[NHCOLL-L:2208] Herbage Ethnobotany Database

[mzfashm2 at mail1.mcc.ac.uk]

Does anybody have experience of this database and how user 
friendly it is. Is the information accurate? I include the whole advert 
as received.

Thanks in advance.
Henry McGhie, Curator of Zoology, Manchester Museum, UK


   Herbage Ethnobotany Database CD-ROM
                           Third Edition 
                          by Tim Johnson 
author of the CRC Ethnobotany Desk Reference 
Limited time offer! Order directly from the Author and save 
$130 off the retail price. 
The Herbage CD-ROM contains a database of over 28,000 
concise monographs of medicinal plant species 
characteristics - and an inventory of claimed attributes and 
historical uses by cultures throughout the world. - the result 
of more than a decade of independent research. 
Monographs are linked to ! hundreds of thousands of 
articles and images via the world wide web, providing an 
exhaustive tool for in-depth global herb research. Each 
species listing has links to powerful image and article 
searches. 
   Features   
   - Presents information from diverse fields, including 
botany, ethnobatany, entheobotany, and Asian traditional 
medicine 
- Addresses the global uses of all plant families 
    - Organizes monograph information in 12 categories, 
including plant family, indigenous use, and body parts 
treated by plant 
- Alphabetical listing of plant species 

   - Web-browser based, compatib! le with any Windows or 
Macintosh computer   





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Mr. Henry McGhie, Curator of Zoology, The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, UK M13 9PL
Telephone: +44 (0)161 2752482
Fax: +44 (0)161 2752676
Web: http://museum.man.ac.uk