title: Finding information on herbal therapy: a guide to useful sources for clinicians.
abstract: Many resources are available to patients and healthcare practitioners interested in learning about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies such as herbal medicine. This article provides a comprehensive review of herbal medicine sources that are general in scope, clinically oriented, evidence based, and focused on Western phytomedicinals. Tables list 15 books and 8 Internet sites that fulfill these criteria. Information also is provided on 4 monographs, literature databases, and many related sources that may be of interest to clinicians incorporating herbal medicines into their practice or counseling patients on the topic.
authors.affiliation: University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash., USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kiefer
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gardiner
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wechkin
mesh_terms: D001877:Books; D016208:Databases, Factual; D029001:Herbal Medicine; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008517:Phytotherapy