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Alternative Medicine
Includes information on aromatherapy, chiropractic medicine, herbal medicine, macrobiotics and other treatments from NOAH New York Online Access to Health. Some fact sheets in Spanish

Alternative Medicine Homepage
This page is a jumpstation for sources of information on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative, complementary, innovative, integrative therapies.

MedWeb: Alternative Medicine
A guide to resources from Emory University Health Sciences Center Library.

Yahoo:Health:Alternative Medicine
A hierarchial hotlist for the World Wide Web.

Resources

Alternative Health News Online
"News and information that will keep you up-to-date on the latest happenings in this rapidly growing field". Searches the Internet to try to find some of the most informative and credible sites. "However, we wish that some sites would have carried more scientific evidence." There are also conventional health sites to provide a integrative approach.

HealthWorld Online is a collection of easily accessible, integrated information on conventional, natural and alternative health .Includes advertising and sells some products.

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
Regular columns on different aspects of alternative health care: homeopathy, nutrition, exercise, women's health, phytomedicines and the constantly changing politics of alternative medicine. Reviews of current alternative medical literature and newly published books relating to health and healing are also included, as well as an extensive Letters-to-the-Editor section, calendar of events and health-related classified advertising.

Specialties

Acupuncture

Acupuncture.com: acupuncture, herbology, Chinese Therapies, and comparison of western and eastern medicine, maintained by Al Stone.

Herbal

Online editions of the following books by herbalist Micheal Moore

HERBAL MATERIA MEDICA, 5th Edition (1995)
A brief outline of 400+ botanical medicines, giving preparation methods, strengths, media, and common adult dosages

HERBAL TINCTURES in CLINICAL PRACTICE, 3nd Edition (1995)
A concise manual for the health care professional, giving symptom pictures, dosages, side effects contraindications for 166 botanicals best used as tinctures. Preparations follow Herbal Materia Medica.

AN HERBAL/MEDICAL DICTIONARY (1995)
A glossary of terms used in herbalism, medicine and physiology; descriptions, explanations and implications for involved wholistic and vitalist therapy, and a dictionary for terms used in the other manuals.

HERBAL/MEDICAL CONTRAINDICATIONS (1995)
Synergistic and Iatrogenic Potentials when some herbs are used concurrent with Medical Treatment or Medical Health Care

SPECIFIC INDICATIONS 2nd Edition (1997)
Over 400 herbs, formulas and essential oils, with their specific clinical indications in Botanical Medicine.

NOTE: these are text & PDF files_the Folios are only PDF files

Herbs.org
Herbal solutions for health, well-being and the environment. Herb headlines, research, regulatory issues and our professional opinions."

Medherb
Links for Herbal Medicine, Medical Herbalism: A Clinical Journal for the Herbal Practitioner.

Holistic

Holistic Med
Holistic healing and alternative medicine documentation, articles on nutrition, yoga, breathwork, toxic consumer products and many other subjects. 1000+ links to other holistic healing sites, conference and retreat listings, case histories of healings & transformation, important news items, holistic mailing list and USENET groups listings, practitioner directories, and much more!

Naturopathic

Meditopia
Comprehensive site for Oriental Medicine, arranged by disease.

Naturopathic Medicine Network
Guide to natural medicine and alternative health care, contains newsletter, naturopathic physicians directory, natural pharmacy.