Because the area of Pharmacognosy (the medicinal use of natural products) came up recently both publicly and privately I decided to do a search to what is on the internet now in that regard. Certainly, for texts it makes sense to use those which are complete enough to include cautions, counter-indications, interactions, etc. but I figured that perhaps there will be some reputable on-line resources now, too, so I am searching on pharmacognosy and then will search on "veterinary pharmacognosy" to see what comes up. American Society of Pharmacognosy http://www.phcog.org/ Natural product press releases http://www.phcog.org/News.html ASP Newsletter Archive http://www.phcog.org/Newsletter/Archive.html Links to professional pharmacognosy sites around the world: http://www.phcog.org/links.html Journal of Natural Products http://www.phcog.org/jnp.html and http://pubs.acs.org./journals/jnprdf/index.html (Both include subscription information and the second includes an archive, and the second also has a link to a Japanese version. Co-published by the American Society of Pharmacognosy and the American Chemical Society.) American Botanical Council http://www.herbalgram.org/ has a book catalog (with some books I am not lusting over to add to my several older texts on the subject but can't swing getting) and they say there is browsing at http://www.herbalgram.org/bookcatalog/default.asp Here is their page of links to educational materials they have written, reviewed and checked, or published: http://www.herbalgram.org/default.asp?c=herb_info American Herbal Products Council http://www.ahpa.org/ Herb Research Foundation http://www.herbs.org/ including http://www.herbs.org/news.htm International Society of Chemical Ecology newsletter http://www.chemecol.org/newsletters/vol_22_1.htm http://www.cis.um.edu.mt/~phcy/symp/phar&vet.htm takes a long while to come up but lists some vet pharmacognosy and vet pharmacy projects in Malta I seem to be finding many lists of journals (too many not linking ones) and course descriptions like this one in vet toxicology http://www.catalogs.umn.edu/grad/programs/g170.html Now HERE is something SCARY; the only site I got for "Veterinary Pharmacognosy" is a diploma mill! Not putting that one up. Something else SCARY searching on Veterinary Herbal: a site which includes some approaches that can be dangerous to certain animals, for instance using garlic for inflamed anal glands in some members of Carnivora which can induce a fatal anemia. Not putting that one up. A VIN Course and its required materials: http://www.vin.com/CE/ALTM102-0904.htm Vet Botanical Med Assoc: http://www.vbma.org/main%20pages/events.html Licencing of herbal vet meds and vet herbal meds (UK): http://www.natural-animal-health.co.uk/herbs-european.htm ***I recall that Mary mentioned a book on this topic in the past in the FML and said that it also included cautions, counter-indications, etc. It looks like that may be a person's best bet unless someone else can find something reputable. See the FML Archives -- addy in the headerof each day's FML.*** IMPORTANT to remember: there are multiple plants which are endangered in the wild due to over-harvesting for medicinal purposes. This is nothing new. The first recorded plant to go extinct from human causes was a North African plant the Romans considered to have properties for reproductive success. Here are two current examples. Wild ginsengs of several continents are in trouble from over-harvesting and there are (or have been) projects to develop horticultural approaches, including one in upper NY State. I don't know how those projects turned out. Echinacea can be readily grown and is available from many sources, yet some places in the plains of Montana have been largely denuded of these plants and had a cascade effect as a result. Try to NOT buy wild-gathered herbal meds, please. It is a practice which does way too much ecological damage too often. [Posted in FML issue 4840]