Welcome to the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine Homepage, celebrating the legacy of herbalist Michael RS Moore, the “godfather of western botanical medicine.”

The Southwest School of Botanical Medicine (SWSBM), founded by herbalist Michael R.S. Moore, offered in person intensive botanical medicine programs from 1980 until 2006.  This site contains information he collected, discovered, elucidated, and cataloged about medicinal plants, after a lifetime spent using, selling, and teaching about them.  Scanned texts of classic Eclectic and Physiomedical books, ecological and habitat distributions of medicinal plants in the Western US, and downloadable versions of his teaching materials are also available for viewing.

Resources

MASTER GENUS INDEX

Integrating all plant photos, illustrations, maps, abstracts, constituents, monographs, major papers and folios by genus and species.

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All Works
by Michael Moore

Texts and herb manuals authored by Michael Moore, and teaching materials from the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine.

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RESEARCH RESOURCES

Classic Eclectic Medical and other historical texts and pictures hand-scanned by Michael with his commentary.

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BIOREGIONAL HERB RESOURCES

An updated resource list is in the works and will be added soon.

RESOURCES

Remembering Michael Moore