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LC Science Tracer Bullet Series
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MEDICINAL PLANTS
  Compiled by Judith Robinson and Constance Carter 
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      Science Reference Section
Science and Technology Division Library of Congress
10 First Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C.  20540-5581
TB 91-8                                        May 1991
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SCOPE: The study of medical botany is taking on new significance as
the world's rain forests are destroyed.  Tropical plants contain an
enormous variety of chemicals of potential benefit to modern medicine.
Major universities, pharmaceutical firms, and government agencies,
including the National Institutes of Health, are greatly expanding
their programs in natural products research in hopes of finding new
medicines for a variety of ills, including cancer, diabetes, and
diseases of the immune system. Teams of plant collectors, chemists,
and ethnobotanists have been dispatched to tropical regions to collect
new species and to study the folklore of medicinal plants from local
healers and those with knowledge of indigenous plants.  

The ethnobotanical information that these individuals can supply helps
narrow the search for plants with known pharmacological activity.
This compilation, an update of two earlier Tracer Bullets (TB 72-19
and TB 81-2), provides references to published materials on plants
containing substances of medicinal value.  Publications issued since
1980, as well as those that librarians and researchers have found
particularly useful in their work over the years, are emphasized.
More attention has been given to the medicinal plants used by Native
Americans and to titles describing plants in different geographical
areas than was done in earlier compilations.  

This Tracer Bullet has been compiled to assist individuals in locating
materials about medicinal plants in the collections of the Library of
Congress and to provide suggestions for further study.  Not intended
to be a comprehensive bibliography, this guide is designed -- as the
name of the series implies -- to put the reader "on target."

BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS
* Available in reference collection, Science Reading Room Guthrie, D.
Plants as remedies: the debt of medicine to botany.  In Botanical
Society of Edinburgh.  Transactions, v. 39, no. 2, 1961: 184-195.
QK1.B4 and Pamphlet box*

Farnsworth, Norman R.  New medicines from plants: the quest to obtain
useful drugs from plants is being renewed, and not a moment too soon.
World & I, v. 3, Sept. 1988: 214221. CB428.W67 and Pamphlet box*

Plotkin, Mark J.  The healing forest: the search for new jungle
plants.  Futurist, v. 24, Jan./Feb. 1990: 9-14.  CB158.F88 and
Pamphlet box*

SUBJECT HEADINGS used by the Library of Congress, under which books on
medicinal plants can be located, include the following:
  MATERIA MEDICA, VEGETABLE (Highly relevant)
  MEDICINAL PLANTS (Highly relevant)
BOTANY, MEDICAL (Relevant)
HERBAL TEAS (Relevant) HERBS--THERAPEUTIC USE (Relevant) 
See also names of specific herbs, plants, substances, etc., e.g., COMFREY,
GARLIC, 
GINSENG, QUININE
  PHARMACOGNOSY (Relevant)
  BOTANICAL DRUG INDUSTRY (Related)
  HALLUCINOGENIC PLANTS (Related)
  HERBAL COSMETICS (Related)
  PSYCHOTROPIC PLANTS (Related)
BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY CONSERVATION (More general) BOTANY, ECONOMIC 
(More general)
  ETHNOBOTANY (More general)
INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA--MEDICINE (More general)
  RAIN FOREST ECOLOGY (More general)
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BASIC TEXTS

Blackwell, Will H.  Poisonous and medicinal plants.  Englewood Cliffs,
N.J., Prentice Hall, c1990.  329 p.  QK100.A1B57 1990* Chapter 5
written by Martha J. Powell.

Buchman, Dian Dincin.  Dian Dincin Buchman's Herbal medicine: the
natural way to get well and stay well.  New York, Gramercy Pub. Co.,
1980, c1979.  310 p.  RS164.B78 1980*
See particularly "Sources for dried botanicals, herb products, oils":
p. 273-279 and "Live plant and seed sources": p. 279-286.

Crellin, J. K., and Jane Philpott.  Herbal medicine past and present.
Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, c1990.  2 v.  RS164.B324C74 1990*
Based in large part on recorded interviews with A. L. Tommie Bass, his
friends, neighbors, and people in his community.
   Bibliography: v. 1, p. 265-323.
Contents: v. 1.  Trying to give ease.--v. 2.  A
  reference guide to medicinal plants.

Der Marderosian, Ara Harold, and Lawrence E.  Liberti. Natural product
medicine: a scientific guide to foods, drugs, cosmetics.
Philadelphia, G. F.  Stickley, c1988. 388 p.  RS160.D47 1988*

Grieve, Maud.  A modern herbal: the medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and
economic properties, cultivation and folk-lore of herbs, grasses,
fungi, shrubs, & trees with all their modern scientific uses.  With an
introd. by the editor, Mrs. C. F.  Leyel.  New York, Dover
Publications, 1971.  2 v.  QK99.A1G72 1971*
   A reprint of the 1931 ed.

