Michael Moore (January 9, 1941 – February 20, 2009) was a medicinal

herbalist Herbal medicine (also herbalism) is the study of pharmacognosy and the use of medicinal plants, which are a basis of traditional medicine. With worldwide research into pharmacology, some herbal medicines have been translated into modern remed ...

, author of several reference works on botanical medicine, and founder of the

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(SWSBM). Before he was an herbalist Michael Moore was a musician and a composer, father and husband. Michael Moore – SW School of Botanical Medicine Home Page
/ref> He operated the SWSBM as a residency program for 28 years, first in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and later in

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. For decades, Moore influenced, impacted, taught, and reached one way or another more practicing herbalists than any other living herbalist in the United States. His books put the previously unknown materia medica of the southwest into mainstream botanical field. While Moore believed herbs and plants provided a natural way of treating many afflictions, allopathic medications were to be used when required.

Resources revived by Moore

Michael Moore's web site is a major resource of historical material from the

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and Physiomedicalists, of hundreds of plant images and data as well as SWSBM teaching materials. Moore was a major contributor in the revival of many historical texts of botanical medicine which had been lost to the general public. In 1990 Moore visited the

Lloyd Library and Museum Lloyd Library and Museum is an independent research library located in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Its core subject and collection focus is medicinal plants, with emphasis on botany, pharmacy, natural history, alternative medicine, and the history ...

in Cincinnati, Ohio, where, in the basement, he found the accumulated libraries of all of the Eclectic medical schools, shipped off to the Eclectic Medical College as they closed. The material he published was from the Eclectics,

Thomsonian medicalists Samuel Thomson (9 February 1769 – 5 October 1843) was a self-taught American herbalist and botanist, best known as the founder of the alternative system of medicine known as "Thomsonian Medicine", which enjoyed wide popularity in the United S ...

and Physiomedicalists.

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Tapes by Michael Moore
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