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WebMD provides valuable health information, tools for managing your health, and support to those who seek information. You can trust that our content is timely and credible.
This site provides information on herbal medicine (as distinct from herbal medicines) sometimes also called phytotherapy.
The Institute for Traditional Medicine is a non-profit organization in Portland, OR. ITM is dedicated to furthering the knowledge, research and education of traditional medicine systems from around the world.
This website allows you to search for practitioners nationwide (by location, specialty, language, name, style of acupuncture), read articles on current topics in Oriental medicine, find information on state laws and acupuncture schools, and provides numerous links to other useful sites.
Includes articles and summaries of research projects organized by subject categories. Also includes acupuncture treatment protocols, a practitioner forum, a directory of acupuncturists, and contact information for acupuncture laws by state.
This site includes articles from current and past issues of Acupuncture Today, listings of Chinese herbs (by common name) with information about dosage, indications, and precautions, information on vitamins, minerals, and supplements, articles on using acupuncture to treat specific conditions, and many links to other informative websites. It also includes an acupuncturist locator searchable by name or city and general information on acupuncture.
The Institute for Traditional Medicine (ITM) has included many recent articles from their publications about Chinese medicine and herbal treatments on this site. Articles are also available about the history of Chinese medicine, general information about acupuncture and herbal therapies, and lots of articles on herb safety, interactions, and therapeutic uses.
This Australian website has a large section on acupuncture and provides pain education and management information and lots of information on fibromyalgia.
An herbal database and an evidence-based information resource by Alternative Medicine Foundation, Inc. Provides scientific data underlying the use of herbs. Searchable by scientific or common name of herbs.
http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/index.html
Includes abstracts of articles from Journal of the American Dietetic Association; ADA’s Nationwide Nutrition Network, and national registered dietitian referral service; and links to food and nutrition resources.
Merck & Co., Inc. is a global research-driven pharmaceutical company. Merck discovers, develops, manufactures and markets vaccines and medicines to address unmet medical needs. Merck also publishes unbiased health information as a not-for-profit service.
The National Library of Medicine has announced the release of the NLM Drug Information Portal. The site is located at http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov. This resource provides the public, healthcare professionals, and researchers with a gateway to current, accurate, and understandable drug information from the National Library of Medicine and other key government agencies. The Drug Information Portal offers a varied selection of resources and focused topics in medicine and drug-related information, with links to individual resources with drug information and summaries tailored to various audiences. General drug categories from MeSH are also included in the Drug Portal records.
More than 12,000 drugs are available for searching. The search interface is straightforward, requiring only a drug name as a search term, and a spellchecker is provided. Information buttons and balloon pop-ups guide the user by providing helpful hints or a description of the resource and links to the source website. Search results include links to related drug information in MedlinePlus®, AIDSinfo®, Medline/PubMed®, LactMed, HSDB®, Dietary Supplements Labels Database, TOXLINE®, DailyMed®, ClinicalTrials.gov, PubChem, NIAID Anti-HIV/OI Database, ChemIDplus®, Drugs@FDA, DEA, and USA.gov.
E-Books & Database: PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html PubMed Tutorial
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/faq.html PubMed FAQ.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/lists.html The Online Book Page, University of Pennsylvania. This is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet.
http://www.bibliomania.com/2/1/66/113/frameset.html Complete Herbal in Bibliomania website, a free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts
http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/dictionary/A-E.htm National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse, a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health.
The National Academies Press offers many titles in electronic Adobe PDF format. Hundreds of these books can be downloaded for free by the chapter or the entire book, while others are available for purchase.
http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/ Free Books for Doctors promotes free access to medical books. See list of 650 titles on sidebar. Registration is required to access some books. A few books only list the table of contents
Merck provides all of The Merck Manuals on a not-for-profit basis as a service to the community
Medifocus eBook, Current Medical Guides on Major diseases and conditions. Includes free full text description previews of topics listed on the sidebar.
http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/ehapplace/chapter0/deluxe.html Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology, 17th Edition, the Anatomy & Physiology Place
http://mblc.state.ma.us/books/ebooks/index.php NetLibrary provides access to online books enabling you to simply key in the author's name or a word from the title, the ISBN, or subject. Valid Massachusetts public library card required.
The Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database provides evidence-based information on Natural Medicines.
http:/www.kidneyatlas.org Atlas of Diseases of the Kidney consists of five volumes of texts with images, searchable in numerous ways.
http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/webpath.html This popular web resource includes over 1900 images along with text, tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items for self-assessment that demonstrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings associated with human disease conditions.
http://www.drugdigest.org/DD/Interaction/ChooseDrugs Searchable primarily by common name, this site allows you to select two or more herbs or drugs from a list and check them for interactions with each other. Interactions are rated according to the level of documentation and potential severity.
Journals The Journal of Chinese Medicine is recognised as the foremost English language journal on all aspects of Chinese medicine.
The American Journal of Chinese Medicine, which is defined in its broadest sense possible, publishes original articles and essays relating to traditional or ethnomedicine of all cultures.
Liebert Online delivers electronic access to peer-reviewed journals published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine, an international forum for evidence-based practices
American Botanical Council. Your source for reliable medicine information
Townsend Letter, the examiner of alternative medicine
The New England Journal of Medicine
The Journal of the American Medical Association
Journal Watch
Government and Organizations:
California Acupuncture Board
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) is the Federal Government's lead agency for scientific research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
The Division of Specialized Information Services, National Library of Medicine (NLM), creates information resources and services in toxicology, environmental health, chemistry, and HIV/AIDS. Another component of SIS, the Office of Outreach and Special Populations, seeks to improve access to quality and accurate health information by underserved and special populations.
Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental
National Certification Commission for Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine
Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
Bookstores/Publishers:
Redwing Book Company specializes in distributing books on popular as well as technical resources for students and practitioners of a variety of Eastern and Western healing arts.
Textbooks for practitioners of Chinese medicine, osteopathy, and other forms of bodywork. Purchase books online, read reviews and author bios.
Blue Poppy Enterprises is the world's largest English-language publisher of books and educational products about Chinese medicine and acupuncture.
Amazon.com is one of the most famous online retailer.
AbeBooks is home to over 13,500 professional booksellers from around the world. You can search for a bookseller by name, keyword, or location.
BookFinder.com is an one-stop ecommerce search engine that searches over 125 million books for sale—new, used, rare, out-of-print, and textbooks.
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