Subject Guides: Drug Information: Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Databases

Natural Medicines This link opens in a new window
Evidence-based, peer-reviewed resource on complementary and alternative medicine, with monographs, flashcards and references; also features interaction checkers, continuing education, and news briefs. Mobile friendly. App available.
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health This link opens in a new window
NCCIH, a free resource from the National Institutes of Health, works to define, through rigorous scientific investigation, the usefulness and safety of complementary and integrative health interventions and their roles in improving health and health care. Mobile friendly.

Cochrane Library Complementary & Alternative Medicine
A database for protocols and systematic reviews of trials and studies relating to complementary and alternative medicine.

Medline Plus Herbs & Supplements
Quick overviews of herbal remedies, and dietary supplements.
About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products
Provides evidence-based information about herbs, botanicals, supplements and more. Produced by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Your literature search will be automatically limited to the complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) subset of PubMed.

Medical Marijuana: A Clinical Handbook by Samoon Ahmad, Kevin P. Hill
Publication Date: 2020
Presents today's available information on cannabis and its uses in all areas of patient care. Summarizes what is currently known about the positive and negative health impacts of cannabis, including detailed pharmacological profiles of THC and CBD, and applicability to multiple specialties.
Textbook of Natural Medicine by Pizzorno, Joseph E.)
Publication Date: 2020