Websites on ethnobotany and plantsCentre 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/ Back to top 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/ Back to top 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/ Back to top 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/ Back to top 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 Back to top 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 Back to top 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 Back to top 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 Back to top 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/ Back to top 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/ Back to top 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 Back to top 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.
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