Resources
- Books
- Herbs
- Acupuncture
- Local Resources
- Nutrition
- Health and Wellness
- Planatary Wellness
- Chinese Culture
- Research
- Medication Information
Books
Many of these books can be reviewed at Cascade Wellness Center
Herbs
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Some great Herbalists:
Christopher Hobbs - Eastern and Western Herbs - lots of great information
Steven Foster - a great herbalist and photographer
Herbal Science
Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
Organizations and Information
United Plant Savers - Protecting native medicinal plants of the United States and Canada and their native habitat.
Discover Herbs- publishers of The Herb Companion for information on cultivation and use, including recipes
Califonia Native Plants - Calflora provides information on wild California plants for conservation, education, and appreciation.
American Botanical Council - providing education using science-based and traditional information to promote the responsible use of herbal medicine
Schools of Herbalism
Michael Tierra's Planetherbs and East West Herb Course
Med Herb - North American Institute of Medical Herbalism, Inc.
Seeds
Seeds of Change - for organic seeds of all kinds.
Elite Farmer Aims to disseminate information of use to people with small farms or rural property. Topics include seeds, crops, forage, flowers, fruit, fruit tree, herb, garden, shrubs, oil, vegetable and much more. Most documents are in pdf format.
Acupuncture
POINTS a resource for locating acupuncture points
American Association of Orriental Medicine
Washington Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Association
National Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Alliance
National Licencing Board - NCCAOM
The Doctors of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Local Resources
The Town, Lodging and Local Businesses
Leavenworth Winter Sports Club
Get in the flow on the river!
FLUID Adventures Washington's premier kayak school
Osprey Rafting Leavenworth's hometown rafting company
Chelan County Health, Beauty and Wellbeing The complete guide to Health, Beauty and Wellbeing in the Chelan County area.
Internet Business Directory for the United States
Nutrition
My friend Erik Smith - a brilliant nutritionalist and acupuncturist
Erik's Nutritional Links Page with Whole Foods Online, Healthy Weightloss, Cancer information and more.
Acai - a really great fruit - Yum! Tastes like blueberry chocolate
Yerba Mate - A GREAT alternative to coffee. A tea from the rain forest full of antioxidants and vitamins, can lower your blood pressure and break down fat.
Consumer Lab A secondary tester of vitamins and suplements. A good place to make sure the vitamins you are taking do not have lead or other contaminants in them, and that they contain what they say they do. Unfortunatly you have to sign up!
Grass fed beef online, as well as other well fed meats. You are what you eat eats...when cows are fed grass their entire lives their fats have a much higher omega 3 content, making for much healthier meat eating.
Similar products including black sesamie seeds at a great price can be found at Sage Mountain Natural Foods on hwy 2 in Leavenworth located just before you reach Safeway on the left as you are leaving town.
Some books on Nutrition from the Traditional Oriental Medicine Perspective:
Health and Wellness
meta e-health This integrative medicine site lets patients sign up free to get a specific newsletter related to their illnesses and preference of treatment modalities. They also get access to a health care encyclopedia geared to their interests and needs.
Health Education Assets Library Free, high-quality digital materials for health sciences education
Institute for Traditional Medicine Information and articles on traditional medicines
Self Growth The Online Self Improvement Encyclopedia
Planatary Wellness
Our amazing universe as shown by Hubble
Biodiesel Blog - an alternative fuel source resource
Biodynamic Farming - sustainable farming
Biodynamic Gardening - sustainable gardening
Patagonia - Conscious clothes shopping
World Prayers - prayers from all over the world from all religions selected randomly
Chinese Culture
Research
National Institute of Health - Complementary & Alternative Therapies
Public Liabrary & Digital Archive
World Heath Organization's report on Acupuncture reasearch
World Health Organization on Acupuncture
Medication Information
Medline Plus A Service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
For Drug Facts and Comparisons
Information for Parents about depression medication for their children - The American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry have prepared these Guides to help patients, families, and physicians make informed decisions about obtaining and administering the most appropriate care for a child with depression.