Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
CAM resources online
Searching PubMed for articles on CAM
Locating additional CAM resources in the McGoogan Library
- Complete
German Commission E monographs: therapeutic guide to herbal medicines
http://www.herbalgram.org/iherb/commissione/index.html
- Referenced herbal monographs. Some linked content is available
to members only.
- Herbmed.org
-- professional level information
http://www.herbmed.org
- Includes herbal medicine monographs composed of brief
statements concerning relevant publications and links to the associated
MEDLINE records. The "dynamic updates" section provides links
that retrieve the current results for pre-designed MEDLINE searches. Much of the content is only available to subscribers or on a pay-per-day basis.
- InteliHealth
-- professional and consumer level
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/8124/8124.html
- Select
"Complementary and Alternative Medicine" under the "Healthy Lifestyles" and then scroll down to click on the "Index of Herbal Medicines and Supplements." The index includes herb
and supplement monographs. References are provided.
- International Bibliographic
Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS)
http://ods.od.nih.gov/Health_Information/IBIDS.aspx
- Search by keyword for journal articles on the topic
of dietary supplements (including vitamins, minerals, herbal and
botanical supplements). You can limit results to "consumer references" or "peer reviewed citations only." Journal
article citations and abstracts are drawn from three databases: AGRICOLA, AGRIS International, CAB, and MEDLINE.
- MedlinePlus
http://www.medlineplus.gov
- MedlinePlus provides herb and supplement information from Natural Standard. Click on "Drugs & Supplements" and then click the letter of interest under the "Herbs and Supplements" heading.
- MICROMEDEX ® Databases -- authorized users only
- RxList.com
-- professional and consumer level
http://www.rxlist.com
- Drug and alternative medicine monographs. Click
on "Alternative Medicines" link to the right of the search box.
- Rxmed -- professional level
http://www.rxmed.com/
- includes a browsable collection of herbal medicine
and dietary supplement monographs.
- PubMed with LinkOut to Full-text -- authorized users only -- or
- PubMed with UNMC's LinkOut Buttons but NO Full-Text Access - FREE
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=uneblib
- "The National Center for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine (NCCAM) and The National Library of Medicine (NLM) have created
CAM on PubMed, a special subset of the NLM's PubMed MEDLINE". To
limit your PubMed search results to articles mentioning complementary
and alternative medicine, use one of the PubMed links above and
then:
- click on the word "Limits" below the search box
- select "Complementary Medicine" from the "Subsets" dropdown menu
- click the "Go" button.
- choose "Abstract" from the "Summary" drop down menu above the results
list and hit the "Display" button to see UNMC buttons.
- Important Note: the "Complementary
Medicine" limit will apply until you uncheck the box that
will appear under the search box next to the word "Limits."
- Use the Library's online catalog, Helix, to perform MeSH (medical subject heading)
searches using the following MeSH headings:
- Dietary Supplements
- Complementary Therapies
- Phytotherapy
- Plants, Medicinal
- Pharmacognosy
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- or
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- Review the MeSH topics assigned to the following call numbers and
browse the areas of interest on the Library's shelves:
- QV
752 - QV 770
- WB
890-WB 962
- QU
145
- or number for specific supplemented nutrient
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