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RxCUI Directory

An RxCUI is the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s universal ID for one drug concept — an ingredient, a brand name, or a specific strength-and-form combination. Every concept page here connects that identifier to its FDA-listed products, package NDCs, NADAC pricing, and HCPCS billing codes, so other pages on this site can link a code straight to its meaning.

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Compiled from the public NLM RxNorm vocabulary and the FDA openFDA NDC directory. Editorial policy

One page for every drug concept in current FDA listings. Most are clinical drugs (TTY SCD: ingredient + strength + dose form, like ibuprofen 200 MG oral tablet) and branded drugs (SBD: the same drug under its brand name), plus multi-drug packs. The clinical drug is the anchor level where products, package NDCs, pricing, and billing line up.

Key Stats

16,643
Drug concepts
83,174
FDA products mapped
368,539
Package NDCs
Jul 14, 2026
Source data

Our RxCUI Database: Every Drug Concept Behind Current FDA Listings

What an RxCUI is, what a TTY is, and how to read every code in this directory — a two-minute primer. New to RxCUIs? Start here

Two things run this whole directory: the RxCUI and its TTY. An RxCUI is just a number — one number for one exact drug concept in RxNorm (the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s standard drug vocabulary). But the numbers all look alike: 5640, 198440, 310965 — nothing in the digits tells you what any of them is.

That is the job of the TTY (term type).

The TTY is the label that says whether an RxCUI is a bare ingredient, a brand name, or an exact ingredient + strength + form. Same-looking numbers, completely different meanings — the TTY is the key. So the habit for every RxCUI is simple: read the number, then read the TTY.

Same Medicine, Several RxCUIs — the TTY Tells Them Apart

Ibuprofen isn’t one code. Each layer of it is its own RxCUI, and only the TTY says which layer you’re looking at:

5640TTY INibuprofen — the bare ingredient
310965TTY SCDibuprofen 200 MG oral tablet — one exact clinical drug
153010TTY BN“Advil” — the brand name is its own RxCUI, tagged BN
153008TTY SBDibuprofen 200 MG Oral Tablet [Advil] — the same clinical drug under its brand — is yet another, tagged SBD
The concept types (TTYs) you’ll see in this directory

Every browse row below shows its TTY — click any code to jump to its definition here.

The Active Ingredient

IN · PIN · MIN — the substance itself, before strength or form.
IN
Ingredient

The active drug substance itself — no strength, form, or brand attached. Example: ibuprofen.

PIN
Precise ingredient

A specific form of an ingredient, such as a particular salt. Example: ibuprofen lysine.

MIN
Ingredient combination

Two or more active ingredients named together. Example: amlodipine / valsartan.

Generic (Clinical) Drugs

SCD and friends — ingredient + strength + dose form, unbranded.
SCD
Clinical drug

Ingredient + strength + dose form, unbranded. Example: ibuprofen 200 MG oral tablet.

SCDC
Clinical drug component

An ingredient at a specific strength, before a dose form is added.

SCDF
Clinical dose form

An ingredient in a dose form, without a specific strength.

SCDG
Clinical drug group

A grouping of related clinical drugs.

Brand-Name Drugs

BN · SBD and friends — trade names and branded drugs.
BN
Brand name

A trade name for a drug. Example: Advil.

SBD
Branded drug

Brand + ingredient + strength + form. Example: ibuprofen 200 MG oral tablet [Advil].

SBDF
Branded dose form

A brand in a dose form, without a specific strength.

SBDG
Branded drug group

A grouping of related branded drugs.

Multi-Drug Packs

GPCK · BPCK — sets of drugs packaged and sold together.
GPCK
Generic pack

A set of generic drugs packaged together, such as a dose-taper pack.

BPCK
Branded pack

A branded multi-drug pack.

Dose-Form Vocabulary

DF · DFG — tablets, solutions, and their broader families.
DF
Dose form

A form a medicine takes — tablet, solution, injection, and so on.

DFG
Dose-form group

A broader family of related dose forms.

🕸️ Reading a Concept Web

This is the interactive map you’ll find on every concept page — here shown for ibuprofen. One RxCUI never lives alone: follow the path from the raw ingredient down to the exact strength-and-form concepts FDA products carry. Hover or focus any chip for what it means.
The example concept Ibuprofen RxCUI 5640

Every web starts here: one RxCUI, one fixed meaning in the RxNorm vocabulary.

  1. Brand names (BN) 1

    BN, a brand name: the trade name alone — no strength, no form.

    • Advil 153010
  2. Dose form (DF) 1

    DF, a dose form: the bare form these come in — Oral Tablet is one concept shared by every oral-tablet drug, not unique to ibuprofen.

    • Oral Tablet 317541
  3. Clinical drugs (SCD) 4

    SCD, a clinical drug: ingredient + strength + dose form. The concept FDA product data attaches to most precisely.

    • Ibuprofen 200 MG Oral Tablet 310965
    • Ibuprofen 400 MG Oral Tablet 197805
    • Ibuprofen 600 MG Oral Tablet 197806
    • Ibuprofen 800 MG Oral Tablet 197807
  4. Branded drugs (SBD) 4

    SBD, a branded drug: that exact clinical drug under a brand name.

    • Ibuprofen 200 MG Oral Tablet [Advil] 153008
    • Ibuprofen 200 MG Oral Tablet [Genpril] 206886
    • Ibuprofen 600 MG Oral Tablet [Ibu] 206913
    • Ibuprofen 800 MG Oral Tablet [Ibu] 206917

A trimmed illustration for teaching. Every chip here is a real, verified RxNorm concept with its RxCUI printed. A real concept page draws the live web for its own RxCUI, one chip per stored related concept.
These are official RxNorm vocabulary relationships: how concepts name and organize the same drug. They do not establish therapeutic equivalence or substitutability. Two concepts appearing in one web is never a statement that products can be swapped.

