Cochrane.org publishes comprehensive reviews about how well specific interventions work to prevent and treat illness and disease, along with plain language summaries of those reviews.
Cochrane Collaboration, a U.K. not-for-profit company, publishes the website. Groups of researchers, healthcare professionals, patients and caregivers from around the world review and summarize existing medical research.
Tips for use:
– Search all Cochrane reviews at Cochrane.org/evidence or browse an alphabetical index of reviews related to complementary, alternative and integrative medicine.
– Free Plain Language Summaries (PLS) written in everyday language link to full reviews that may require a subscription.
– See also an alphabetical list of hundreds of complementary, alternative and integrative therapies.
– PLS and key web pages are available in the 10 languages, including Spanish, listed at the top of the website. Some PLS are available in additional languages.
Reviewed October 2025