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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
2562822 Finerenone 10 MG Oral Tablet [Kerendia] SBD Branded drug 3 12 View →
2562824 Finerenone 20 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 3 12 View →
2562826 Finerenone 20 MG Oral Tablet [Kerendia] SBD Branded drug 3 12 View →
261266 Pioglitazone 15 MG Oral Tablet [Actos] SBD Branded drug 3 12 View →
261267 Pioglitazone 30 MG Oral Tablet [Actos] SBD Branded drug 3 12 View →
261268 Pioglitazone 45 MG Oral Tablet [Actos] SBD Branded drug 3 12 View →
2709470 24 HR metformin hydrochloride 1000 MG / sitagliptin phosphate 100 MG Extended Release Oral... SCD Clinical drug 3 12 View →
2709482 24 HR metformin hydrochloride 500 MG / sitagliptin phosphate 50 MG Extended Release Oral T... SCD Clinical drug 3 12 View →
2720069 Finerenone 40 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 3 12 View →
2720071 Finerenone 40 MG Oral Tablet [Kerendia] SBD Branded drug 3 12 View →
1801299 Microencapsulated potassium chloride 10 MEQ Extended Release Oral Tablet [Klor-Con] SBD Branded drug 3 11 View →
2043303 Eucalyptol 0.92 MG/ML / menthol 0.42 MG/ML / methyl salicylate 0.6 MG/ML / thymol 0.64 MG/... SBD Branded drug 3 11 View →
2475846 Vericiguat 10 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 3 11 View →
2475852 Vericiguat 10 MG Oral Tablet [Verquvo] SBD Branded drug 3 11 View →
2475854 Vericiguat 2.5 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 3 11 View →
2475856 Vericiguat 2.5 MG Oral Tablet [Verquvo] SBD Branded drug 3 11 View →
2475858 Vericiguat 5 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 3 11 View →
2475860 Vericiguat 5 MG Oral Tablet [Verquvo] SBD Branded drug 3 11 View →
315059 Desoximetasone 0.0005 MG/MG Topical Gel SCD Clinical drug 3 11 View →
347697 Helium 60 % / oxygen 40 % Gas for Inhalation SCD Clinical drug 3 11 View →
608844 Ketoconazole 10 MG/ML Medicated Shampoo [Nizoral] SBD Branded drug 3 11 View →
630923 Zinc oxide 113 MG/ML Topical Cream SCD Clinical drug 3 11 View →
832731 Microencapsulated potassium chloride 15 MEQ Extended Release Oral Tablet [Klor-Con] SBD Branded drug 3 11 View →
967558 Zinc oxide 113 MG/ML Topical Cream [Balmex] SBD Branded drug 3 11 View →
1046924 Atropine sulfate 0.00388 MG/ML / hyoscyamine sulfate 0.0207 MG/ML / phenobarbital 3.24 MG/... SBD Branded drug 3 10 View →
1368012 Alogliptin 25 MG Oral Tablet [Nesina] SBD Branded drug 3 10 View →
1368020 Alogliptin 6.25 MG Oral Tablet [Nesina] SBD Branded drug 3 10 View →
1368036 Alogliptin 12.5 MG Oral Tablet [Nesina] SBD Branded drug 3 10 View →
1918214 Chlorhexidine gluconate 20 MG/ML / isopropyl alcohol 0.7 ML/ML Medicated Pad SCD Clinical drug 3 10 View →
1928686 1 ML guselkumab 100 MG/ML Prefilled Syringe SCD Clinical drug 3 10 View →
1928689 1 ML guselkumab 100 MG/ML Prefilled Syringe [Tremfya] SBD Branded drug 3 10 View →
2118739 1 ML guselkumab 100 MG/ML Auto-Injector SCD Clinical drug 3 10 View →
2118741 1 ML guselkumab 100 MG/ML Auto-Injector [Tremfya] SBD Branded drug 3 10 View →
2693088 20 ML guselkumab 10 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 3 10 View →
2693092 20 ML guselkumab 10 MG/ML Injection [Tremfya] SBD Branded drug 3 10 View →
2693094 2 ML guselkumab 100 MG/ML Auto-Injector SCD Clinical drug 3 10 View →
2693095 2 ML guselkumab 100 MG/ML Auto-Injector [Tremfya] SBD Branded drug 3 10 View →
2693096 2 ML guselkumab 100 MG/ML Prefilled Syringe SCD Clinical drug 3 10 View →
2693097 2 ML guselkumab 100 MG/ML Prefilled Syringe [Tremfya] SBD Branded drug 3 10 View →
2711637 {2 (2 ML guselkumab 100 MG/ML Auto-Injector) } Pack GPCK Generic pack 3 10 View →
2711638 {2 (2 ML guselkumab 100 MG/ML Auto-Injector [Tremfya]) } Pack [Tremfya Induction Pack for... BPCK Branded pack 3 10 View →
2719470 Dicyclomine hydrochloride 40 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 3 10 View →
1247402 Aspirin 845 MG / caffeine 65 MG Oral Powder [BC Original Formula] SBD Branded drug 3 9 View →
1307409 Linaclotide 0.145 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 3 9 View →
1307415 Linaclotide 0.145 MG Oral Capsule [Linzess] SBD Branded drug 3 9 View →
1307419 Linaclotide 0.29 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 3 9 View →
1307421 Linaclotide 0.29 MG Oral Capsule [Linzess] SBD Branded drug 3 9 View →
1365660 24 HR oxcarbazepine 150 MG Extended Release Oral Tablet [Oxtellar] SBD Branded drug 3 9 View →
1365847 24 HR oxcarbazepine 300 MG Extended Release Oral Tablet [Oxtellar] SBD Branded drug 3 9 View →
1365850 24 HR oxcarbazepine 600 MG Extended Release Oral Tablet [Oxtellar] SBD Branded drug 3 9 View →
1371206 Menthol 10 MG/ML Topical Spray SCD Clinical drug 3 9 View →
1607619 24 HR desvenlafaxine succinate 25 MG Extended Release Oral Tablet [Pristiq] SBD Branded drug 3 9 View →
1869697 Linaclotide 0.072 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 3 9 View →
1869699 Linaclotide 0.072 MG Oral Capsule [Linzess] SBD Branded drug 3 9 View →
2669440 Tenapanor 10 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 3 9 View →
2669446 Tenapanor 10 MG Oral Tablet [Xphozah] SBD Branded drug 3 9 View →
2669448 Tenapanor 20 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 3 9 View →
2669450 Tenapanor 20 MG Oral Tablet [Xphozah] SBD Branded drug 3 9 View →
2669452 Tenapanor 30 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 3 9 View →
2669454 Tenapanor 30 MG Oral Tablet [Xphozah] SBD Branded drug 3 9 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.