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Natural Medicines

Tutorial on Natural Medicine's databases and tools.

Databases

Natural Medicines provides access to seven internal databases that provide information on the topics from supplements to medical conditions.

  • Food, Herbs & Supplements
    • This database provides links several thousand foods, herbs and supplements that, when selected, can take you to a monograph of gathered information about the substance from multiple medical and scientific sources.
  • Health & Wellness
    • This database provides monographs on ways to maintain wellness in holistic manners, like diets, acupuncture and therapies.
  • Sports Medicine
    • Sports Medicine provides the links to foods, herbs, supplements and physical maladies that affects physical activity.  Most of the links can also be located in the Foods, Herbs & Supplements and Medical Conditions sections.
  • Comparative Effectiveness
    • This database offers links to pages that state the effectiveness of certain supplemental therapies on symptoms and diseases.
  • Manufacturers
    • This database contains monographs on products, sorted by company.  
  • Commercial Products
    • This database has all the information as Manufacturers, but is sorted alphabetically by product.
  • Fixed Herbal Combinations
    • This database provides an extensive list of commercial herbal products.

Many of these monographs are available in a printable format, as a patient handout, in English, Spanish, and French.