Complementary/Alternative Medicine
-
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.
|
|
