- Complementary Medicine DataBases

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Hi (and others),

I did a search on our clinical resources page for alternative

medicine databases and I found the following that I think are

accessible to the public. I entered into the databases " immune

boosters " and came up with some interesting results, I think. As

expected the echinacea was the one most often encountered

and it seems to have the most clinical evidence of its

effectiveness. I did not look though, to see what the side effects

are. As mentioned in another post, many of this things have to

checked for liver toxicity. The Herb Med is the one that seemed

the easiest to use.

Here are some of the databases that I found interesting in my

quick search of this morning:

American Indian Ethnobotany Database

http://herb.umd.umich.edu/

Foods, drugs, dyes and Fibers of Native North American

Peoples. Dr. Moerman's resource from University of Michigan

HerbMed

http://www.herbmed.org

Categorized, evidence-based resource for herbal information,

with hyperlinks to clinical and scientific publications and dynamic

links for automatic updating, produced by the nonprofit

Alternative Medicine Foundation.

IBIDS

http://ods.od.nih.gov/showpage.aspx?pageid=48

International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements

(IBIDS) is a database of published, international, scientific

literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals,

and botanicals, produced by the Office of Dietary Supplements at

the National Institutes of Health.

This one I just thought was interesting:

http://www.rosenthal.hs.columbia.edu/