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CAM Citation Index (Complementary & Alternative Medicine Citation Index)
www.nlm.nih.gov/nccam/camonpubmed.asp
Produced by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health Contains 180,000 bibliographic citations from the Medline database from 1963-1999 covering all aspects of complementary and alternative medicine.
HerbMed
www.amfoundation.org/herbmed.htm
An interactive electronic herbal database with direct links to the supporting scientific literature. Produced by the Alternative Medicine Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing evidence-based research resources to health professionals and consumers.
Dr. Dukes Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
www.ars-grin.gov/duke/index.asp
Two searchable databases by James Duke, Ph.D., formerly an ethnobotanist with the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Provides the chemical constituents and activities of plant foods, spices and herbs, ethnobotanical uses of plants, plant sources for particular phytochemicals and more.
EMBASE
Elsevier Science Publishing
www.embase.com
Subscription available through Elsevier and other online vendors
A biomedical and pharmaceutical database (Excerpta Medica) covering over 3,500 international journals. Coverage includes medicinal plants and alternative medicine.
International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements Databases (IBIDS)
http://odp.od.nih.gov/ods/databases/ibids.asp
Produced by the Office of Dietary Supplements of the National Institutes of Health and the National Agricultural Library of the Department of Agriculture. A bibliographic database of the worldwide scientific literature on dietary supplements (vitamins, minerals, herbal and botanical supplements) from 1986 to the present. Information is currently derived from MEDLINE, AGRICOLA AND AGRIS databases, with ten additional databases planned.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: About Herbs, Botanicals and Other Products
www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/11570.cfm
Evidence-based information with citations linked directly to Medline on herbs, vitamins, supplements and more. A summary for each agent is provided as well as details about consituents, adverse effects, interactions and potential benefits or problems.
Napralert Natural Products Alert
Available from CAS (http://info.cas.org
Bibliographic and property data on more than 130,000 natural products, dating back to 1650. Includes information on pharmacology, biological activity, ethnomedicine, taxonomic distribution and the chemistry of plant, microbial and animal extracts. Updated monthly. Contains abstracts from journals, patents and meeting abstracts.
Southwest School of Botanical Medicine
www.swsbm.com/HOMEPAGE/HomePage.asp
Offers an extensive database of 1,400 plant images, herbal formulas, herbal-medical contraindications, an herbal repertory for health practitioners, herbal tinctures, specific indications for herbal preparations, and more.
The University of Maryland herbal database
www.umm.edu/altmed/ConsLookups/Herbs.asp
Evidence-based information covering overview, plant description, medicinal uses, indications, available forms, instructions, precautions, interactions, and references. Also links to conditions it is used for, herbs with similar uses, drugs that interact, and herbs with similar warnings.
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