Eastern civilizations, for more than 5000 years, have taken an approach that focuses on preventive health measures and natural healing. Ancient herbologists discovered that the effective substances in many plants would enhance health, beauty, clarity of thought and amplify the energies of the body. Eastern science focuses on giving the plant ingredients to the body, coupled with their natural organic carriers, in order that the body legislates what it needs. The body naturally does the extracting and regulating of the required substances. Herbal medicines, in theory, can prevent degeneration, nutritionally support the healthy maintenance of the systems within the body, and maintain overall health and well-being.
Hena’s
Herb Garden (http://www.geocities.com/~greengarden/index2.html)
Gives an easy to follow directory to many different herbs,
their growth cycles, their uses and folklore.
Henriette’s Herbal Homepage
(http://sunsite.unc.edu/herbmed/ )
Provides an archive to medicinal herblists, culinary
herblists, and various links to other herb web sites.
Herbal Encyclopedia
(http://www.wic.net/waltzark/herbenc.htm )
Provides information on the uses and properties of healing
herbs. Additional information is given on how to gather and store
herbs properly.
Herbal Information
Center (http://www.kcweb.com/herb/herbmain.htm
)
This site serves as a resource center for information
on herbs, vitamins, and other natural products.
Grey Wing’s
Herbal (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4177/herbal.htm
)
Gives detailed definitions of various herbs, their preparations,
and other various horticultural terms.
Reference Guide
for Herbs (http://www.realtime.net/anr/herbs.html)
A complete reference guide for herbs and their role in
human nutrition.
Herbal Hall (http://www.herb.com/herbal.htm
)
Provides other herb links, chat lines, books, and resources
on herbal medicines. Serves as the main database for medicinal
herbalism.
Silver Sage:
The Outrageous Herb Lady (http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/8300/
)
Gives recipes, herbal histories, articles, health hints,
and an herbal chat line.
Botanical Gardens
(http://www.botanical.com/)
Provides over 800 articles and their searchable texts
of specific cases where alternative medicines surpassed synthetic drugs.
Additions submitted by Laura Luth, Fall, 1998:
TRADITIONAL
CHINESE MEDICINE AND THE MIND-BODY
(http://www.herbalalternatives.com/tcm.html)
This discusses various ailments and the easter explanation for them,
including blockage of the flow of Qi.
HERBAL TRADITIONS
FORMULAS (http://www.herbaltraditions.com/formulas.html)
This gives a list of Chinese herbs and what they are used for, what
they improve.
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