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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
197987 Minoxidil 2.5 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 21 33 View →
251292 Sennosides, USP 25 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 21 33 View →
197862 Leucovorin 25 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 21 30 View →
199147 Lamivudine 150 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 21 30 View →
829734 50 ML magnesium sulfate 80 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 21 29 View →
833008 Desmopressin acetate 0.2 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 21 29 View →
891710 Dimethicone 13 MG/ML Topical Lotion SCD Clinical drug 21 29 View →
1358763 {21 (ethinyl estradiol 0.02 MG / norethindrone acetate 1 MG Oral Tablet) / 7 (ferrous fuma... GPCK Generic pack 21 28 View →
861424 Propafenone hydrochloride 150 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 21 28 View →
308714 Betamethasone 0.5 MG/ML / clotrimazole 10 MG/ML Topical Cream SCD Clinical drug 21 27 View →
1038982 Salicylic acid 10 MG/ML Medicated Liquid Soap SCD Clinical drug 21 26 View →
1190655 Atropine sulfate 10 MG/ML Ophthalmic Solution SCD Clinical drug 21 26 View →
1668250 10 ML calcium gluconate 100 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 21 26 View →
1790099 10 ML doxorubicin hydrochloride 2 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 21 26 View →
1665497 50 ML levofloxacin 5 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 21 25 View →
1665507 100 ML levofloxacin 5 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 21 25 View →
1665515 150 ML levofloxacin 5 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 21 25 View →
1010739 Lidocaine hydrochloride 20 MG/ML Mucous Membrane Topical Solution SCD Clinical drug 21 24 View →
204508 Flumazenil 0.1 MG/ML Injectable Solution SCD Clinical drug 21 24 View →
310149 Erythromycin 0.005 MG/MG Ophthalmic Ointment SCD Clinical drug 21 24 View →
855812 Prasugrel 10 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 21 24 View →
1091133 Methylphenidate hydrochloride 2 MG/ML Oral Solution SCD Clinical drug 21 23 View →
1091341 Methylphenidate hydrochloride 1 MG/ML Oral Solution SCD Clinical drug 21 23 View →
1421985 Chlorpheniramine maleate 4 MG / dextromethorphan hydrobromide 30 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 21 23 View →
1736541 250 ML esmolol hydrochloride 10 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 21 23 View →
1788984 10 ML methylene blue 5 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 21 23 View →
310274 Famotidine 8 MG/ML Oral Suspension SCD Clinical drug 21 23 View →
1736546 10 ML esmolol hydrochloride 10 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 21 22 View →
199387 Risperidone 1 MG/ML Oral Solution SCD Clinical drug 21 22 View →
313324 Thiamine hydrochloride 100 MG/ML Injectable Solution SCD Clinical drug 21 22 View →
200349 100 ML eptifibatide 0.75 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 21 21 View →
2369390 Zinc sulfate 1 MG/ML Injectable Solution SCD Clinical drug 21 21 View →
2634363 {1 (acetaminophen 325 MG / dextromethorphan hydrobromide 10 MG / doxylamine succinate 6.25... GPCK Generic pack 21 21 View →
307719 Acetylcysteine 200 MG/ML Inhalation Solution SCD Clinical drug 21 21 View →
312068 1 ML octreotide 0.05 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 21 21 View →
312071 Octreotide 1 MG/ML Injectable Solution SCD Clinical drug 21 21 View →
314152 Octreotide 0.2 MG/ML Injectable Solution SCD Clinical drug 21 21 View →
598050 Polyvinyl alcohol 0.005 ML/ML / povidone 6 MG/ML Ophthalmic Solution SCD Clinical drug 21 21 View →
800401 Alanine 8.8 MG/ML / arginine 4.89 MG/ML / glucose 100 MG/ML / glycine 4.38 MG/ML / histidi... SCD Clinical drug 21 21 View →
800405 Alanine 8.8 MG/ML / arginine 4.89 MG/ML / glucose 100 MG/ML / glycine 4.38 MG/ML / histidi... SBD Branded drug 21 21 View →
800416 Alanine 8.8 MG/ML / arginine 4.89 MG/ML / glucose 50 MG/ML / glycine 4.38 MG/ML / histidin... SCD Clinical drug 21 21 View →
800420 Alanine 8.8 MG/ML / arginine 4.89 MG/ML / glucose 50 MG/ML / glycine 4.38 MG/ML / histidin... SBD Branded drug 21 21 View →
800434 Alanine 10.4 MG/ML / arginine 5.75 MG/ML / glucose 150 MG/ML / glycine 5.15 MG/ML / histid... SCD Clinical drug 21 21 View →
800438 Alanine 10.4 MG/ML / arginine 5.75 MG/ML / glucose 150 MG/ML / glycine 5.15 MG/ML / histid... SBD Branded drug 21 21 View →
800440 Alanine 10.4 MG/ML / arginine 5.75 MG/ML / glucose 200 MG/ML / glycine 5.15 MG/ML / histid... SCD Clinical drug 21 21 View →
800444 Alanine 10.4 MG/ML / arginine 5.75 MG/ML / glucose 200 MG/ML / glycine 5.15 MG/ML / histid... SBD Branded drug 21 21 View →
896228 60 ACTUAT fluticasone propionate 0.5 MG/ACTUAT / salmeterol 0.05 MG/ACTUAT Dry Powder Inha... SCD Clinical drug 21 21 View →
898367 Benazepril hydrochloride 20 MG / hydrochlorothiazide 12.5 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 21 21 View →
861748 Glyburide 2.5 MG / metformin hydrochloride 500 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 20 77 View →
763181 {21 (prednisone 5 MG Oral Tablet) } Pack GPCK Generic pack 20 64 View →
2679605 Baclofen 15 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 20 57 View →
311919 Nateglinide 120 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 20 57 View →
314142 Nateglinide 60 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 20 57 View →
198035 24 HR nifedipine 60 MG Extended Release Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 20 52 View →
351257 Eplerenone 50 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 20 50 View →
360110 Sirolimus 2 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 20 45 View →
1100066 Famotidine 26.6 MG / ibuprofen 800 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 20 44 View →
1867996 30 ML epinephrine 0.005 MG/ML / lidocaine hydrochloride 15 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 20 42 View →
313884 Calcium carbonate 420 MG Chewable Tablet SCD Clinical drug 20 40 View →
861635 Brimonidine tartrate 2 MG/ML / timolol 5 MG/ML Ophthalmic Solution SCD Clinical drug 20 40 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.