Information about natural products, dietary supplements, medicinal plants, or other complementary or alternative medicines is available from information sources listed below.
Before starting any supplement, ask your doctor or pharmacist for information. Natural products and dietary supplements may interact with medicine you take.
- NIH Resources
- MedlinePlus® Complementary and Alternative Medicine and pages listed in Related Topics box
- NLM® and Office of Dietary Supplements Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD)
- NLM PubMed® search with PubMed Complementary Medicine filter
- NLM Dietary Supplements PubMed Subset
- Type dietsuppl [sb] to get a list of all PubMed articles indexed under this subheading, or
- Add dietsuppl [sb] to your search, or
- Limit your PubMed search by selecting "Limits", then "Dietary Supplements" Subset
- NIH National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
- NIH/NCI Office of Cancer and Complementary Medicine
- NCI Cancer.gov Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- ClinicalTrials.gov Complementary OR Alternative OR Integrative trials
- NIH Office of Dietary Supplements homepage and Making Decisions
- NIH SeniorHealth.gov Complementary Health Approaches
- Other Government & Non-Governmental Agencies
- National Agricultural Library Food and Nutrition Information Center Dietary Supplements page
- Nutrition.gov Dietary Supplements and Safety and Health Claims
- FDA Dietary Supplements page
- FDA Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration: Guidance for Industry - Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration
- FDA Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition Dietary Supplements Overview
- USP Herbal Medicines Compendium
- Non-governmental, Fee-based Databases