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Botanicals; Herbalism; Medicinal Herbs |
Dioscorides’ Materia Medica, c. 1334 copy in Arabic, describes medicinal features of cumin and dill. Herbalism, also known as phytotherapy, is folk and traditional medicinal practice based on the use of plants and plant extracts. Finding healing powers in plants is an ancient idea. People in all continents have long used hundreds, if not thousands, of indigenous plants for treatment of various ailments dating back to prehistory. There is evidence that Neanderthals living 60,000 years ...
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Herbal Medicine Organizations
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Cancer Institute http://www.nci.nih.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com
- American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/
- Food and Drug Administration
- American College of Physicians http://www.acponline.org/
- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases http://www.niams.nih.gov/
- Harvard Medical School, InteliHealth
- Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
- March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation http://www.marchofdimes.com/
- National Institute on Aging http://www.nia.nih.gov/
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine http://nccam.nih.gov/
- Arthritis Foundation http://www.arthritis.org/
- American Society of Anesthesiologists http://www.asahq.org/
- National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements
- Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases-National Resource Center
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center http://www.mskcc.org/
- National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region
- National Toxicology Program
- Alternative Medicine Foundation
- Office of Dietary Supplements http://ods.od.nih.gov
- Cleveland Clinic http://www.clevelandclinic.org
- HealthWorld http://www.healthy.net/
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