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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
824301 Rufinamide 400 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 15 22 View →
1000153 1 ML medroxyprogesterone acetate 150 MG/ML Prefilled Syringe SCD Clinical drug 15 21 View →
1359123 Estradiol 0.5 MG / norethindrone acetate 0.1 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 15 21 View →
1359124 {28 (estradiol 0.5 MG / norethindrone acetate 0.1 MG Oral Tablet) } Pack GPCK Generic pack 15 21 View →
1720960 26.3 ML gemcitabine 38 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 15 21 View →
1720975 52.6 ML gemcitabine 38 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 15 21 View →
1720977 5.26 ML gemcitabine 38 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 15 21 View →
1791736 20 ML fluorouracil 50 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 15 21 View →
244458 Zinc pyrithione 20 MG/ML Medicated Shampoo SCD Clinical drug 15 21 View →
579148 Galantamine 12 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 15 21 View →
749848 {21 (desogestrel 0.15 MG / ethinyl estradiol 0.03 MG Oral Tablet) / 7 (inert ingredients 1... GPCK Generic pack 15 21 View →
1658331 Brexpiprazole 1 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 15 20 View →
1658335 Brexpiprazole 2 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 15 20 View →
198741 Magnesium oxide 400 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 15 20 View →
314075 Loxapine 50 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 15 20 View →
1092373 Acetaminophen 33.3 MG/ML / diphenhydramine hydrochloride 1.67 MG/ML Oral Solution SCD Clinical drug 15 19 View →
1111018 Sapropterin dihydrochloride 100 MG Powder for Oral Solution SCD Clinical drug 15 19 View →
1653217 Sapropterin dihydrochloride 500 MG Powder for Oral Solution SCD Clinical drug 15 19 View →
1654169 2 ML adenosine 3 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 15 19 View →
314078 Loxapine 10 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 15 19 View →
543014 Citric acid 66.8 MG/ML / sodium citrate 100 MG/ML Oral Solution SCD Clinical drug 15 19 View →
903891 Fluvoxamine maleate 50 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 15 19 View →
1653202 3 ML insulin aspart, human 100 UNT/ML Pen Injector SCD Clinical drug 15 18 View →
1670200 2 ML fosphenytoin sodium 75 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 15 18 View →
1743833 2 ML famotidine 10 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 15 18 View →
311487 Melphalan 50 MG Injection SCD Clinical drug 15 18 View →
884787 Ethanol 0.65 ML/ML Medicated Pad SCD Clinical drug 15 18 View →
905369 Chlordiazepoxide hydrochloride 10 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 15 18 View →
259306 Alosetron 1 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 15 17 View →
348719 Tobramycin 60 MG/ML Inhalation Solution SCD Clinical drug 15 17 View →
403975 Alosetron 0.5 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 15 17 View →
616344 Menthol 2.5 MG Oral Lozenge SCD Clinical drug 15 17 View →
106309 Benzoyl peroxide 50 MG/ML Topical Lotion SCD Clinical drug 15 16 View →
1233575 Acetaminophen 325 MG / diphenhydramine hydrochloride 12.5 MG / phenylephrine hydrochloride... SCD Clinical drug 15 16 View →
1791840 100 ML milrinone lactate 0.2 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 15 16 View →
1791842 200 ML milrinone lactate 0.2 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 15 16 View →
1811180 Icosapent ethyl 500 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 15 16 View →
310015 Dorzolamide 20 MG/ML Ophthalmic Solution SCD Clinical drug 15 16 View →
897756 1 ML hydromorphone hydrochloride 1 MG/ML Prefilled Syringe SCD Clinical drug 15 16 View →
897757 1 ML hydromorphone hydrochloride 2 MG/ML Prefilled Syringe SCD Clinical drug 15 16 View →
999961 Glycopyrrolate 0.2 MG/ML Oral Solution SCD Clinical drug 15 16 View →
1000913 Pilocarpine hydrochloride 5 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 15 15 View →
1595035 1.7 ML articaine hydrochloride 40 MG/ML / epinephrine 0.01 MG/ML Cartridge SCD Clinical drug 15 15 View →
1665188 1 ML lorazepam 2 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 15 15 View →
198105 Pindolol 5 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 15 15 View →
200243 Sevoflurane 1000 MG/ML Inhalation Solution SCD Clinical drug 15 15 View →
237847 Stannous fluoride 0.004 MG/MG Oral Gel SCD Clinical drug 15 15 View →
2667657 Dibasic potassium phosphate 236 MG/ML / monobasic potassium phosphate 224 MG/ML Injectable... SCD Clinical drug 15 15 View →
310467 Gentamicin 3 MG/ML Ophthalmic Solution SCD Clinical drug 15 15 View →
317564 Hydrocortisone 10 MG/ML Topical Spray SCD Clinical drug 15 15 View →
403969 Fluoxetine 25 MG / olanzapine 6 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 15 15 View →
403970 Fluoxetine 25 MG / olanzapine 12 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 15 15 View →
403971 Fluoxetine 50 MG / olanzapine 12 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 15 15 View →
403972 Fluoxetine 50 MG / olanzapine 6 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 15 15 View →
721787 Fluoxetine 25 MG / olanzapine 3 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 15 15 View →
863559 Valganciclovir 50 MG/ML Oral Solution SCD Clinical drug 15 15 View →
308207 Ampicillin 125 MG Injection SCD Clinical drug 15 11 View →
977874 12 HR oxymorphone hydrochloride 10 MG Extended Release Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 14 56 View →
977894 12 HR oxymorphone hydrochloride 15 MG Extended Release Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 14 56 View →
977902 12 HR oxymorphone hydrochloride 20 MG Extended Release Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 14 56 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.