About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Integrative Medicine Service
A free, continuously updated database of roughly 290 herbs, botanicals and supplements maintained by Memorial Sloan Kettering pharmacists. Each entry cites primary literature and lists constituents, purported uses, adverse effects and drug interactions, so readers can check claims themselves. This is the reference tool oncology pharmacists actually use, and it is the practical antidote to marketing claims: every monograph separates traditional/purported use from what trials show, and flags herb-drug interactions and contraindications with citations.
More resources on Naturopathy
Alternative Medicine: A Critical Assessment of 202 Modalities
Springer reference in which a former professor of complementary medicine assesses 202 therapies, naturopathy among them, on a fixed template: plausibility, evidence, risks, cost. Shows readers how to appraise any modality rather than accepting or rejecting it wholesale.
Nature's Path: A History of Naturopathic Healing in America
Academic history from Johns Hopkins University Press tracing American naturopathy from nineteenth-century hydropathy and Benedict Lust through licensure fights to the present. Explains why the system holds the beliefs it does and how its institutions and politics were built.
Herbal Medicine: Biomolecular and Clinical Aspects (2nd Edition)
Peer-reviewed CRC Press volume hosted free by the National Library of Medicine. Twenty-two chapters examine specific herbs at the biomolecular level — constituents, mechanisms, pharmacokinetics, trial evidence, toxicity — teaching readers how botanical effects are actually established or disproved.
WHO Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants (Volumes 1–4)
Four volumes of World Health Organization monographs on medicinal plants, free in the WHO institutional repository. Each covers botany, identity tests, constituents, documented pharmacology, clinical data, contraindications and dosage — the reference standard national regulators build their own herbal pharmacopoeias from.
Naturopathy: What You Need To Know (NCCIH)
The US National Institutes of Health's overview of naturopathy: how the system developed, the three tiers of practitioner training and licensure, the modalities used, safety caveats, and what research exists. Gives readers a neutral baseline before deeper study.