Kreig, Margaret B.  Green medicine: the search for plants that heal.
Chicago, Rand McNally, 1964.  462 p.  QK99.K68* Bibliography:
p. 433-446.

Lewis, Hepworth, and Memory P. F. Elvin-Lewis.  Medical botany: plants
affecting man's health.  New York, Wiley, c1977.  515 p.  RS164.L475*
   Bibliography: p. 456-465.

Morton, Julia Frances.  Major medicinal plants: botany, culture, and
uses. Springfield, Ill., Thomas, c1977.  431 p.  QK99.A1M67*
   Bibliography: p. 383-412.

Van der Zee, Barbara.  Green pharmacy: a history of herbal medicine.
New York, Viking Press, 1982, c1981.  379 p.  RM666.H33V36 1982*
   Bibliography: p. 337-347.
===

SPECIALIZED TITLES

Aikman, Lonnelle.  Nature's healing arts: from folk medicine to modern
drugs.  Prepared by the Special Publications Division.  Washington,
National Geographic Society, c1977. 199 p.  RS164.A36

Andoh, Anthony K.  The science and romance of selected herbs used in
medicine and religious ceremony.  San Francisco, North Scale
Institute, c1986.  324 p.  QK99.A1A54 1986
   Bibliography: p. 318-324.

Carse, Mary.  Herbs of the earth: a self-teaching guide to healing
remedies: using common North American plants and trees.  Hinesburg,
Vt., Upper Access Publishers, c1989. 238 p.  RM666.H33C367 1989

Coon, Nelson.  Using plants for healing: an American herbal. 2nd ed.
Emmaus, Pa., Rodale Press, c1979.  272 p.  RS164.C72 1979*
   Bibliography: p. 239-248.

Davies, Jill.  A garden of miracles: herbal drinks for pleasure,
health, and beauty.  New York, Beaufort Books, c1985.  144 p.
RM666.H33D38 1985

Duke, James A.  Medicinal plants of the Bible.  Owerri, N.Y.,
Trado-Medic Books, 1983.  233 p.  QK99.A1D84 1983
   Bibliography: p. 175-178.

Emboden, William A.  Narcotic plants.  Rev. and enl.  New York,
Macmillan, c1979.  206 p.  QK99.A1E5 1979
   Bibliography: p. 195-202.  
Folk medicine: the art and the science.  Edited by Richard P. Steiner.
Washington, American Chemical Society, c1986. 223 p.
 RS164.F64 1986*
 Examines the medical practices of non-Western cultures in order to
establish a scientific basis for the success of various folk remedies.
Includes material on isolating and identifying specific chemical
components of plants as well as providing information on the medicinal
plants of various countries.

Gibbons, Euell.  Stalking the healthful herbs.  Putney, Vt.,
   A. C. Hood, 1989,  c1966.  301 p.   QK99.U6G53 1989
Reprint.  Originally published in New York by D. McKay, 1966.

Hartwell, Jonathan L.  Plants used against cancer: a survey. Lawrence,
Mass., Quarterman Publications, c1982.  710 p. (Bioactive plants,
v. 2) RC271.H47H37 1982

HsA, Hung-yuan, Yu-pan Chen, and Mei-na Hung.  The chemical
constituents of oriental herbs.  Los Angeles, Oriental Healing Arts
Institute, c1982-c1985.  2 v.
  RS164.H838 1982* 
Vol. 1 has cover title: The Chemical Constituents of
   Oriental Herbal Drugs.
Vol. 2 published at Long Beach, Calif.
    Translation of Han Yao Chih Hua HsAeh Ch'eng Fen.

Kelly, Howard Atwood.  Some American medical botanists commemorated in
our botanical nomenclature.  Troy, N.Y., Southworth Co., 1914.  215 p.
QK26.K4
 "Delivered as a lecture before the Medical Historical Society of
Chicago, 1910, and before the University of Nebraska, October 16,
1913."

Magic and medicine of plants.  Pleasantville, N.Y., Reader's Digest
Association, Inc., c1986.  464 p.
     QK99.A1M325 1986* 

New pharmaceuticals derived from plants.  New Haven, Conn., Technology
Management Group, c1988.  1 v.  (various pagings) HD9675.B682N48 1988 
"An assessment of worldwide market opportunities in plant-derived
drugs for cancer, AIDS, heart disease, diabetes, and other
conditions."

Schultes, Richard Evans, and Albert Hofmann.  The botany and chemistry
of hallucinogens.  Rev. and enl. 2nd ed. Springfield, Ill., Thomas,
c1980.  437 p.  (American lecture series, publication no. 1025)
QK99.A1S37 1980*
    Bibliography: p. 369-409.

Taylor, Norman.  Plant drugs that changed the world.  New York, Dodd,
Mead, c1965. 275 p.  QK99.T35*
    Bibliography: p. 255-263.

Tyler, Varro E., Lynn R. Brady, and James E. Robbers.  Pharmacognosy.
9th ed.  Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger, 1988. 519 p.  RS160.T94 1988*
===

SELECTED TITLES REFLECTING DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS
 NORTH AMERICA

Bolyard, Judith L.  Medicinal plants and home remedies of Appalachia.
Springfield, Ill., Thomas, c1981.  187 p.  RS164.B63*

Cox, Donald D.  Common flowering plants of the Northeast: their
natural history and uses.  Albany, N.Y., State University of New York
Press, c1985.  418 p.
    Bibliography: p. 395-398.  QK117.C828 1985*

Moore, Michael.  Medicinal plants of the desert and canyon West: a
guide to identifying, preparing, and using traditional medicinal
plants found in the deserts and canyons of the West and Southwest.
Sante Fe, N.M., Museum of New Mexico Press, 1989.  184 p.  QK99.U6M65
1989
   Bibliography: p. 160-163.


----- Medicinal plants of the mountain West: a guide to the
identification, preparation, and uses of traditional medicinal plants
found in the mountains, foothills, and upland areas of the American
West.  Sante Fe, N.M., Museum of New Mexico Press, c1979.  200 p.
QK99.U6M66 1979
   Bibliography: p. 194-196.

Naegele, Thomas A.  Edible and medicinal plants of the Great Lakes.
Calumet, Mich., T. A. Naegele Survival Seminars, c1980.  427 p.
QK99.G73N33
   Bibliography: p. 263-269.

Touchstone, Samuel J.  Herbal and folk medicine of Louisiana and
adjacent states, Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas.  Princeton,
La., Folk-Life Books, 1983.  175 p.  RS164.T68 1983

Tyler, Varro E.  Hoosier home remedies.  West Lafayette, Ind., Purdue
University Press, 1985.  212 p.  GR110.I6T95 1985 
   Bibliography: p. 191-194.

Viereck, Eleanor.  Alaska's wilderness medicines: healthful plants of
the far north.  Edmonds, Wash., Alaska Northwest Publishing Co.,
c1987.  107 p. QK99.U6V54 1987
   Bibliography: p. 97-102.

Westrich, LoLo.  California herbal remedies.  Houston, Gulf Publishing
Co., Book Division, c1989.  180 p. RM666.H33W445 1989
   Bibliography: p. 164-167.

CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Ayensu, Edward S.  Medicinal plants of the West Indies. Algonac,
Mich., Reference Publications, 1981.  282 p.  QK99.W4A94
   Bibliography: p. 212-213. 

Morton, Julia Frances.  Atlas of medicinal plants of Middle America:
Bahamas to Yucatan.  Springfield, Ill., Thomas, c1981.  1420 p.
QK99.C315M67*
   Bibliography: p. 1297-1319.

Schultes, Richard Evans, and Robert F. Raffauf.  The healing forest:
medicinal and toxic plants of the northwest Amazonia.  Portland, Ore.,
Dioscorides Press, c1990.  484 p.  (Historical, ethno- & economic
botany series, v. 2) QK99.A47S38 1990*
   Bibliography: p. 475-476.

Seaforth, C. E.  Natural products in Caribbean folk medicine. St.
Augustine, Trinidad, W.I., University of the West Indies, c1988.  140
p.  RS164.S475 1988

Seaforth, C. E., C. D. Adams, and Y. Sylvester.  A guide to the
medicinal plants of Trinidad & Tobago.  Rev. version. Tunapuna,
Trinidad, W.I., CARIRI, Caribbean Industrial Research Institute, 1986.
222 p.  RS164.S473 1986
Reprint.  Originally published by Commonwealth Secretariat in London,
c1983.
   Bibliography: p. 201-206.
=== 

AFRICA, ASIA, AND AUSTRALIA

Bensky, Dan, Andrew Gamble, and Ted J. Kaptchuk, comps. Chinese herbal
medicine: materia medica.  Seattle, Eastland Press, c1986.  723 p.
 RS180.C5B46 1986*
    "Historical bibliography": p. 697-701.
  "Translators' bibliography": p. 703-705.

Boulos, Loutfy.  Medicinal plants of North Africa.  Algonac, Mich.,
Reference Publications, 1983.  286 p.  (Medicinal plants of the world,
no. 3) QK99.A43B68 1983
    Bibliography: p. 210-214.

Caius, Jean Ferdinand.  The medicinal and poisonous plants of India.
Jodhpur, India, Scientific Publishers, 1986.  528 p.  QK99.I4C35 1986
"Originally published in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History
Society in 24 parts, v. 37 (4), 1935--v. 45 (3), 1944."

Duke, James A., and Edward J. Ayensu.  Medicinal plants of China.
Algonac, Mich., Reference Publications, 1985.  2 v. (Medicinal plants
of the world, no. 4)
 QK99.C448D85 1985* Text in English, Chinese, and Latin.

Kokwaro, J. O.  Medicinal plants of East Africa.  Kampala, Uganda,
East African Literature Bureau, 1976.  384 p.  RS164.K63

Lassak, E. V., and T. McCarthy.  Australian medicinal plants. North
Ryde, Aus., Methuen Australia, 1983.  240 p.  QK99.A8L37 1983

Manandhar, N. P.  Medicinal plants of Nepal Himalaya. Kathmandu,
Nepal, Ratna Pustak Bhandar, 1980.  85 p.  QK99.N35M36

Oliver-Bever, Bep.  Medicinal plants in tropical West
Africa. Cambridge, Eng., New York, Cambridge University Press, 1986.
375 p.  RS164.057 1986
    Bibliography: p. 269-354.

Roberts, Margaret.  Margaret Roberts' book of herbs: the medicinal and
culinary uses of herbs in South Africa. Bergvlei, South Africa,
J. Ball, 1983.  159 p.  RM666.H33R63 1983

Stark, Raymond.  Maori herbal remedies.  New York, Viking Sevenseas,
c1979.  116 p.  DU423.M38S73 1979

MEDICINAL USES OF PLANTS BY NATIVE AMERICANS Densmore, Frances.  How
Indians use wild plants for food, medicine, and crafts.  New York,
Dover, 1974.  116 p.  E99.C6D415 1974
Reprint of "Uses of plants by the Chippewa Indians" from the 44th
Annual report (1926/27) of the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology
(E51.U55).

Duke, James A.  Handbook of Northeastern Indian medicine. Lincoln,
Mass., Quarterman, 1986.  212 p.  (Bioactive plants, v. 3) Not in LC
collections Bibliography: p. 172-174.

Erichsen-Brown, Charlotte.  Use of plants for the past 500 years.
Aurora, Ont., Breezy Creeks Press, c1979.  510 p.  GN560.U6E75 1979*
   Bibliography: p.  480-501.

Gilmore, Melvin Randolph.  Uses of plants by the Indians of the
Missouri River region.  Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1919.  154
p.  E98.B7G4
 Reprinted from the 33rd Annual report (1911/12) of the U.S. Bureau of
American Ethnology (E51.U55).

Hamel, Paul B., and Mary Ulmer Chiltoskey.  Cherokee plants and their
uses: a 400 year history.  Sylva, N.C., Herald Pub. Co., c1975.  65 p.
E99.C5H224
  Bibliography: p. 64-65. 

Herrick, James William.  Iroquois medical botany.  Ann Arbor, Mich.,
University Microfilms, 1977.  1 microfilm reel. 35mm.  UMI Microfiche
AAC7732244 MicRR Collation of the original: 563 p.
  Bibliography: p. 200-209.
Thesis (doctoral)--State University of New York at Albany, 1977.
Abstracted in Dissertation Abstracts, v. 38A, Feb. 1977: 4912.

Lynas, Lothian.  Medicinal and food plants of the North American
Indians: a bibliography.  New York, Library of the New York Botanical
Garden, 1972.  21 p.  Z1209.2.N67L92*

Moerman, Daniel E.  Geraniums for the Iroquois: a field guide to
American Indian medicinal plants.  Algonac, Mich., Reference
Publications, 1982, c1981.  242 p.
 E98.M4M68 1982 
Bibliography: p. 218-221.
===

----- Medicinal plants of Native America.  Ann Arbor, Museum of
Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1986.  2 v. (910 p.)  (Research
reports in ethnobotany, contribution 2) (University of Michigan Museum
of Anthropology.  Technical reports, no. 19) E98.B7M64 1986* Chiefly
tables.
  Bibliography: p. 527-534.
Updates American Medical Ethnobotany: a Reference Dictionary (Garland
1977).

Scully, Virginia.  A treasury of American Indian herbs: their lore and
their use for food, drugs, and medicine.  New York, Crown Publishers,
1970.  306 p. E98.B7S3 1970
  Bibliography: p. 296-302.

Stark, Raymond.  Guide to Indian herbs.  Vancouver, B.C., Blaine,
Wash., Hancock House, c1981.  48 p. E98.M4S7 1981

Taylor, Lyda Averill Paz.  Plants used as curatives by certain
southeastern tribes.  New York, AMS Press, 1978.  88 p.  E98.M4T39
1978
Reprint of the 1940 ed. published by the Botanical Museum of Harvard
University, Cambridge, Mass.

Train, Percy, James R. Henrichs, and W. Andrew Archer.  Medicinal uses
of plants by Indian tribes of Nevada. Lawrence, Mass., Quarterman
Publications, Inc., 1982.  139 p.  (Bioactive plants, v. 1) E78.N4T7
1982
"This work is a facsimile reproduction of the revised edition of 1957,
which included a summary of pharmacological research by W. Andrew
Archer, published as Contributions Toward a Flora of Nevada, no. 45, a
series prepared through the cooperation of the National Arboretum and
the Plant Introduction Section of the Crops Research Division under
the Agriculture Research Service of the U.S.  Department of
Agriculture, Plant Industry Station, Beltsville, Maryland."
   Bibliography: p. 128-131.

Vogel, Virgil J.  American Indian medicine.  Norman, University of
Oklahoma Press, 1970.  583 p.  (The Civilization of the American
Indian series, 95) E98.M4V6 Expanded version of the author's thesis,
University of Chicago.
   Bibliography: p. 473-517.

Weiner, Michael A.  Earth medicine--earth food: plant remedies, drugs, and

natural foods of the North American Indians.  1st Ballantine Books
ed., rev. & expanded.  New York, Ballantine Books, c1991.  230 p.
E98.M4W4 1991 
   Bibliography: p. 217-218.

Weslager, C. A.  Magic medicines of the Indians.  Somerset, N.J.,
Middle Atlantic Press, 1973.  161 p.  E98.M4W47
   Bibliography: p. 149-151.

Wyman, Leland Clifton, and Stuart Kimball Harris.  Navajo Indian
medical ethnobotany.  New York, AMS Press, 1979.  76 p.  E99.N3W9328
1979 Reprint of the 1941 ed. published in the University of New Mexico
Bulletin, Anthropological series, v. 3, no. 5, whole no. 366.
===

HANDBOOKS, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, AND DICTIONARIES

Angier, Bradford.  Field guide to medicinal wild plants. Harrisburg,
Pa., Stackpole Books, c1978.  320 p.  QK99.N67A53 1978*

Duke, James A.  CRC handbook of medicinal herbs.  Boca Raton, Fla.,
CRC Press, c1985.  677 p.  QK99.A1D83 1985*
   Bibliography: p. 585-594.

Dirfler, Hans-Peter, and Gerhard Roselt.  The dictionary of healing
plants.  London, New York, Blandford Press; New York, Distributed in
the United States by Sterling Pub. Co., 1989.  328 p. QK99.A1D6713
1989
   Translation of Heilpflanzen.

Foster, Steven, and James A. Duke.  A field guide to medicinal plants:
eastern and central North America.  Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
366 p.  (The Peterson field guide series, 40) QK99.U6F68 1990*

Hocking, George Macdonald.  A dictionary of terms in pharmacognosy and
other divisions of economic botany: a compilation of words and
expressions relating principally to natural medicinal and
pharmaceutical materials and the plants and animals from which they
are derived, their chemical composition, applications and uses,
together with some other materials derived from the plant, animal, and
mineral kingdoms of current economic interest. Springfield, Ill.,
Thomas, 1955.  284 p.  QK99.H69 1955*
   Bibliography: p. 254-268.

Kapoor, L. D.  CRC handbook of ayurvedic medicinal plants.  Boca
Raton, Fla., CRC Press, c1990.  416 p.  RS164.K36 1990 
   Bibliography: p. 361-388.

Krochmal, Arnold, and Connie Krochmal.  A field guide to medicinal
plants.  Updated Times Books pbk. ed.  New York, Times Books, 1984.
274 p.  QK99.U6K76 1984*
   Bibliography: p. 16-17.

Tyler, Varro E.  The new honest herbal: a sensible guide to the use of
herbs and related remedies.  2nd ed. Philadelphia, G. F.  Stickley
Co., c1987.  254 p. RM666.H33T94 1987
   Rev. ed. of The Honest Herbal, 1982.

Wren, R. C. Potter's new cyclopaedia of botanical drugs and
preparations.  7th ed. London, Pitman for Potter & Clarke, 1956.  400
p.  RS164.W7 1956*
 First-6th ed. published under title, Potter's Cyclopaedia of
Botanical Drugs and Preparations.  A reprint of this 7th ed., with the
omission of many illustrations, was published in New York in 1972 with
title Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Medicinal Herbs and Preparations.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

American Drug Manufacturers' Association.  Origin and history of all
the pharmacopeial vegetable drugs, chemicals and preparations, with
bibliography.  Washington, Cincinnati, The Caxton Press, c1921.  449
p. RS160.A5
   Bibliography: p. 357-424.

Andrews, Theodora, William L. Corya, and Donald A. Stickel, Jr.  A
bibliography on herbs, herbal medicine, "natural" foods, and
unconventional medical treatment.  Littleton, Colo., Libraries
Unlimited, 1982.  339 p. Z6665.H47A5 1982*
===

Annotated bibliography on opium and oriental poppies and related
species.  By James A. Duke and others.  Beltsville, Md., Plant
Genetics and Germplasm Institute, Agricultural Research Service,
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1973.  349 p. (United States.  Agricultural
Research Service.  ARS-NE-28) Z5356.P3A55

De Laszlo, Henry Guinness.  Library of medicinal plants. Cambridge,
Eng., W.  Heffer, 1958.  1 v.  Z5354.M42D4* 

Gates, Jane Potter.  Medical botany and herbal medicine, January
1988-- December 1989.  Beltsville, Md., National Agricultural Library,
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Apr. 1990. 35 p.  (Quick bibliography
series, QB 90-44) Pamphlet box*

Simon, James E., Alena F. Chadwick, and Lyle E. Craker. Herbs, an
indexed bibliography, 1971-1980: the scientific literature on selected
herbs, and aromatic and medicinal plants of the Temperate Zone.
Hamden, Conn., Archon Books, 1984.  770 p.  Z5996.H37S56 1984*

Von Reis, Siri.  Drugs and foods from little-known plants: notes in
Harvard University herbaria.  Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University
Press, 1973.  366 p.  QK99.A567*

Von Reis, Siri, and Frank J. Lipp, Jr.  New plant sources for drugs
and foods from the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium.  Cambridge,
Mass., Harvard University Press, 1982.  363 p.  QK99.A1V66 1982*

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Folklore and folk medicines.  Edited by John Scarborough. Madison, Wis., 
American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, 1987.  122 p.  (American 
Institute of the History of Pharmacy.  Publication, no. 10)     
RM666.H33F65 1987 

"Symposium presented at the March, 1986, AIHP Annual Meeting held in
San Francisco, California."  Indigenous medicinal plants, including
microbes and fungi. Editor, Purshotam Kaushik.  New Delhi, India,
Today and Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers; Houston, Distributed in
U.S.A. and Canada by Scholarly Publications, 1988. 243 p.  Proceedings
of a national seminar.  QK99.I4I53 1988

International Congress on the History of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
(2nd, 1980, Alexandria, Egypt).  The history of medicinal and aromatic
plants: proceedings of the second International Congress, December
15th to 19th, 1980.  Organised by the Arab Society for the History of
Pharmacy in co- operation with the World Union of Societies of the
History of Pharmacy, Alexandria, Egypt.  Edited by Abdallah Adly.
Karachi, Pakistan, Hamdard Foundation Press, 1982.  216 p.  R164.I57
1980

National Symposium on "Applied Biotechnology of Medicinal, Aromatic,
and Timber Yielding Plants" (1984, Calcutta, India).  Proceedings of
National Symposium on Applied Biotechnology of Medicinal Aromatic and
Timber Yielding Plants, held on 12th & 13th January 1984.  Calcutta,
India, Botanical Lab. of Pharmaco Anatomy, Calcutta University,
College of Science, 1984. 481 p. SB293.N34 1984

Plants: the potentials for extracting protein, medicines, and other
useful chemicals: workshop proceedings.  Washington, Congress of the
United States, Office of Technology Assessment,
U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1983.  252 p.  "OTA-BP-F-23."  TP453.P7P557
1983
===

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

** Available in microform collection, Science Reading Room Chopra,
R. N., S. L. Nayar, and I. C. Chopra.  Glossary of Indian medicinal
plants.  New Delhi, India, Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research, 1956.  350 p.  PB82-226 093**
 Reprinted 1980, Publications & Information Directorate, New Delhi.

Henkel, Alice.  American medicinal flowers, fruits, and
seeds. Washington, U.S.  Govt. Print. Off., 1913.  16 p.
(U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.  Bulletin, no. 26) S21.A7, no. 26

Krochmal, Arnold, Russell S. Walters, and Richard M. Doughty. A guide
to medicinal plants of Appalachia.  Washington, U.S. Forest Service,
U.S.  Govt.  Print. Off., 1971.  291 p. (Agricultural handbook,
no. 400) QK99.K696

Markets for selected medicinal plants and their
derivatives. International Trade Centre, UNCTAD, GATT.  Geneva, ITC,
UNCTAD/GATT, 1982.  206 p.  HD9675.B682M37 1982

Williams, Louis Otho.  Drug and condiment plants.  Washington,
Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1960.  37 p.
(Agriculture handbook, no. 172) QK99.W48

DISSERTATIONS --
-- can be located by using the following indexes located in the
Library's Main Reading Room:

Comprehensive Dissertation Index 1861/1972- (1973- annual) Z5053.X47
1973
 Dissertation Abstracts International (1938- monthly)Z5053.D57
Dissertation Abstracts Ondisc (CD-ROM--same coverage as print
  volumes)
 Masters Abstracts International (1962-1985)    Z5055.U49M3

SELECTED DISSERTATIONS 
(available in Microform Reading Room)

Boylard, Judith L.  Medicinal plants of southeastern Kentucky. Ann
Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms, 1978.  3 microfiche, 4 x 6 in.
UMI Microfiche AAC1311841 MicRR Collation of the original: 201 p.
   Bibliography: p. 188-200.
   Thesis (masters)--Miami University, 1978.
 Abstracted in Masters Abstracts International, v. 17, Mar. 1978: 9.

Marles, Robert James.  The ethnopharmacology of the lowland Quichua of
eastern Ecuador.  3 microfiche, 4 x 6 in.  UMI Microfiche DA8914130
MicRR
   Collation of the original: 213 p.
   Bibliography: p. 182-211.
 Thesis (doctoral)--University of Illinois at Chicago, Health Sciences
Center, 1988.
 Abstracted in Dissertation Abstracts International, v. 50B, Oct. 1988: 
1427-28.

Rowell, Margery.  Medicinal plants in Russia in the eighteenth and
early nineteenth centuries.  1 microfilm reel.  35 mm.  UMI Microfiche
AAC7728906 MicRR 
 Collation of the orginal: 387 p.
Extensive bibliographical notes at ends of chapters. 
Thesis (doctoral)-- University of Kansas, 1977. 
Abstracted in Dissertation Abstracts International, v. 38A, Nov. 1977:
4335-36.

Stevenson, David Richter.  Medicinal plant use and high blood pressure
on St.  Kitts, West Indies.  2 microfiche, 4 x 6 in.  UMI Microfiche
AAC7922566 MicRR
Collation of the original: 133 p.
   Bibliography: p. 129-133.
Thesis (doctoral)--Ohio State University, 1979. Abstracted in 
Dissertation Abstracts International, v.
  40A, Oct. 1979: 2154.
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ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING SERVICES that index relevant journal
articles, technical reports and other types of literature are indexed
in the following guides:

Applied Science & Technology Index (1915-)         Z7913.I7* See:  Botany,

Medical
   Cancer Inhibiting Substances
Biological & Agricultural Index (1916-)           Z5073.A46* See:  Botany,
Medical
   Cancer Inhibiting Substances
   Hallucination and Illusion Producing Plants
Names of specific herbs or plants, e.g., Aloe, Horehound
   Plants--Antibiotic Properties
   Plants--Pesticidal Properties
Chemical Abstracts (1907-)                          QD1.A51* See: 
Pharmacognosy
General Science Index (1978-)                     Z7401.G46* See:  Botany,
Medical
Government Reports Announcements & Index (1946-)  Z7916.G78* See:  
Medicinal Plants
Horticultural Abstracts (1931-)                     SB1.H65* See: 
Medicinal Plants
Index Medicus (1960-)                            Z6660.I422* See: 
Alkaloids
   Drugs, Chinese Herbal
   Medicine, Chinese Traditional
   Medicine, Herbal
   Plant Extracts
   Plant Oils
   Plants, Medicinal
   Pharmacognosy
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (1964-)      RS1.I63* See:  Plants
   Plants, Herbs
   Plants, Medicinal
Magazine Index (1980-)    Available in several formats in LC See:  Botany,
Medical
   Medicinal Plants
Names of specific plants or substances, e.g., Aloe, Comfrey, Ginseng, 
Taxol

Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications (1895-)          
                             
Z1233.A18* See:  Medical Botany
   Medicinal Plants
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (1900-)      AI3.R45 See:  Botany,
Medical
Names of specific herbs or plants, e.g., Ginseng, Horehound

Online databases may be available in some libraries.  Databases likely
to be useful for topics related to medicinal plants include AGRICOLA,
BIOSIS Previews, Life Sciences Collection, MEDLINE, SCISEARCH,
and the specialized sources listed below:
 NAPRALERT.  (Natural Products Database)
Producer: Program for Collaborative Research in the Pharmaceutical
Sciences
College of Pharmacy
University of Illinois at Chicago Telephone: (312) 996-2246 
Contact person: Marylou Quinn
An acronym for NAtural PRoduct ALERT, this database is available on a
fee- for-service basis from the University of Illinois.  The database
specializes in providing ethnomedical, pharmacological, and
phytochemical profiles on extracts and compounds for plant, animal,
microbial, and marine sources, taken from more than 75,000 sources of
current and past literature.

 TOXLINE.  (Toxicology Information Online)
Producer: National Library of Medicine MEDLARS
    8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, Maryland 20894 Telephone: (301) 496-6193 
Contact person: Carolyn Tilley

Bibliographical citations covering the toxicological, pharmacological,
biochemical, physiological, and environmental effects of drugs and
other chemicals, including plants and other natural products.  This
database is available for a fee from several sources.

JOURNALS that often contain articles on medicinal plants are
Economic and Medicinal Plant Research           RS164.E27 
Economic Botany                                 SB1.E3 
Herba Polonica                                  RS164.P78 
Herbs, Spices, and Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in 
Botany, Horticulture, and Pharmacology          SB293.H4
Journal of Ethnopharmacology        Not in LC collections 
Journal of Natural Products                     QH1.L94 
Phytotherapy Research               Not in LC collections 
Planta Medica                                   RS164.P7
Prevention                                      RA421.P68
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REPRESENTATIVE JOURNAL ARTICLES
Anozie, V. C.  Pharmacognostic studies on Datura metel L. Herba
Polonica, t. 32, nr. 3/4, 1986: 197-208.  RS164.P78

Beal, Jack L.  One man's quest for plant constituents of therapeutic
value.  Economic botany, v. 44, Jan./Mar. 1990: 4-11. SB1.E3

Brooker, Stanley G., Richard C. Cambie, and Robert C. Cooper. Economic
native plants of New Zealand.  Economic botany, v. 43, Jan./Mar. 1989:
79-104. SB1.E3

Brown, Martha.  Tropical rain forests: stronghold of biological
diversity.  Western wildlands, v. 13, winter 1988: 6-10. QH76.5.M9W47

Grandinetti, Deborah.  Hi-tech healers from nature's medicine chest.
Prevention, v. 40, Dec. 1988: 48-50.  RA421.P68

Hufford, Charles D., Shihchih Liu, and Alice M. Clark.  Antifungal
activity of Trillium grandiflorum constitutents. Journal of natural
products, v. 51, Jan./Feb. 1988: 9498. QH1.L94

Iwu, M. M., and W. E. Court.  The alkaloids of Rauwolfia cumminsii.
Planta medica, v. 34, Dec. 1978: 390-396.  RS164.P7

Jackson, Donald Dale.  Searching for medicinal wealth in Amazonia.
Smithsonian, v. 19, Feb. 1989: 95-102, 171.  AS30.S6

Merewood, Anne.  Plants of the apes: when chimps are sick, they dose
themselves with plants from nature's pharmacy. Wildlife conservation,
v.  94, Mar./Apr. 1991: 54-59.  QL1.N5

Natural plant chemicals: sources of industrial and medicinal
materials.  Science, v. 228, June 7, 1985: 1154-1160.  Q1.S35

Palevitch, D., and others.  Medicinal plants of Israel: an
ethnobotanical survey.  Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants: recent
advances in botany, horticulture, and pharmacology, v. 1, 1986:
281-345. SB293.H4

Trigg, P. I.  Qinghaosu (Artemisinin) as an antimalarial
drug. Economic and medicinal plant research, v. 3, 1989: 19-55.
RS164.E27

SELECTED MATERIALS 
available in the Science Reading Room pamphlet box include:

Abelson, Philip H.  Medicine from plants.  Science, v. 247,
  Feb. 2, 1990: 513.

Block, Eric.  The chemistry of garlic and onions; sulfur compounds
account for both odor and the medicinal effects attributed to these
bulbs.  Scientific American, v. 252, Mar. 1985: 114-119, 128.

Craker, L. E., A. F. Chadwick, and J. E. Simon.  An introduction to
the scientific literature on herbs, spices, and medicinal plants.
Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants: recent advances in botany,
horticulture, and pharmacology, v. 1, 1986: 3-9.

Neild, R. E.  Use of climatic data to identify potential sites in the
United States for growing Papaver bracteatum as a pharmaceutical crop.
Journal of climate and applied meteorology, v. 26, Sept. 1987:
1117-1123.

Principe, Peter P.  The economic significance of plants and their
constituents as drugs.  Economic and medicinal plant research, v. 3,
1989: 1-17.

Rheingold, Howard.  Ethnobotany and the search for vanishing
knowledge.  Whole earth review, no. 64, fall 1989: 16-23.

Stehlin, Dori.  Harvesting drugs from plants.  FDA consumer, v. 24,
Oct.  1990: 20-23.

Schultes, Richard Evans.  Primitive plant lore & modern conservation. 
Orion 
nature quarterly, v. 7, summer 1990: 8-15.

Tyler, Varro E.  Plant drugs in the twenty-first century. Economic
botany, v. 40, July/Sept. 1986: 279-288.

Wallace, Joseph.  Rainforest Rx.  Sierra, v. 76, July/Aug. 1991:
36-41.

Weil, Andrew.  A new look at botanical medicine.  Whole earth review,
no.  64, fall 1989: 54-61.
===

ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION
  Economic Botany Library of Oakes Ames
  Harvard University Herbaria
  22 Divinity Avenue
  Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
  Telephone: (617) 495-2366
 Library provides a limited reference service.  Emphasis is on
historical collections in ethnobotany and economic botany.

  Germplasm Services Laboratory
  Plant Sciences Institute
  U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Beltsville Agricultural Research Center--West Building 001, Room 322
  Beltsville, Maryland 20705
  Telephone: (301) 344-3328
 Has the responsibility for plants and seeds introduced to the United
States for researchers in federal, state, and private facilities.  Has
prepared plant inventories since 1898.  Maintains computerized data
banks on ecological requirements and nutritional composition of plants
and ethnomedicine.

  International Biotoxicological Center (IBC)
  World Life Institute
  23000 Grand Terrace Road
  Colton, California 92324
  Telephone: (714) 825-4773
  Fax: (714) 783-3477
 Serves as the official reference and documentation center for WHO,
FAO, and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Provides consulting, reference, literature searching services on a fee
basis and permits on-site use of its extensive collections on
phytotoxicology, medicinal plants, and natural products.

  Lloyd Library and Museum
  917 Plum Street
  Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
  Telephone: (513) 721-3707
 Answers inquiries, makes referrals to other sources of information,
and permits on-site use of its collections. Publishes the Journal of
Natural Products.

  Morton Collectanea
  P.O. Box 248204
  University of Miami
  Coral Gables, Florida 33124
  Telephone: (305) 284-3741

 Answers inquiries, provides literature-searching and duplication
services for a fee to individuals and commercial organizations.  Has
over 50,000 subject files in economic botany, poisonous plants, edible
wild plants and medicinal plants.
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