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All the . . . Herbal . . . Tea in China

If you're interested in tea, this is a most interesting article on HealthWorld.

American Botanical Council

November 1988 as a nonprofit education organization to educate the public about beneficial herbs and plants and to promote the safe and effective use of medicinal plants.

American Indian Ethnobotany Database

This part of the University of Michigan website has an extensive database of "foods, drugs, dyes, and fibers" of Native North American Peoples (there are more than 47,000 items).

Boosting Immunity With Herbs

Rob McCaleb is president of the Herb Research Foundation and in this article describes how the immune system works and discusses two of the best researched immune boosters available in natural food stores, astragalus and echinacea.

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

This service of the Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, allows you to search a wide variety of plant, chemical, activity, ethnobotany databases.

Ethnobotany of the Healing Herbs of Native North American Peoples

This website was recommended by a reader who noticed that the reference to the information from the University of Michigan, above, wasn't working. I've since changed their address, but this also seems to have good information.

Herb Research Foundation

The nonprofit Herb Research Foundation is dedicated to responsible informed self-care with medicinal plants.

MPNADB—Medical Plants of Native America

Play with this database, which was built over a period of about 10 years with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the University of Michigan-Dearborn. It contains over 17,000 items representing the medicinal uses of 2,147 species from 760 genera and 142 families by 123 different native American groups.

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