Jonathan Treasure's Herbal Bookworm site: http://www.teleport.com/~jonno/
- good in-depth reviews of recent books on herbal medicine, a list of good
books, a list of stinkers, as a whole it's a nice setup, with Reality Check
and all
The MediHerb homepage: http://www.peg.apc.org/~mediherb/(you don't know MediHerb? If you are a practitioner you should
go have a look, and then ask for more information at the address provided.
It's -the- quality text provider in Australia, and, I hear, also -the-
quality herb provider in Australia - but only to practitioners.)
Eine deutsche Seite: http://members.aol.com/feenreich/herbs/index.html
(Tehehe - aol in Germany? What a joke. Let's see how long it takes before
America reaches Finland. I knew the yanks have a problem with expanding
their borders, but this is getting out of hand.)
Excite has a tour for medicinal
herbs and one for alternative
medicine (and lots more on health and zillions on other topics) - quality
links, folks (... I'm on both tours)
and another must for the botanically inclined, this time from the United
States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service:
The PLANTS National Database at http://trident.ftc.nrcs.usda.gov/plants/
Now why didn't I find this one earlier? For all Finns: The
Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Finland: http://www.helsinki.fi/kmus/chklst.html
- added 01Mar97
And finally, for tonguewrenching 'mercans (with their gruesome pronounciations),
here's how you should do the latin names: http://www.rt66.com/~telp/latin.htm
(Arctou-steifilous juva-jursai my behind - give me clean Finnish/Swedish/German
pronounciations any day, and an air hostess who understands that I want
coffee the first time I ask for it ...)
You'll find a nice commercial site (growing and selling herb plants)
with quiet charm at http://www.papagenos.com/
- now if all the commercial sites were as tasteful...
Check what Helsinki looks like today (or 10 minutes ago) (if you're
real lucky you get to be the one fiddling the controls) (I live
in the part called Meilahti): http://www.zorro.org/scripts/camera.dll
Ever been to the Oregon Country Fair? If you haven't, you should.
If you have, here's some pics to help you remember the feeling: http://www.efn.org/~ocf/
- thanks for taking me there, Howie.
A page with links to a great many excerpts from Ambrose Bierce's devil's
dictionary (wiiide grin - now when will I have time to read them all?):
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/Bierce/forked.html
- this page is the 'Forked Tongue' but there's links to the 4 different
devil's dictionary files available on this site (they're all big), as well
as the file on Musical Instruments (this is smaller).