Herbal Treats

"I hope that's Valerian I smell!"

Michael Roland Shaw Moore January 9, 1941 - February 20, 2009 Husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, friend, teacher, musician, herbalist.

The Columbines School of Botanical Studies' Complete 2009 Academic Calendar lists all the classes we offer.

The Columbines School of Botanical Studies' 25th annual 2009 Herbal Apprenticeship Program, our six month intensive. Our 2008 Apprenticeship Field Program is already full, and we are accepting interviews for the 2009 Field Program. Click here for an Apprenticeship Interview Request Form.

Plant Lists of the Pacific Northwest: These plant lists, field trip highlights, and lecture topics were generated by the Columbines School of Botanical Studies 2008 Apprenticeship Program in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and the surrounding areas. New material will be added regularly. Read and enjoy as the season unfolds. (5/8/08)

On July 25 - 26, 2009, you'll find me leading plant walks at the NW Herbfest in Pleasant Hill, Oregon. Dr. Sharol Tilgner's excellent herb conference lets you meet the teachers and hear them speak at an affordable price. Hope to see you there!

I will not be teaching physiology and wildcrafting ethics this year at the South West School of Botanical Medicine because it has closed its Residency Program. Check out Michael Moore's Distance Learning Program which includes my Physiology Class as it is taught at that school.

Wildcrafting is stewardship. This means we need to take care of the land and our plant populations. We need to harvest in a way that insures the health of the stand for our children. You should be able to return to this stand year after year. It will teach you many secrets about ecology and population dynamics. It is not a one night stand.

Wildcrafting for Beginners: This article was written in the spring of 1995 for a local free magazine on healing arts called Healing Currents. I've made slight modifications and a few links to other pages, but all in all you will have to imagine yourself spending an endless winter under the constant grey clouds and wet drizzle of the Pacific Northwest in the USA. Finally the long, slow, green spring that makes all the rain worthwhile arrives. (link fixed 3/08)

Wildcrafting Ethics and thoughts about rare, threatened and endangered plants.

Plant Lists of the Pacific Northwest: These plant lists, field trip highlights, and lecture topics were generated by the Columbines School of Botanical Studies 2008 Apprenticeship Program in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and the surrounding areas. New material will be added regularly. Read and enjoy as the season unfolds. (5/8/08)

Andrew Pengelly's been out in the field with some students from Sydney. They've prepared a preliminary plant list from the Kayuga Field School Weekend in the Hunter Valley of Eastern Australia.

What plants are federally protected in the United States? Check the Endangered Species Homepage at the US Fish and Wildlife server for the complete federal listings.

Close to home, your own state may have locally protected plants. When traveling around and harvesting, you may not realize that the Lomatium you see only grows in a thirty mile circle around you. Better browse through the Natural Heritage Program for the local listings.

Want to harvest some Queen Anne's Lace? Check out the differences between Daucus carota and Poison Hemlock, Conium maculatum , in a warning about harvesting umbelliferaes.

A Wild Winter: Some thoughts about the floods of the winter of 1995/96, and its impact on low elevation creeks.

Another Wild Winter: More thoughts about flooding, from the floods of the winter of 1996/97, and its impact on seed dispersal.

No, it isn't Osha, but a close relative with similar uses, and it's discussed in detail on the Ligusticum grayi Page. This page has been reformatted, all the links fixed, and new picture links added. This was the article of the month for over a year on Herbal Hall, and is still one of my favorite pages. Don't miss the fun, check it out!

Research results from field studies on a rare Pacific Northwest Mugwort, Artemisia ludoviciana ssp. estesii, that raises both evolutionary and conservation issues. This article was published in the 1996 issue of the Kalmiopsis , the Journal of the Native Plant Society of Oregon.

If you are concerned about Hypericum toxicity, check out the unabridged version of St. John's Wort and Phototoxicity from the Herb List.

Read some ethnocentric class notes for Arnica mollis.

The large and informative Medicinal Herb FAQ is a collection of some of the best information from cyberspace's herbal mailing lists and newsgroups. Maintained by cyberspace's Herbal Archivist, Henriette Kress.

I thought you wanted to learn more about Mugwort, Artemisia douglasiana , or was I just dreaming? You can even compare this with Christopher Hedley's notes on Artemisia.

