grin - now when will I have time to read them all?): http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/Bierce/forked.html - this page is the 'Forked Tongue' but there's links to the 4 different devil's dictionary files available on this site (they're all big), as well as the file on Musical Instruments (this is smaller).