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Alternative and Complementary Medicine

 

Information about Alternative
& Complimentary Health Care

Alternative/Complimentary Medicine - http://nccam.nih.gov
This site is maintained by the National Institute of Health's. National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)  The goal of NCCAM is to research and provide information about complimentary and alternative healing practices.   Their website  provides access to information, research, news, and evaluations of complimentary and alternative medicine.
 
 
Information Resource: About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products - www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/11570.cfm
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center maintains a searchable list of herbs and botanicals.  The list is maintained by the Center's Integrative Medicine Service staff including a pharmacist and botanical expert.  Information is available for both consumers and medical professionals.

 

Try searching our catalog with these subject terms
Alternative Medicine
Naturopathy
Healing

Also try searching by the name of the disease.  For Example...

Heart diseases alternative treatment
Cancer alternative treatment

 

Magazine & Journal Articles
You can find magazine and journal articles in the database Health Reference Center. When you search Health Reference Center, you will be able to retrieve not only a list of magazine and journal articles, but also, in many cases, the actual articles themselves.

Another good source of citations is www.pubmed.gov.

If the full text is not available, contact the Reference Department at 781-275-9440 to request the full article.