Centre
for International Ethnomedical Education and Research
The Centre for
International Ethnomedical Education and Research is a non-profit
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. The site features
bibliographies, databases, publications, online courses, research
projects, a web directory, and more pertaining to medicinal plants.
www.cieer.org/
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Gray
Card Index
This
database of the Harvard University Herbaria catalogues over 325,000
citations of names of New World vascular plants.
www.herbaria.harvard.edu/data/gray/
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Guide
to Economic Botany Links
It is designed to answer some of the queries received at the Centre for
Economic Botany,
Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, UK, about useful & poisonous plants, and
to act as a resource for the wider ethnobotanical community, particularly
students. Coverage focuses on sites that are information-rich and current,
and includes significant coverage of medicinal plants.
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/scihort/eblinks/
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Herb walk
Herbwalk.com is an
online community where people talk about herbs. The site contains also a
discussion forum on herbs for pets.
www.herbwalk.com/
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Human
beings and useful plants for food and medicine
This site of
Ethnopharmacologist Andrea Pieroni focuses on natural foods and herbs,
medicinal plants, and their use by different peoples. The site also offers
information on publications and conferences.
www.netcologne.de/~nc-pieronan2
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Medicinal
Plants for Livestock
Established by the
Animal Science Department of Cornell University in the USA, this site
focuses on medicinal plants for livestock and discusses topics such as
their safety and efficacy.
www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/medicinal
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NAPRALERT
Operated by the
Natural Products Alert Project (NAPRALERT) at the Department of
Pharmacognosy and Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of
Illinois, USA, this website offers a computerised database on the
chemistry and pharmacology of natural medicinal materials. The database is
available for a fee from the Scientific and Technical Information Network.
www.ag.uiuc.edu/~ffh/napra.html
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PRELUDE
The PRELUDE network
(Programme for REsearch and Link between Universities for DEvelopment) aims
to link researchers from different backgrounds (University and
Non-University) in a spirit of partnership with the various participants
of co-development. The site includes a large database on African medicinal
and veterinary plants.
http://pc4.sisc.ucl.ac.be/prelude.html
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SEPASAL
Operated by the
Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, UK, this website features a database derived
from the Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (SEPASAL).
The database contains information on more than 6,200 useful tropical and
subtropical dryland species, excluding major crops.
www.rbgkew.org.uk/ceb/sepasal/internet/
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Shaman
This is the site of
Shaman, a pharmaceutical firm that develops and sells clinically tested
botanical dietary supplements from tropical plants with a history of
medicinal use.
www.shamanbotanicals.com/
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Society
of Medicinal Plant Research
Site links to other
pages of interest, such as the Phytochemical Society of Europe and the
Society for Economic Botany.
www.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/WWW/GA/Welcome.html
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VAST
The
VAST (VAScular Tropicos) nomenclature databases can be accessed at this
Missouri Botanical Garden website. The databases contain a wealth of
botanical and bibliographic data collected over the last 12 years by
staff, students, and visitors of the MBG, as well as information gathered
by several cooperative and other projects and institutions.
www.mobot.org/search.html