Browse Concepts — 16,643 concepts in the current snapshot

TTY

Ordered by how many FDA products carry each concept. Clinical drugs (SCD: one exact ingredient + strength + dose form, such as ibuprofen 200 MG oral tablet) and branded drugs (SBD: the same drug under its brand name) lead the list, because those are the concepts FDA product listings name. The TTY column shows each row’s type — click any code to see what it means.

RxCUI Official name TTY Concept type Products Packages
1942189 Benzocaine 0.2 MG/MG Oral Gel [LolliCaine] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
1944529 Abuse-Deterrent oxycodone hydrochloride 15 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
1944535 Abuse-Deterrent oxycodone hydrochloride 15 MG Oral Tablet [Roxybond] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
1944538 Abuse-Deterrent oxycodone hydrochloride 30 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
1944540 Abuse-Deterrent oxycodone hydrochloride 30 MG Oral Tablet [Roxybond] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
1944541 Abuse-Deterrent oxycodone hydrochloride 5 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
1944543 Abuse-Deterrent oxycodone hydrochloride 5 MG Oral Tablet [Roxybond] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
197436 Captopril 25 MG / hydrochlorothiazide 15 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
197437 Captopril 25 MG / hydrochlorothiazide 25 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
197438 Captopril 50 MG / hydrochlorothiazide 15 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
197439 Captopril 50 MG / hydrochlorothiazide 25 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
197553 Cyclosporine 25 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
197855 Ketoprofen 50 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
198103 Pimozide 2 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
198153 Colchicine 0.5 MG / probenecid 500 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
198264 Theophylline 400 MG Extended Release Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
198284 Timolol 10 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
198285 Timolol 20 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
198286 Timolol 5 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
1987646 Tretinoin 0.0006 MG/MG Topical Gel [Retin-A] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
199071 Benzocaine 15 MG Oral Lozenge SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
199107 Pyrantel 180 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
1991412 24 ML nivolumab 10 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
1991413 24 ML nivolumab 10 MG/ML Injection [Opdivo] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
1995288 Cocaine hydrochloride 40 MG/ML Nasal Solution SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
1998483 Doxycycline hyclate 200 MG Injection SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
199858 Phenol 15 MG/ML Topical Solution SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
199870 Capsaicin 0.00025 MG/MG Topical Gel SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
2000133 Vancomycin 25 MG/ML Oral Solution [Firvanq] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
2000136 Vancomycin 50 MG/ML Oral Solution [Firvanq] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
2001564 BX Rating 24 HR methylphenidate hydrochloride 18 MG Extended Release Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
204491 Sodium tetradecyl sulfate 30 MG/ML Injectable Solution SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
2047766 24 HR metoprolol succinate 100 MG Extended Release Oral Capsule [Kapspargo] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
2047769 24 HR metoprolol succinate 200 MG Extended Release Oral Capsule [Kapspargo] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
2047772 24 HR metoprolol succinate 25 MG Extended Release Oral Capsule [Kapspargo] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
2047775 24 HR metoprolol succinate 50 MG Extended Release Oral Capsule [Kapspargo] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
2049247 Levonorgestrel 1.5 MG Oral Tablet [PostDay One-Step] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
2050977 Ethanol 0.74 ML/ML Topical Spray SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
2054973 Stiripentol 250 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
2054979 Stiripentol 250 MG Oral Capsule [Diacomit] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
2054981 Stiripentol 500 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
2054983 Stiripentol 500 MG Oral Capsule [Diacomit] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
2055011 Stiripentol 500 MG Powder for Oral Suspension SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
2055014 Stiripentol 500 MG Powder for Oral Suspension [Diacomit] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
2055015 Stiripentol 250 MG Powder for Oral Suspension SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
2055016 Stiripentol 250 MG Powder for Oral Suspension [Diacomit] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
2056456 Camphor 0.005 MG/MG / menthol 0.01 MG/MG Topical Ointment SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
2056897 Everolimus 1 MG Oral Tablet [Zortress] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
205769 Ciprofloxacin 250 MG Oral Tablet [Cipro] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
205770 Ciprofloxacin 500 MG Oral Tablet [Cipro] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
2058147 Riluzole 5 MG/ML Oral Suspension SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
2058845 Levorphanol tartrate 3 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 4 4 View →
206819 Lorazepam 2 MG/ML Injectable Solution [Ativan] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
206820 Lorazepam 4 MG/ML Injectable Solution [Ativan] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
206880 Isotretinoin 10 MG Oral Capsule [Accutane] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
206883 Isotretinoin 20 MG Oral Capsule [Accutane] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
206902 Isotretinoin 40 MG Oral Capsule [Accutane] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
206967 Ketamine 10 MG/ML Injectable Solution [Ketalar] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
207349 Paroxetine hydrochloride 20 MG Oral Tablet [Paxil] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →
207350 Paroxetine hydrochloride 30 MG Oral Tablet [Paxil] SBD Branded drug 4 4 View →

Pages exist only for concepts observed on real FDA product listings.

Where does this data come from?
Concept identity, names, and relationships come from the NLM RxNorm vocabulary; product and package mappings from the FDA openFDA NDC Directory. Each directory generation is validated and published as one immutable snapshot. This product uses publicly available data from the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; NLM is not responsible for the product and does not endorse or recommend this or any other product.