Natural and Complementary Medicine

The Alternative Medicine Foundation strives to provide health consumers and healthcare providers with reliable, evidence-based information on the integration of CAM therapies with traditional medicine. Three of its major projects are HerbMed, TibetMed (a Web site devoted to exploring Tibetan medicine), and a collection of resource guides.

ABC is an independent, nonprofit research and education organization dedicated to providing accurate and reliable information for consumers, healthcare practitioners, researchers, educators, industry and the media. ABC publishes HerbalGram and HerbMedPro

AHG is a non-profit, educational organization to represent the goals and voices of herbalists specializing in the medicinal use of plants

National Herbalists Association of Australia is the oldest natural therapies association in Australia, and the only national professional body of medical herbalists

The National Institute of Medical Herbalists is the UK's leading professional body representing herbal practitioners.

Hoffman's materia medica is available through Healthy.net.

Leading American herbalist, Winston's site contains the Herbal Therapeutics Research Library - a collection of titles on medical botany, ethnobotany, Eclectic, Thomsonian, & herbal medicine, as well as holdings on the history of medicine, Chinese medicine, ayurveda, and phytochemistry.

Planetary Herbology brings together three great systems of herbal healing - Western Herbal Medicine (WHM);
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Ayurvedic Medicine.

One of the oldest and largest herbal information sites on the web. This site contains classic herbal works, including major works like King's American Dispensatory, Felter's Eclectic Materia Medica, Ellingwood's American Materia Medica and an extensive image gallery.

A very useful evidence-based compilation of references and links on the data underlying the use of herbs for health.

Himalaya uses the tools of modern science to create pharmaceutical-grade ayurvedic products. The company has pioneered research that has converted Ayurveda’s herbal tradition into a complete range of proprietary formulations dedicated to healthy living and longevity.

Michigan based herbalist, McDonald's site contains materia medica and master herbal article index.

Paul Bergner's website includes full text of Medical Herbalism, the quarterly journal of herbal medicine, and providers of classroom, clinical and distance learning education in medical herbalism.

Herbal websites compiled by Michael Moore, Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, Arizona. Wonderful resource with full text versions of classic herbals, including Eclectic, Thomasonian medicine, ethnobotany and traditional use, herbology and pharmacy.

Buhner is the author of Sacred Plant Medicine

Wood is an active practitioner of traditional Western herbalism. He practices from a 'vitalist' perspective and has published many wonderful herbal texts including: Seven Herbs, Plants as Teachers; and Vitalism, The History of Herbalism, Homeopathy, and Flower Essences