INTERESTING PEOPLE AND INTERESTING LINKS
Michael Moore is sometimes referred to as the godfather of
American herbalism, and he brought back into clinical use many
North American herbs that were all but forgotten. His site is full
of pictures, rare texts, and information on how to use (and not
use) plants. He is offering a distance learning program that
promises to be great, has written numerous books as well as
several symphonies (one of which can be accessed through his
website.) http://www.swsbm.com/homepage/.
Dr. Eric Yarnell, ND has many irons in the fire, and manages
them all well. He specializes in gastroenterology, urology and
men's health at his Seattle office (http://dryarnell.com/). He is
one of the owners of Heron Botanicals, a small company that
offers a wide selection of tinctures, including low dose herbs, to
professional practitioners.
(http://heronbotanicals.com/index.html) He has written many
texts that discuss how to treat from a naturopathic perspective
but also discuss allopathic treatments. His text on
phytochemistry is, in my opinion, the best text available on the
topic. All of his books can be purchased through
http://healingmountainpublishing.com. He maintains a site that
lists seminars in herbal medicine, including our annual Intensive
Seminar in Botanical Medicine in Maryland.
(http://herbalseminars.com/). Next year's seminar will be held
September 14-17, 2007.
Dr. James A. Duke is a botanist/ethnobotanist. He has written
many, many books including The Green Pharmacy. He
teaches at Tai Sophia and co-teaches our Intensive Seminar in
Botanical Medicine which is held in part at his Green Farmacy
Garden. He plays the guitar and always takes the time to sing
a few songs to the group. He also leads tours to the Amazon. I
went on one, and it was an amazing experience. Jim also
maintains a wonderful plant database that can be searched for
both chemical constituents and activities of medicinal plants.
Dr. Duke's phytochemical and ethnobotanical database. His
wife Peggy is a botanical illustrator.
Holly Shull Vogel is my sister. She took some of the pictures on
the main page. She has a masters in plant pathology and is
passionate about growing plants, mushrooms, and
Endomycorrhizae. She is director of the Green Farmacy
Garden where she has worked for six years with Dr. Duke. She
even managed to get Anemopsis californica (yerba mansa) to
thrive in the acidic Maryland soil. She has great organizational
skills and manages the Intensive Seminar in Botanical Medicine.
This coming year, we hope to entice her to teach cultivation of
medicinal plants at the seminar. This is a picture of her in the
Green Farmacy Garden.
Henriette Kress is a Finnish herbalist, a professional member of
the AHG, has a masters in science and speaks Finnish,
Swedish, German, and English fluently. We both studied with
Michael in Bisbee back in 1998, and traveled together on some
of the field trips. She has a phenomenal memory for jokes, a
great herbal blog, and her website is a wonder:
http://henriettesherbal.com/index.html
Mark Blumenthal is the Founder and Executive Director of the
American Botanical Counil (ABC), an independent, nonprofit
dedicated to providing reliable and responsible information
about botanicals. He is the senior editor of The Complete
German Commission E Monographs and the ABC Clinical
Guide to Herbs, two references I use often. I got to know Mark
on a trip to the Amazon. He has a phenomenal sense of humor
and memory for names, is a vegan, and tries hard to tread
lightly on the planet. He is the editor of HerbalGram a quarterly
journal provided to those who join ABC, which everyone should:
Join ABC
Manuel Abascal is my ex-husband and good friend. We fought
incessantly back when we practiced law together and edited
each others legal briefs. He helped edit Herbs & Influenza, and
did not even flinch when I rejected some of his better
suggestions. He still practices some law, is a certified Jin Shin
Jyitsu practitioner but is primarily a very talented sculptor. He is
working on his website. In the mean time, you can see some of
his sculptures at John McEvoy Fine Art Gallery 680 8th St., San
Francisco, CA or click here.
David Winston is an herbalist trained in Cherokee, Chinese, and
Western herbal traditions. He has written a number of books and
is working on a material medical. He teaches botanical medicine,
and maintains a fabulous website. I found some of the information
I used in Herbs & Influenza in the research library on his site:
http://herbaltherapeutics.net/
Lisa Ganora is a traditional herbalist and a "chemistry geek." Her
website is filled with fabulous pictures and information about
photochemistry. She teaches an intensive in photochemistry. I
organized an intensive in Seattle a while back just so that I could
take the class. It was great.
(http://www.herbalchem.net/LisaGanora.htm)
Sources for cultivated and wild crafted medicinal plants:
Other resources:
Many interesting journals now offer full text articles free online. These sites list many of those
journals http://www.doaj.org/ http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/ This site lists journals
that cover plants: http://www.e-journals.org/botany/
The pathology guy covers pathology in great detail. His site is crowded with all kinds of stuff
but if you scroll down to the index, you will find some fascinating material. He, for instance,
describes in detail why the olive oil gallbladder flush does not flush out gallstones.
My blog on herbs, herbal medicine, and things related: Blog
A glossary of archaic medical terms, diseases, and causes of death can be very useful when
you are reading old Eclectic texts http://antiquusmorbus.com.
To locate an herbalist and for information on herbal educational programs and texts, contact
the American Herbalists Guild
Simply beautiful:
Mushrooms are strange and gorgeous, and Taylor Lockwood is amazing at capturing their
many manifestations. Mushroom people are generally a friendly, strange, and zany crowd.
A great place to meet them is at the Annual Breitenbush Mushroom Gathering.
I really like David Blevins' plant photographs and would have loved to use some of them in
my book.
Clouds are also strange and gorgeous, and there is a Cloud Appreciation Society dedicated
to them.
