Herb and Dietary Supplement Information

Indexes the literature of alternative medicine. Includes newsletter and consumer literature. Use "Limit to peer-reviewed" for scholarly publications.

English articles from a Japanese science database. Excellent source Traditional Chinese Medicine. Information is dated.

A proprietary database created and maintained by Dr. Norman Farnsworth of the University of Illinois Chicago. Specializes in ethnopharmacology, clinical studies, natural product chemistry. Somewhat out of date. Searchers pay per citation downloaded. Search assistance is available.

Created by Biomedical Informatics Department, East China Normal University, Shanghai. Search by prescription, herb, ingredient, disease, drug, or target. This database takes a long time to load, but be patient, it will eventually. It is the only TCM database in English we have been able to find.

A European database of biomedical literature with extensive indexing on herbs and dietary supplements. Superior indexing and retrieval on herbal medicine.

National Library of Medicine Index to the biomedical literature. See search tips page for suggestions on strategies.

A nursing and allied health index. Recent improved indexing on herb/dietary supplement topics has enchanced the content of this database.

Search for a natural medicine, an indication or a pharmacological action then LIMIT to the dietary supplement subset.

Since pharmacognosy, the discovery of new medicines from nature, has long been a discipline within the field of pharmacy this database of the international pharmacy literature is an important resource. Available at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy libraries.

This is a small index covering the literature of complementary and alternative medicine. The titles indexed include newsletters and many popular magazines. If you are searching for scholarly material be sure to limit your search by checking the scholarly journals check box and/or limit to academic journals.

Try going to the Advance Search page and selecting terms from the indexes

An index to agricultural and botany literature.

The Chemical Abstracts online database. An excellent resource for mechanism of action, analytical chemistry.

Interdisciplinary database covering biomedical literature. Coverage of recent literature is strongest. For older studies search Science Citation Index. (Not at HU)

Covers the scientific cross-disciplinary literature back to 19thC. Keyword searching only. Citation searching. (Harvard access)