Library : Useful Websites : Dietary Supplements & Herbs

Life West provides links to external websites as a service to students who want to diversify their studies.  No endorsement is implied.

Dietary Supplements Labels Database
http://dietarysupplements.nlm.nih.gov/   Detailed information from the labels of over 3,000 brands of supplements such as vitamins, minerals, herbs and other botanicals, and amino acids from the Dietary Supplements On-Line Database by DeLima Associates. Also provides lists of products marketed to special groups such as women, children, or seniors, and provides links to topical content available at other government sites and databases.

HerbMed

http://www.herbmed.org/

Alternative Medicine Foundation's compilation of scientific evidence on efficacy and safety of 20 most popular herbs.  Database of 240 herbs is available by subscription only.

Herbs at a Glance
http://www.nccam.nih.gov/health/herbsataglance.htm
U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine provides fact sheets about specific herbs and botanicals.

International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) Database
http://ods.od.nih.gov/Health_Information/IBIDS.aspx
Collaboration between USDA and NIH provides access to bibliographic citations and abstracts from published, international, and scientific literature on dietary supplements.

MedlinePlus:  Drugs, Supplements, and Herbal Information
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
Searching his portal from the National Library of Medicine references information in MedlinePlus, AIDSinfo, Medline/PubMed, LactMed, HSDB, Natural Standard, TOXLINE, DailyMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, PubChem, NIAID Anti-HIV/OI Database, ChemIDplus, Drugs@FDA, DEA, and USA.gov.   Provides links to additional resources. Basic information on prescription and over-the-counter medications is from American Society of Health-System Pharmacists's AHFS® Consumer Medication Information.

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

http://nccam.nih.gov/

Resources for health professionals and the public to better understand CAM.    Health Topics Ato Z lists available factsheets, including herbs and various preparations. Safe Use of Dietary Supplements in NCCAM Clinical Digest (January 2012) lists resources for consumers and health providers.