When I first started learning about herbs, I didn’t have much money. I couldn’t afford books or courses, so I benefited from herbalists’ write-ups and blogs. I learned a lot from these sources, and they were instrumental in my beginning journey to learning about herbs.
I’ve compiled this list of sites with quality information on herbs and how to use them. They are from trusted sources. I hope to inspire you to learn more about herbs and how they benefit your health.
WEBSITES WITH HERBAL MONOGRAPHS:
Please note that I occasionally will check this list to see if links are still working. If you run across links that don’t work anymore please feel free to let me by leaving a comment below.
World Herbal Library | Herbal Education, Herbal Schools & Herbalism Resources – Christopher Hobbs – No monographs but Wow what a wealth of information. Old books, audiobooks, blog.
WHO Monographs – This is a wealth of information, from description and safety to major chemical constituents. There are four volumes to look at. A PDF of each is also available for download. (I can’t find the other volumes anymore) But here are some other downloads they have available. Who Guidelines for Assessing quality of herbal medicines with reference to contaminants and residues, Key technical issues of herbal medicines with reference to interaction with other medicines, Research guidelines for evaluating the safety and efficacy of herbal medicines
David Hoffman – healthy.net: 100 + monographs
Medicinal Herbs – Christopher Hobbs
Sharol Tilgner: 100+ Short Materia Medica but useful
Michael Moore’s Materia Medica located on this page + much more information!
The Naturopathic Herbalist: short excerpts of many herbs!
Richard Whelan: Medical Herbalist Herbs from A-Z: has around 200 herb monographs. Well-formed.
Eric Yarnell: Bot med Rocks: doesn’t have a lot but they are very detailed
American Botanical Council: Herbs marked with an * are not free. Some things are free, a lot are not. You’ll need to register for an account also. German E Commission Monographs (click on each link) Expanded Commission E Monographs,
Tillotson Institute of Natural Health: 100 herbal monographs.
Althea Provence – Christophe Bernard-Herbaliste: 57 Herb Monographs. These are wonderful detailed monographs. You will need to translate the pages though.
Herbal Legacy – Dr. Christopher’s: Theses from the graduates of the School of Natural Healing.
Jim McDonald’s Herbcraft: 20+ herbs and many, many other articles (he used to have links to other herbalists but he’s revamping website check back later at above link)
Henriette’s Herbal: There is tons of information on herbs here just do a search. Lots of photo’s also.
Herb Rally Monographs: 40+ monographs written by various herbalist’s. They also have a great podcast that you can listen to these monographs.
Todd Caldecott: 35+ Herbs. Must be a subscriber to see content. Free to subscribe. A lot of his herbs are used in Ayureveda.
Herbs with Rosalee de la Foret: She periodically adds more.
Commonwealth Center For Holistic Herbalism: with Ren & Katja Blog format with lots of monographs and other articles – just do a search
Lesley Tiera’s Blog: Not necessarily monographs but has articles on specific herbs. – Can also do a search
Michael Tiera’s Blog: Also has some articles on specific herbs. – can do a search
Health Canada: 100+ herb monographs
Medicinal Plants of Texans: 50+ monographs written by students of wildflowerherbschool.
Mother Earth Living – Herbal Living: They have bunch of herbal monographs. *Link moved will have to find again
HerbIdea.com: Monographs by Lisa Moseby
Healinghouseherbal.com: Monographs by Petra Sovcov (you’ll need to do a search to find)
California School of Hispanic Herbalism: Over 25 monographs do a search
Healing Weeds: 50 + monographs.
Whispering Earth Materia Medica: 25+ Monographs
Wild Man Steve Brill: 25+ plants. Great photo’s and ways to eat them.
The Northwest School for botanical studies: Herbs at a glance
Eatweeds.co.uk: 18 herb monographs.
Medical Herbalism Materia Medica & Pharmacy: Mostly articles or studies on herbs not necessarily full monographs.
Blessed Maine Herb Farm: little bits of info on about 20 herbs
The Wild Pharma: blog style – just do a search
Wisdomoftheplantdevas: Blog style – just do a search
Wintergreenbotanicals.com Maria Noel Groves: Couple Monographs. Here’s a couple “virtual herb walks”
Sagedfibers.com: There are only 5 monographs here but they are very detailed monographs.
Herbwisdom.com: Has a little bit of info on around 200 herbs. I don’t know that those putting this website out there though are practicing herbalist. Might just be bloggers.
