Databases | URL | Summary |
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American Botanical Council | The American Botanical Council provides a searchable database titled “ABC Clinical Guide to Herbs” that includes monographs, clinical overviews, and patient information sheets for various herbs. While access to this database requires a paid subscription, the resource also offers free databases with information on herbal and plant-based ingredients, herb profiles and select herbal monographs. | |
Caremark Drug Interactions | Copyrighted through Gold Standard, the Caremark Drug Interactions database includes a drug-interaction search tool. Reports are provided for interactions between drugs, CAM, food, alcohol, and other substances. | |
Danish National Drug Interaction Database | The Danish Medicines Agency provides a searchable interactive database for prescription drugs, herbal remedies, vitamins, minerals, and grapefruit juice. | |
Drug Information- formerly named DrugDigest | https://www.express-scripts.com/medco/consumer/ehealth/druginfo/dlmain.jsp?WC=N | The Drug Information database includes a search tool to find monographs and information on medications, herbal drugs, and supplements. While several drugs are indexed in the database, the majority of drugs do not have a monograph available. |
Drug Product Database | The Drug Product Database is maintained by Health Canada through the Government of Canada and contains a searchable database for drugs authorized for sale in Canada. While several drugs are indexed in the database, many do not have product monographs available. | |
DrugBank | The Drugbank database provides information on drugs and drug/chemical target information. | |
Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ETCM) | ETCM is an online searchable database that provides data on the ingredients, herbs, and formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine. | |
PharmGKB | PharmGKB is a searchable pharmacogenomic database targeted for researchers that provides data on the relationship between genetic variations and drug response. Molecules, genes, or variants can be searched within the database. | |
Traditional Chinese Medicine Information Database (TCM-ID) | In its second revision, the TCM-ID database provides information on the relationships between the herbs and formulas and the pharmacology or biochemistry of Traditional Chinese Medicine. | |
Requiring Paid Subscription | ||
Clinical Pharmacology | Clinical Pharmacology is a drug information resource that is powered by Clinical Key and owned by Gold Standard. The database contains monographs for prescription drugs as well as CAM products. | |
DrDrugs | https://www.skyscape.com/product/drdrugs-drug-guide-for-physicians | DrDrugs provides a mobile and web-based database of monographs for drugs and herbal products. |
Epocrates Rx (plus or pro) | Epocrates offers a web-based and mobile version of their database of drug monographs and interaction reports. | |
Lexi-Natural (includes LexiComp) | http://webstore.lexi.com/Store/Individual-Databases/Lexi-Natural-Products | Lexi-Natural is part of the Lexicomp database and includes drug monographs and patient handouts for both prescription drugs and CAM products. |
MedicinesComplete (includes Herbal Medicines; formerly known as the British National Formulary) | https://about.medicinescomplete.com/publication/herbal-medicines/ | Developed by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, MedicinesComplete provides a database of drug and CAM monographs and drug interaction reports. |
Micromedex (includes DrugDex, Drug-Reax, AltMedDex) | IBM Micromedex provides a searchable database of drug and CAM monographs as well as disease and toxicology | |
Natural Medicines (formerly Natural Medicine Comprehensive Database (NMCD) and Natural Standard Database (NSD)) | Natural Medicines is a database with several sub-databases on databases on food, herbs and supplements, herbal combinations, drug manufacturers, sports medicine, health and wellness and a comparative effectiveness database. The database also features tools including an interaction checker, effectiveness checker, nutrient depletion, pregnancy and lactation checker and adverse event checker. | |
OncoRx Database (called Onco-Rx as a website, and OncoRx-MI as a mobile app) | Onco Rx is a database of interaction information for oncology drugs, chemotherapy regimens and CAM products. | |
PEPID Drug Information Database | PEPID Knowledgebase is a web-accessible database hosted through PEPID Connect. Features of PEPID Connect include: Drug interaction checker; drug-allergy checker; pill identification; IV Compatibility tool; lab manuals; clinical calculators; drug database; differential diagnosis and symptom checker; news and alerts; PEPID PGx pharmacogenomic tool. | |
Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia | The Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia database contains drug guides and information on drug interactions. The database comes in a PDA format and also includes information on herbal supplements. |