Integrative and Culinary Medicine Resources
Dr. Leslie Smith shares her favorite resources to learn more about integrative and culinary medicine:
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Search for any topic of interest.
- Most recent research is not always incorporated as quickly as other sites.
- Overall very user friendly and reasonably comprehensive.
- Free and open access.
Mayo Clinic
- Search for any topic of interest.
- Very friendly for patient browsing.
- Free and open access.
Kaiser Permanente
- Well organized list of many therapies grouped by category.
- Options to listen to the page being read to you: helpful for vision impaired.
- Free and open access.
Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
- Widely considered to be the most reliable and inclusive database currently available.
- Information curated by expert scientists and updated continuously with latest research data.
- Search functions include being able to identify herb-drug interactions, safety profiles based on pathology (is this therapy safe for you and your medical problems?), and looking for alternative or complementary therapies indicated by good evidence for a given medical problem (for example, what kinds of herbs can I take to help with GERD?).
- Requires a subscription.