- NCCAM Clearinghouse responds to email queries in English or Spanish. Their staff researches your question using federal databases of peer-reviewed scientific and medical literature and sends the results to you, free of charge.
- Medline Plus offers health information from the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources. A recent valuable addition is extensive information on herbal medicines from the Natural Standard database. Search on a particular therapy and get a wealth of good online resources.
- CAM on PubMed is an easy-to-use free online database where you can find scientific studies on the use of complementary therapies for various conditions.
- WholeHealthMD has a variety of easy-to-use ways to find information on complementary therapies. You can click on Healing Centers to search for information by diagnosis or condition, or click on Reference Library to look up specific therapies.
There are many other great resources that cover specific complementary or alternative therapies, such as HerbMed for herbal or botanical medicines. One way to find resources on specific therapies is to search Google using the name of the therapy.
In addition, associations for specific conditions, such as the National Cancer Institute, often have valuable information on complementary therapies specific to a diagnosis.
Expert contributor: Mary Jo Kreitzer, Ph.D., R.N.
Created: March 2006
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