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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
851752 {14 (lamotrigine 100 MG Disintegrating Oral Tablet) / 42 (lamotrigine 50 MG Disintegrating... GPCK Generic pack 23 25 View →
866508 5 ML metoprolol tartrate 1 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 23 25 View →
1053138 Diphenhydramine hydrochloride 20 MG/ML / zinc acetate 1 MG/ML Topical Spray SCD Clinical drug 23 24 View →
1863973 1000 ML glucose 50 MG/ML / potassium chloride 0.02 MEQ/ML / sodium chloride 2.25 MG/ML Inj... SCD Clinical drug 23 24 View →
309686 Dexamethasone 0.1 MG/ML Oral Solution SCD Clinical drug 23 24 View →
310027 Doxycycline hyclate 100 MG Injection SCD Clinical drug 23 24 View →
615107 1000 ML glucose 50 MG/ML / potassium chloride 0.02 MEQ/ML / sodium chloride 9 MG/ML Inject... SCD Clinical drug 23 24 View →
631799 Isopropyl alcohol 0.95 ML/ML Otic Solution SCD Clinical drug 23 24 View →
238006 Estrogens, esterified (USP) 0.625 MG / methyltestosterone 1.25 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 23 23 View →
477347 Lanthanum carbonate 500 MG Chewable Tablet SCD Clinical drug 23 23 View →
602635 Lanthanum carbonate 1000 MG Chewable Tablet SCD Clinical drug 23 23 View →
642452 Lanthanum carbonate 750 MG Chewable Tablet SCD Clinical drug 23 23 View →
646333 Capsaicin 1 MG/ML Topical Cream SCD Clinical drug 23 23 View →
996202 Dextran 70 1 MG/ML / polyethylene glycol 400 10 MG/ML / povidone 10 MG/ML / tetrahydrozoli... SCD Clinical drug 23 23 View →
1014676 Cetirizine hydrochloride 5 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 22 109 View →
1245230 Chlorhexidine gluconate 20 MG/ML Medicated Liquid Soap SCD Clinical drug 22 84 View →
835564 Imipramine hydrochloride 25 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 22 53 View →
197318 Albuterol 4 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 22 50 View →
1012895 Fingolimod 0.5 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 22 47 View →
1867544 Potassium chloride 20 MEQ Powder for Oral Solution SCD Clinical drug 22 47 View →
859867 Haloperidol decanoate 50 MG/ML Injectable Solution SCD Clinical drug 22 47 View →
433799 24 HR alprazolam 2 MG Extended Release Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 22 46 View →
433801 24 HR alprazolam 3 MG Extended Release Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 22 46 View →
905158 Sirolimus 0.5 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 22 45 View →
1010688 20 ML epinephrine 0.005 MG/ML / lidocaine hydrochloride 20 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 22 44 View →
1010745 Epinephrine 0.005 MG/ML / lidocaine hydrochloride 5 MG/ML Injectable Solution SCD Clinical drug 22 44 View →
436367 Chloroxylenol 5 MG/ML Medicated Liquid Soap SCD Clinical drug 22 41 View →
857321 Bethanechol chloride 10 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 22 41 View →
857328 Bethanechol chloride 25 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 22 41 View →
197832 Isoniazid 300 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 22 38 View →
197863 Leucovorin 5 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 22 38 View →
577315 Paricalcitol 0.001 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 22 37 View →
577317 Paricalcitol 0.002 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 22 37 View →
848943 Cholestyramine resin 4000 MG Powder for Oral Suspension SCD Clinical drug 22 36 View →
1298448 Butenafine hydrochloride 10 MG/ML Topical Cream SCD Clinical drug 22 35 View →
1791854 10 ML milrinone lactate 1 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 22 31 View →
198603 Dimenhydrinate 50 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 22 31 View →
309374 Clozapine 200 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 22 31 View →
199592 Tetrabenazine 25 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 22 30 View →
283077 Prednisolone 3 MG/ML Oral Solution SCD Clinical drug 22 30 View →
805464 Tetrabenazine 12.5 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 22 30 View →
905495 Chlordiazepoxide hydrochloride 25 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 22 30 View →
103568 Salicylic acid 20 MG/ML Topical Lotion SCD Clinical drug 22 29 View →
1663224 3 ML amiodarone hydrochloride 50 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 22 29 View →
1191250 2 ML naloxone hydrochloride 1 MG/ML Prefilled Syringe SCD Clinical drug 22 28 View →
1790100 25 ML doxorubicin hydrochloride 2 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 22 28 View →
1807508 200 ML vancomycin 5 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 22 28 View →
1807510 150 ML vancomycin 5 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 22 28 View →
1807511 100 ML vancomycin 5 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 22 28 View →
2118448 300 ML vancomycin 5 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 22 28 View →
2387078 250 ML vancomycin 5 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 22 28 View →
283536 Oxcarbazepine 60 MG/ML Oral Suspension SCD Clinical drug 22 28 View →
902574 Ethanol 0.65 ML/ML Topical Gel SCD Clinical drug 22 28 View →
1047905 Hyoscyamine sulfate 0.125 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 22 27 View →
1090487 Dextromethorphan hydrobromide 15 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 22 27 View →
1667909 1 ML isoproterenol hydrochloride 0.2 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 22 27 View →
1723740 1 ML diphenhydramine hydrochloride 50 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 22 26 View →
1741046 24 HR tofacitinib 11 MG Extended Release Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 22 26 View →
314216 Simethicone 80 MG Chewable Tablet SCD Clinical drug 22 26 View →
896771 Labetalol hydrochloride 5 MG/ML Injectable Solution SCD Clinical drug 22 25 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.