Is the new Bio-energized Manchurian Enzymated Blue Green Algae suspended in a base of Tea Tree Essiac solution what you need this season? Or just some Violet syrup? Perhaps the post on Bioregionalism and Fad Herbs will help to enlighten you. New material as published in the 1996 Summer Solstice issue of Talking Leaves .

A Cough Syrup recipe from deep in the dusty throat of this wandering wildcrafter. Saved from obscurity in the herb list archives by none other than Henriette.

Bacterial Infections Berberis Has Known and Loved.

Concerned about the fire in your mouth? Here's a short one on herbs for toothaches .

Can't Get You Out of my Head, originally published in Healing Currents, is about dissolving partnerships, otherwise known as breaking-up with your sweetie.

If you cut your finger installing that new modem, perhaps Yarrow, Achillea millefolium, will interest you.

The Flora of North America North of Mexico is online! It's only partially completed, so you may not find what you're looking for. However, if you do, you may be furnished with taxonomic keys, pictures, descriptions, and maps, all in the "new" accepted latin names. Use the search page.

WWW Sites of Interest to Botanists has all the botany and herbal links. Ideal bookmark material. One of my favorite botanical pages from this site is What is New in Botany.

One of my favorite plants now has its own homepage, The Pedicularis Homepage. This site primarily contains pictures of our irregular friends.

Skullcap is on the web at The Scutellaria Group Homepage. This is an excellent quality site that contains pictures, descriptions, germination procedures, seed exchange, and links to further botanical and medicinal information.

Rather than fill the page with a zillion links, I've listed a few useful ones. These will take you everywhere. Wait, this section is growing. Who knows, perhaps it will become a zillion links.

Algy's Herbal Page will connect you to medicinal, culinary, commercial, and garden herbal links. A large site of links.

The American Herbalists Guild Homepage.

Michael Tierra's Planet Herbs Homepage is on the web. This site is filling with original Michael material.

Herbnet has a large list of herb related schools and courses, and other interesting information.

It's the one and only original Herbal Hall.

Herb Research News is another herbal link worth looking at.

Henriette Kress's Home Page Herbal fun from the keeper of the medicinal and culinary FAQ's.

Paul Bergner's Medical Herbalism Homepage contains issues of the USA's own journal for clinical herbalism. Together with the Medherb.com links page which includes links to online journals and databases, Paul has put together one top-notch site.

Robyn Klein has her information on the web. Check out her list at Robyn's Recommended Reading.

SW School of Botanical Medicine/Michael Moore Home Page contains current class information, a library of medicinal herb downloads, and a mega-archive of medicinal plant pictures. This is one of the best herbal sites on the internet.

Sunsite Archives an extensive alternative medicine library.

Don't be embarrassed by asking easily answered stupid questions on your herbal forum. Just search the databases, and impress friends at parties with your herbal knowledge.

American Indian Ethnobotany Database

Rhizome? Corm? Tried to scape but couldn't leaf because you were naked below? Look in the Botanical Glossaries from the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research and the Australia National Botanic Gardens.

Free medline access on the net from the National Library of Medicine. Find out what happens when you place one isolated chemical from your favorite herb in a petri dish with microsomal liver tissue from mice!

Can't figure out that herbal, medical, or anatomical term? Search Michael Moore's Medical/Herbal Glossary from his home page.

Grieve's Modern Herbal is now available on the net. You can even search these volumes for a specific herb or action.

Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Michael Moore's Teaching Manuals: Before you write me asking where to find information on Oplopanax or some other herb on the net, try here first. Much of this information is for the learned who understand multisyllabic medical words ending in -itis.

Here in the United States of America, the legality of practicing herbalism is a poorly defined grey area. Protect yourself, or at least entertain yourself, with the following links.

Herbalists Charter of Henry the VIII. Under the General Laws of the Colonies taken over by the U.S.A., these rights are still in force in the original thirteen states, and have never been repealed.

Herbalist's Code of Ethics from the American Herbalists Guild. (3/08)

Checklist for protecting your rights as an herbalist from the Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute.

Defending your rights as an herbalist from the Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute.

Why re-invent the wheel to list the herbal newsgroups when Henriette has done it so well already? Check these out from the Medicinal Herb FAQ:

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