| Georgetown University Medical Center |
Department of Physiology and Biophysics >> Complementary and Alternative Medicine |
| URBAN HERBS: Medicinal Plants at Georgetown University | |
Plant IdentificationNewcomb L. Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1977. Elias TS, Dykeman PA. Field Guide to North American Edible Wild Plants. Outdoor Life Books, New York, 1982. Foster S, Duke JA. Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1990.
History and Ethnobotany Balick MJ, Cox PA. Plants, people and culture: the science of ethnobotany. New York: Scientific American Library, a division of HPHLP), 1996. Erichsen-Brown C. Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants: A Historical Survey with Special Reference to the Eastern Indian Tribes. Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1979 Grieve M. A modern herbal. Tiger Books Intl, London 1998 (first published in 1931 by Jonathan Cape Ltd): 176-178. Griggs B. Green Pharmacy: the history and evolution of Western herbal medicine. Healing Arts Press, Rochester VT, 1991. Le Strange, R. A History of Herbal Plants. Arco Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1977. Lewis WH, Elvin-Lewis MPF. Medical Botany: Plants Affecting Man’s Health. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1977.
Books for CliniciansBisset NG, Wichtl M. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. Medpharm GmbH Scientific Publishers, Stuttgart/CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1994. Blumenthal M (ed.). The ABC Clinical Guide to Herbs. Austin TX: American Botanical Council, 2003. Bratman S, Girman AM. Handbook of Herbs and Supplements and their Therapeutic Uses. Mosby, St. Louis, 2003. Duke JA. Handbook of Medicinal Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2001. Foster S, Tyler VE. Tyler’s Honest Herbal, 4th Ed. Haworth Herbal Press New York, 1999. Fugh-Berman A. The 5-Minute Herb and Dietary Supplement Consult. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2003. McGuffin M, Hobbs C, Upton R, Goldberg A (eds.). American Herbal Products Association’s Botanical Safety Handbook. Boca Raton, CRC Press, 1997. McKenna DJ, Jones K, Hughes K. Botanical medicine: the desk reference for major herbal supplements, 2nd Ed. Haworth Press, Binghamton NY, 2002. Mills S, Bone K. Principles and practice of phytotherapy: modern herbal medicine. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, 2000. Rotblatt M, Ziment I. Evidence-based herbal medicine. Hanley & Belfus, Philadelphia, 2002.
Pharmacognosy/PharmacologyBruneton J. Pharmacognosy: Phytochemistry medicinal plants, 2nd Ed. Intercept, Hampshire U.K.,1999:86. Dewick PM. Medicinal natural products:a biosynthetic approach. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1997. Evans WC. Trease and Evans Pharmacognosy, 14th Ed. WB Saunders Company Ltd, London, 1996. Huang KC. The pharmacology of Chinese herbs, 2nd ed. CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1999. Robbers JE, Speedie MK, Tyler VE. Pharmacognosy and Pharmacobiotechnology. Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, 1996.
Other ResourcesAmerican Botanical Council; P.O. Box 144345; Austin,
TX 78714-4345; (800) 373-7105 American Herbal Pharmacopoeia Herb Research Foundation HerbMed Jim Duke’s Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM, National Institutes of Health) Office of Dietary Supplements Research Council for Complementary Medicine, UK Rosenthal Center for Complementary Medicine at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons |