Wake Up! How do you find out if it is Legit?

We all know that the use of herbs for medicine marks us as nascent witches (bring on the broom, I carry mine proudly)

We have some help in looking at what is any good---use some of these links and report back to me in the  morning.


Some Sites for Basic Herb Planting Information

National Center for  Complimentary and Alternative Medicine. Here, you  can  see what the US government has done, but be awate that many herbs are judged to be moderately effective, not highly. Some other resources are needed here.

Sloan Kettering About Herbs, Botanicals, and Other Products On this site, you will find the results of many tests on herb effectiveness. The overlap between this  site and the US site is total. The  new information is on the botanical oroducts.

Some Others:

Quackwatch Check these sections: Legal/Political Issues, "Supplement" and "Health Food" Products, Herbal Products. This is a contrarian site; beware and evaluate evidence well.
Here is part of  a paper on the site::

"False Tenets of Paraherbalism

"Tenet #5: The "Doctrine of Signatures" is meaningful."

 (C'MON! This a paper on myths---but it is hard to believe that a writer would think the audience is that misinformed and uncritical. But go read it---the better to know what is promulgated .)

From the site:

"This page provides an index to information on the wide variety of substances sold as "dietary supplements" by health-food stores, pharmacies, multilevel companies, health practitioners, and mail-order entrepreneurs, and Internet outlets. A few such substances are useful, but most are promoted with false or misleading claims. Most of the articles are on Quackwatch, but some are on other sites."
 

Herbal Information: University Extension Links Here, you can gather info as universities  present it. 

Herbs: Organic Greenhouse Production---Directory of Organic Seed Suppliers
A food link to have come spring---actually, before, to plan well.


Growing Savory Herbs---do you want  to grow your own and sell it? This fives a larger perspective than we would use, but we get to know what we are in for and how herb crops are counted.