Complementary & Alternative Medicine
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- Alternative Medicine
Various sites selected for general information on Complementary/Alternative Medicine at MEDLINEplus.
- Herbal Safety
The University of Texas at El Paso created this website to provide information about research findings, in English and Spanish, related to herbal use. A number of very helpful fact sheets on commonly used medicinal herbs and plants are available from this website.
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Provides access to a database with over 18,000 articles, with abstracts, from PubMed. This site is sponsored by National Institutes of Health.
- Native American Ethnobotany
This site is a searchable database of foods, drugs, dyes and fibers of Native American peoples, derived from plants. So find out what the Ojibwe people used for spider bites.
- Alternative & Complementary Medicine Center, HealthWorld Online
Contains resources for the most common types of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Provided by HealthWorld Online.
- Alternative Medicine Homepage
Maintained by Charles B. Wessel, a medical librarian at the Falk Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Considered a "jumpstation" to sources of information on complementary, alternative, unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, innovative and integrative therapies.
- Office of Dietary Supplements
The ODS is a Congressionally mandated office in the Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH). The ODS supports research and disseminates research results in the area of dietary supplements. The ODS also provides advice to other Federal agencies regarding research results related to dietary supplements.
