Herbal References

2025 Sep 3rd

Online References

We recommend checking out at least one of our favorite online references. These are online resources that we've used for years, and find quite valuable to say the least. Click the image or their link to go to that website.

	Botanical.com contains a searchable, and well respected herbal by Mrs. M. Grieve - originally published in the golden age of eclectic herbalism. Published online in 1995.
	The American Botanical Council is a non-profit organization at the forefront of herbal teaching, lobying, and research. Check out their website for comprehensive herbal monographs and related botanical safety information. HerbalGram: Journal from ABC - with a long history of excellent, in depth articles. Herb List: Resources all about many herbs from a scientific basis. HerbMedPro : A comprehensive herbal database providing access to scientific evidince on herbs.
	The Ontario Herbalists Association is well-known for educating herbalists and publishes several well respected journals.
	AHPA’s mission is to promote the responsible and sustainable commerce of herbal products to ensure that consumers have informed access to a wide variety of safe herbal goods.
	Canadian Organic Trade Association (COTA) is a safe space to gather, connect, educate, inspire, inform, advocate and celebrate organic principles and practices in Canada. COTA hosts the annual Guelph Organic Conference at the University of Guelph.
	OTA's mission is to promote and protect ORGANIC with a unifying voice that serves and engages its diverse members from farm to marketplace.
	the American Spice Trade Association (ASTA) is the leading voice of the U.S. spice industry representing a diverse range of industry -- from spice growers and processors to importers and researchers. Our committment is to deliver insight, fostering collaboration, and working to shape public policy on behalf of the global industry.

Print References

These are some of our favourite books - quick and reliable resources that are relatively easy to understand.

	This botanical compendium provides a wide-ranging history of herbalism and useful guidance for healing with herbs. With this book, Wood creates a vast and sweeping history of herbalism, drawing on Western botanical knowledge, homeopathy, Traditional Chinese medicine, and Native American shamanic botany. Detailing the history and use of more than forty plants. Matthew Wood is the author of quite a few other books that are more focused and scholastic - all are worth reading.
	A perennial favourite with students and practitioners, this is the go-to reference book for 180 medicinal herbs and their actions. Materia Medica of Western Herbs is designed for worldwide use and contains detailed monographs of 180 of the most commonly used medicinal herbs.
	For more than twenty years this pioneering work had served as a bible for herbalists throughout the world. It is an illustrated encyclopedic guide to more than two hundred medicinal plants found in North America, with descriptions of each plant's appearance and uses, and directions for methods of use and dosage. Native American traditions are compared with traditional uses of the same plants among other cultures where the science of herbs has flourished, particularly in Russia and China. Included is an annotated bibliography of pertinent books and periodicals.
	There is a world of health and healing all around you--in your spice rack, your backyard, and on the shelves of health food and grocery stores. This informative guide is a reference you will keep at the ready, connecting 72 of the world's most common and useful medicinal herbs with the body systems they help and heal.
	The first herbal that goes beyond folklore & incorporates the findings of modern science for over 200 of the world's most frequently used herbs.