Bachcentre.com – Bach Flower Essences
AHPA: BOTANICAL CATEGORY LISTING: You can get photos and other tid bits of info from these listings especially for identifying.
Herbnet.com – Small snippet of Medicinal Uses of Herbs
Erica Larsen – Mongraphs under writings with resource links also
OLDER WRITTINGS:
A Modern Herbal by Maude Grieve: Relied on by many and used for many years, especially by those teaching today.
The Dispensatory of the United States of America Twentieth Edition (1918) pdf.
William Cook’s Physio-Medical Dispensatory: pdf
The Canon of Medicine translation into English – coveers Four Humors and Unani Tib
Nicholas Cupeper’s Complete Herbal
King’s American Dispensatory, 1898 – Felter, Lloyd
AILMENTS:
American Herbalist Guild: I’d be remiss to not mention the many free public webinars put on by the Guild. They are great and you can learn quite a bit. (They are members only now for the archives but I leave this here so you can catch them when they come out)
Christopher Hobbs Ailments Database: 50+ articles
27 more articles by Christopher Hobbs
Steven Horne: Tree of Light – Excellence in Herbal Education: Many great articles just do a search
Jim McDonald’s Herbcraft: 20+ herbs and many, many other articles
Herbaltransitions.com: Herbal Resources by Dr. Tilgner
Richard Whelan’s Conditions Treated A-Z : 200 + articles
MedHerb.com: Therapeutics Article Index
Eric Yarnell – Bot Med Rocks: not your typical ailments but lots of great articles
Todd Caldecott: 45+ articles. You’ll need to register first.
Brigitte Mars Articles: 80+ Articles
Commonwealth Center For Holistic Herbalism: with Ren & Katja Blog format with lots of monographs and other articles
Altheaprovence.com: 50+ Articles You will need to translate the page.
7Song & the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine: Useful articles on Body systems and 1st aid and more.
Kiva Rose’s Website 20+ herbs and other articles
Lesley Tiera’s Blog: – Can also do a search
Michael Tiera’s Blog: – can do a search
Susun Weed: Has many articles listed, some in order to read the full article you would need to be a student.
Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalsim class handouts, articles, lecture notes
Wintergreenbotanicals.com: Maria Noel Groves class notes and videos
Matthew Wood: some selections from Earthwise Herbal
Chanchal Cabrera: couple of articles
HerbWisdom.com: looks like just a bloggers info not necessarily an herbalist, not sure of this resource.
Healthy. Net – David Hoffmann: 80+ articles – not working let me know if you find his articles…
Medical Journals.
Dr. Dukes: Database: Phytochemical and ethnonotancial database
Advanced Herbal Medicine: Open source international Journal Will need to register.
PubMed: Abstracts and some articles are free.
Britannica: Historical references to herbal applications.
European Medicines Agency: Type in the Latin Name in the Keyword search. Excellent resource from European regulatory agency. Final and draft documentation: assessment reports and monographs. Assessment reports in particular are very beneficial.
HERBALIST’S ON YOU TUBE:
SUBSCRIBE AND LEARN.
HerbTV: Huge supply of herb walks, Herbalist Interviews and more.
Steven Horne: A wealth of videos, and mini courses. Some webinars to kick start some of his courses.
East West Herb School: Of particular interest is the Pulse and Tongue Diagnose videos.
The Human Path – Sam Coffman: Survival School videos and more. Fun and informative
Mountain Rose Herbs: Has numerous how-to videos.
Christopher Hobbs: 10 lectures
Jim McDonald: Couple of herb walks with Jim, they are always fun to watch.
7Song: couple of herb walks with 7Song
DRUG INTERACTIONS:
Healthnotes: You’ll need to click on herb then it will have a tab to click on for interactions.
Canada Database: for adverse reactions
European Adverse Drug Reaction Reports
Drugs.com: can check herbs/drug interactions: just add drug and herbs to the lists.
ITMonline.org: list of some possible drug/herb interactions
NUTRITIONAL INFO:
NUTRITRION & YOU.COM: Some herb nutritional facts
Michael Moore’s stuff
FREE RESOURES RECOMMEND BY Micahe Moore + his articles
Michael Moore’s School material now free
Master Genus Index integrating ALL plant photographs, illustrations, maps, abstracts, constituents, monographs, major papers and folios by genus and species.
FREE BOOKS:
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This is information I have compiled with my time. Feel free to share this source with this original post. Please do not just copy and share in your own format. – Thanks Mindy
