WHAT Medicine offers the first online reference source on World Health and Asian Traditional Medicine. The database will be built as an ongoing resource for this field of research & practice. Abstracts of published studies are listed according to the following categories:

Abbreviations: BM = biomedicine, CHM = Chinese herbal medicine, IHM = Indian herbal medicine, JHM = Japanese herbal medicine, KHM = Korean herbal medicine, SSR = subjective symptom rating (e.g. using quality-of-life instruments), TCM = Traditional Chinese Medicine [incorporates both Chinese herbal medicine and other therapies such as acupuncture]