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illustrator, Peggy. On Sept. 30, 1995, he retired after 30 years with the
USDA.Before retiring, Dr. Duke brought his Father Nature's Farmacy database
online at USDA. It is now, in Duke's retirement, one of the most frequently
consulted database with the Plant Genome Project at USDA. The URL address
is: http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke
Duke has already doubled the data content in the interactive database he
maintains as Director, Duke's Herbal Vineyard, Inc. The database is
especially useful for determining biological activities and healing potentials
of food ands herbs.
With an aggregate of more then five years in Latin America, Duke has
traversed parts of Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa
Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guadelupe, Guatemala, Honduras,
Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. In Asia, he has
had lengthy visits in China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and quick looks at
Burma, Japan, Laos and Vietnam. In the Middle East, he has worked in Iran,
Israel, Kuwait, and Syria, with quick looks at the Mediterranean countries of
Egypt, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. His only tours in tropical Africa
include Madagascar, Sao Tome, The Ivory Coast and Zambia. Recently he has
been teaching field ethnobotany regularly in Amazonian Peru, Belize and
Costa Rica (mostly in the winter) and in the Maine northwoods (in summer
only). In 1997, similar tours are planned for Kenya and Uganda.
Jim belongs to the American Botanical Council (Trustee), American Herb
Association (Life), American Society of Pharmacognosy, Association for
Tropical Biology (Life), Council of Agricultural Science and Technology
(Cornerstone Life Member), Herb Research Foundation (Advisor),
International Association of Plant Taxonomists (Life), International Society for
Tropical Root Crops (Life), International Weed Science Society (Life),
Organization for Tropical Studies (Life), Oriental Healing Arts Society
(Honorary), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Smithsonian Institution (Collaborator),
Society for Conservation Biology (Life), Society for Economic Botany (Life),
Southern Appalachian Botanical Club (Life), and the Washington Academy of
Sciences (Life).
Dr. Duke serves as a Senior Scientific Adviser to Nature's Herbs and is on the
board of trustees of the American Botanical Council, Director, Botanical
Products International (Hakalau Hawaii) and Microbotanica, the Scientific
Advisory Team of Shaman Pharmaceuticals (San Francisco), Medical Advisory
Board of Herbalife (Los Angeles), and serves as Medicinal Plant Adviser to
Reader's Digest and Time-Life. He also serves as an advisor or unpaid
consultant to ACEER (Amazon Center for Environmental Education and
Research), Alternative Medicine Digest, American Health, the Center for
Alternative Medicine in Women's Health (NY), Center for Mind-Body Medicine,
Center for Plant Conservation, Herb Research Foundation, International
Expeditions, National College of Phytotherapy, Rodale Press, Rheumatology
Unit (NIH); Supplements/ Dietary Advisory Board (NIH, Bethesda MD),
Rosenthal Center for Alternative/Complementary Medicine, TRAMIL, and the
World Health Organization (Traditional Medicine Program ). He is CEO of a
newly formed consulting firm, Duke's Herbal Vineyard Inc, where he is writing
the newsletter, News from the Herbal Village, and raising several specimen
herbs for analysis and study. Routinely queried by editors and writers for
several different popular and scientific health-oriented journals, and by
producers of radio and television networks, both conservative and liberal,
Duke recently has given accredited continuing education lectures on herbal
medicine, pros and cons, to chiropractors, nurses, nurse practitioners,
pharmacists, and physicians.