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Pharmacopedia is a free, open medical reference. This page points you to the most useful starting places depending on what you are trying to do.
If you are new to Pharmacopedia
Start with About:Pharmacopedia for what this site is, who runs it, and how it is written.
Reading the site
Every medicine and problem page in Pharmacopedia is organized for multiple reader audiences. Look for the perspective that matches what you are trying to learn:
- Clinician perspective: pharmacology, dosing, monitoring, interactions, and clinical evidence.
- Patient perspective: what taking the medicine is like, what to expect, what to watch for, what other readers have reported.
- Traditional perspective: the historical, cultural, and ethnobotanical context of the medicine.
- Researcher perspective: mechanism details, primary literature, ongoing questions.
Every non-trivial claim links to a source. Where a citation is not yet available, the page is marked [citation needed] rather than left implicit.
Creating an account
You can read everything without an account. An account lets you submit proposed edits, complete assessments, build a private medical timeline at Special:MyLifeStory, and submit reader-experience reports on medicines you have taken.
Contributing
Pharmacopedia uses a propose-review-approve workflow. Submitted edits are reviewed by a qualified human reviewer before they become visible. If you would like to contribute as an editor, reviewer, or content author, email mark@pharmacopedia.wiki.
Reporting an adverse experience
If you have experienced a problem with a medicine, you can submit a reader-experience report on that medicine's page. See Pharmacopedia:Adverse Event Reporting for what that feature is, what it is not, and where to file an official report with the FDA or your national authority if needed.
Medical emergencies
This site is not the place to get help in a medical emergency. If you are in immediate danger, call 911 (United States) or your local emergency services. For overdose or poisoning, call Poison Control at 1-800-222-1222 (United States).
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Questions
For anything not answered above, email mark@pharmacopedia.wiki.
Effective date: pending Mark Elliott, MD sign-off.