~ Early Web Links ~

Queering Herbalism is a blog by a queer person of color exploring herbalism, plant medicine, and healing through a justice-centered lens. It features posts about the BIPOC Herbal Freedom School and Communiversity, a scholarship-supported program helping chronically ill and low-income medicine makers of color reclaim indigenous healing traditions.

PawPawResearch.com compiles research by botanist Dr. Jerry McLaughlin on the paw paw plant and its powerful acetogenins, with a focus on their potential to fight cancer cells and drug-resistant tumors. Visitors will find articles, studies, video presentations, and FAQs covering everything from how paw paw works at a cellular level to comparisons with graviola and other alternative treatments.

Judson Carroll, a master herbalist, shares detailed knowledge of Southern Appalachian wild plants, foraging, and herbal medicine through this long-running blog. Posts cover edible and medicinal plants of the American Southeast, with ties to his many published books on topics ranging from survival herbalism to Christian herbal medicine traditions.

Tony Crisp's Dreamhawk is a sprawling resource devoted to dream interpretation, yoga, body-mind healing, and inner life exploration, built around a comprehensive A-Z dream dictionary and encyclopedia. Visitors can browse hundreds of dream symbol entries, read articles on health and relationships, explore I Ching and meditation, and access Tony's published books on topics ranging from pregnancy to spiritual growth.

A mirror of the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, founded by the late herbalist Michael Moore, this site is a massive archive of medicinal plant knowledge including photographs, illustrations, materia medica, herb manuals, folios, and digitized historical texts like the complete US Dispensatory 20th Edition. Visitors will find an extraordinary depth of botanical reference material spanning decades of Moore's teaching, with genus-indexed plant photos, video clips, color illustrations, and extensive lecture notes on clinical and constitutional herbalism.

The North American Institute of Medical Herbalism runs this comprehensive resource hub for herbalism students and practitioners, offering annotated links spanning materia medica, ethnobotany, pharmacology, pathology, and clinical nutrition. It also features audio courses, a free e-journal archive, and certification programs in medical herbalism, making it a serious educational destination for anyone studying plant-based medicine.

Annie's Remedy is a comprehensive herbal reference featuring over 400 medicinal herb profiles with photographs, descriptions, folklore, and guidance on traditional uses for conditions ranging from arthritis to anxiety. The site organizes herbs alphabetically, by botanical name, and by therapeutic properties, making it a thorough starting point for anyone exploring natural and herbal healing.

A curated directory of professional associations and organizations in holistic and naturopathic medicine, hosted by a clinic in Evergreen, Colorado. Visitors will find links to bodies like the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, homeopathy centers, chiropractic associations, and environmental medicine groups across North America and Europe.

Henriette Kress, a herbalist based in Helsinki, Finland, has maintained this comprehensive herbal medicine resource since 1995, making it one of the oldest and largest of its kind on the web. The blog section covers individual herbs like St. John's wort, lemon balm, and chamomile with detailed herb cards, alongside multilingual content in English, Swedish, Finnish, and Japanese.

The Herb Research Foundation's curated links page points visitors to some of the web's most reputable herbal medicine resources, from botanical databases to professional herbalist guilds. Compiled around 2000, this collection covers everything from medicinal plant monographs and Dr. Duke's phytochemical database to Michael Moore's extensive Southwest School of Botanical Medicine materials.