EAST WEST COLLEGE
of Natural Medicine
Herbal Medicine & Pharmacology Subject Guide
Web Resources
About Herbs & Botanicals (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
Chinese Herbal Medicine Dictionary (Complementary & Healing University)
Chinese Medicine Specimen Database (Hong Kong Baptist University Library)
Daily Med: Current Medication Information (National Institutes of Health) search by drug name, manufacturer or drug class. Provides detailed information from drug labels
Dietary Supplement Information (National Institutes of Health)
Drug Digest (from Express Scripts – a prescription benefit plan provider concerned with drug safety) search by drug name, drug category or health condition
Drug Information Portal (National Institutes of Health) Provides detailed summaries with drug information, negative outcomes, articles and research studies
Henriette’s Herbal Homepage (Henriette Kress, Herbalist – large medicinal herb database since 1995)
HerbMedPro Database (American Botanical Council)
Medicinal Plant Images Database (Hong Kong Baptist University)
National Chinese Medicine Integrated Database (Ctr. for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology)
Includes all aspects of TCM including formulas, herbs and herbal ingredients, drugs, and diseases
Native American Ethnobotany (University of Michigan)
Includes information about food, drugs, dyes, and fibers derived from plants by native people).
Natural Medical Protocols for Doctors (From Natural Opinion – a natural medical information company)
Video
Herbs that Release the Exterior
Herbs Review: Taste, Temperature, Channels
Audio
Journals
Chinese Medicine Journal – (Open access with Full-text articles, Peer-Reviewed)
Botanical Studies (Open access, Full-text articles, Peer-Reviewed)
Ethnobotany Research & Applications (Open access, Full-text, Peer-Reviewed)
Journal of Ethnobiology & Ethnomedicine (Open access, Full-text, Peer-Reviewed)
More Journal Options
To access our online journal collection, please search ProQuest
Browse the EWC Library Shelves
Check in sections QV 4 Pharmacology, QV 766-770 Medicinal plants (plants with medicinal properties) and WB 74 and WB 925 Herbal medicine (works focusing on diseases and their treatment with medicinal plants and on the practice of herbalism and herbal medicine).
Books
Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica - WB 74.1 .B467c 2004
Chinese Herbal Medicine: Formulas & Strategies – WB 74.5 .B467c 2009
Chinese Herbal Formulas & Applications – WB 74 .C446c 2009
Chinese Medical Herbology & Pharmacology – WB 74 .C446cm 2004
Chinese Herbal Patent Medicines – WB 74 .C446cm 2004
Understanding Pharmacology for Health Professionals – QV 4 .T875u 2016
Integrated Pharmacology – QV 770 .JC6 .S647 2007