East-West Medicine Resources 

Provide high quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies.

A subset of NLM's PubMed, which provides access to citations on complementary and alternative medicine from the MEDLINE database and additional life science journals. It also includes links to many full-text

provides access to bibliographic citations and abstracts from published, international, and scientific literature on dietary supplements.

Provide databases and various information on traditional Chinese medicine by the Institute of Information on Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences

The Center was established in 1993 with a vision to provide healthcare that is safe, effective, affordable, and accessible through the integration of the best of Chinese medicine with Western medicine.

As a campus-wide program committed to the study and application of integrative medicine, CCIM sponsors education, facilitates research and promotes appropriate practice of complementary, alternative, and mind-body medicine.

Established in 1998 as part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NCCAM's charge is to stimulate, develop, and support research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for the benefit...

Established in March 2000 to address issues related to access and delivery of CAM, priorities for research, and the need for better education of consumers and health care professionals about CAM.

Rakel, 2nd ed. Definitive clinical reference for the rapidly growing field of integrative medicine

Boca Raton, Fla. : Taylor & Francis, 2005

A five-year plan about the mission, vision, and priority setting, goals, investing in research, training CAM investigators, expanding outreach, and advancing the organization by National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

A five-year strategic plan for 2001-2005 by National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

by History and Special Collections, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA ; curator, Irwin Ziment.

provides neutral access to the data underlying the medicinal use of herbs and comprehensive access to the available scientific publications and data on each herb.

Provide various information on traditional Chinese medicine, including history, theories, acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, integrative medicine, case reports, health preservation & prevention, education, research, regulations, etc.

An online exhibit that highlights four herbals that are milestones in the history of Western herbal medicine: ""The Vienna Dioscorides"" (De Materia Medica, 512 A.D.); The Badianus...

A guide to practitioners who are interested in adding one or more of the methods being discussed to their therapeutic armamentarium. Focus is on manipulation, movement therapies, mindbody therapies,...

A good starting point for sources of information on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative, complementary, innovative, integrative therapies.

A virtual museum to display the history, culture, relics, practice, research and education sponsored by Beijing Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Beijing Science ＆Technology Society.

Archive of publications on CAM research at the NIH by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine since 2003

Electronic Texts

Provides resources on complimentary and alternative medicine developed as part of the Educational Development for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (EDCAM) Project.