Complementary Medicine Databases

AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine Database)
This is a database produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library. It includes complemenary medicine resources from nursing, palliative care and several professions allied to medicine. It is available through university libraries, or by subscription.

CINAHL (Cumulative Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
An index to the nursing literature and to a range of holistic and complementary medicine literature. Available through university libraries or by subscription.

EMBASE
An international database to citations covering the biomedical, pharmacological and drug literature. Available through university libraries or by subscription.

HOM-INFORM:
The British Homeopathic Library is a library and information service dedicated to the research and practice of homeopathy. It includes abstracts from homeopathic journals world-wide.

MANTIS:
The MANTIS Database is the largest source of osteopathic, chiropractic and manual medical literature in the world. It contains abstracts from peer-reviewed chiropractic, osteopathic and manual medicine journals.

MedLine Plus Alternative Medicine
MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations.

NAPRALERT:
Abstracts of the information on natural products including, biological and pharmacological activity, plant chemistry and taxonomic distribution. More than 200,000 scientific papers and reviews are included in NAPRALERT

HERBMED:
An interactive, electronic herbal database providing hyperlinked access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health. It is an impartial, evidence-based information resource provided by the nonprofit Alternative Medicine Foundation, Inc. This public site provides free access to 40 herbs.

The Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons has an excellent directory of databases which includes links to most of the resources cited.

The Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library has a separate field set aside for meta-analyses of clinical trials information on complementary medicines. While a limited number of these meta-analyses have been performed, those that have been performed are very useful summations of the evidence in relation to safety and efficacy.

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