Drug and Pharmacology Resources: Herbs & Supplements

Natural Medicines offers quick access to comprehensive, evidence-based, peer-reviewed information on foods, herbs, supplements, and natural therapies. Database coverage includes efficacy, adverse effects, interactions, pregnancy, lactation, pharmacology, toxicology, dosing, standardization, and products tested by third-party laboratories. Patient handouts are available.

ConsumerLab.com provides comprehensive information about vitamin, herbal and other supplements, and nutritional products. Includes ConsumerLab.com's independent product evaluations, test results for ConsumerLab.com selected products and Approved Products from ConsumerLab.com’s Quality Certification Program, product recalls, and safety warnings. A science-based encyclopedia of natural products is also provided, including a drug-interaction database.

LiverTox is a free database that provides researchers, physicians, and patients with up-to-date and comprehensive information about drug-induced liver injury. It contains drug records with concise data on medications, herbals, and dietary supplements that can affect the liver. LiverTox also includes a case registry that allows users to submit relevant clinical cases to LiverTox and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The database Drugs and Lactation, or LactMed, is a database of drugs and other chemicals to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. It includes information on the levels of such substances in breast milk and infant blood, and the possible adverse effects in the nursing infant. Lactmed contains about 1,000 records on drugs, herbals and dietary supplements with references that are linked to their respective PubMed records. LactMed is endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics. LactMed is part of the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Toxicology Data Network (TOXNET®)