Subject - Health

This guide will help you to find and use all the available useful sources to help you get just what you need fast!

Starting Your Search

Here you can access helpful catalogue searches, where we've completed some of the first steps to get you started in your searching.

• Alternative Medicine
• Complementary Medicine
• Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Homeopathy or Homoeopathy
• Medicinal Herbs
• Naturopathy

​TIP - If you are want to search for all derivatives of Naturopathy, such as naturopath, naturopathic, and naturopathically, search tools will automatically find these variations if you use truncation (naturopath*).

Featured resources

Naturopathy, practice, effectiveness, economics & safety (2022) is a Health Technology Assessment (HTA) compiled by the World Naturopathic Federation providing an evidence-based summary of naturopathic practice and the safety, economics and effectiveness of naturopathic care. The scope of the HTA was informed by research conducted by the international naturopathic community over the last thirty years. Over 2000 peer-reviewed scientific articles of which more than 300 clinical studies involving over 100 different health populations are outlined in the HTA.

nPod (Naturopathic Product Online Database) is a searchable platform of professional prescribing information for Naturopathy, Chinese Medicine, Western Herbal Medicine, Homeopathy and Nutrition.  Designed for Australian and New Zealand practitioners, you can:

• - search for a substance, product or illness
• - compare up to 5 different products at once
• - print directly from the prescribing list for your clients 
• - add and save your individual protocols for future use
• - find a specific product, RRP and distributors
• - filter to view specific specific product types (e.g. nutritional or herbal)

nPod also provides each graduate a year's free subscription as a graduation gift! You just need to email nPod at info@npod.com.au upon graduation.