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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
858048 0.5 ML paliperidone palmitate 156 MG/ML Prefilled Syringe SCD Clinical drug 11 14 View →
858052 1.5 ML paliperidone palmitate 156 MG/ML Prefilled Syringe SCD Clinical drug 11 14 View →
858054 1 ML paliperidone palmitate 156 MG/ML Prefilled Syringe SCD Clinical drug 11 14 View →
858056 0.75 ML paliperidone palmitate 156 MG/ML Prefilled Syringe SCD Clinical drug 11 14 View →
858073 0.25 ML paliperidone palmitate 156 MG/ML Prefilled Syringe SCD Clinical drug 11 14 View →
1013930 12 HR clonidine hydrochloride 0.1 MG Extended Release Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 11 13 View →
1246288 120 ACTUAT budesonide 0.08 MG/ACTUAT / formoterol fumarate 0.0045 MG/ACTUAT Metered Dose I... SCD Clinical drug 11 13 View →
1718902 20 ML dexmedetomidine 0.004 MG/ML Injection [Precedex] SBD Branded drug 11 13 View →
1721314 200 ML fluconazole 2 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 11 13 View →
1721315 100 ML fluconazole 2 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 11 13 View →
1737581 6 ML clindamycin 150 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 11 13 View →
1804735 50 ML argatroban 1 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 11 13 View →
1919076 Acetaminophen 32.5 MG/ML / dextromethorphan hydrobromide 1 MG/ML Oral Solution SCD Clinical drug 11 13 View →
2123076 NDA020983 200 ACTUAT albuterol 0.09 MG/ACTUAT Metered Dose Inhaler SCD Clinical drug 11 13 View →
237371 Sodium acetate 2 MEQ/ML Injectable Solution SCD Clinical drug 11 13 View →
2396892 250 ML dexmedetomidine 0.004 MG/ML Injection [Precedex] SBD Branded drug 11 13 View →
311881 Mycophenolate mofetil 500 MG Injection SCD Clinical drug 11 13 View →
700897 Pectin 7 MG Oral Lozenge SCD Clinical drug 11 13 View →
858342 Diclofenac 25 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 11 13 View →
103403 Hydrocortisone 10 MG/ML Topical Lotion SCD Clinical drug 11 12 View →
1111663 Dextromethorphan hydrobromide 10 MG / guaifenesin 200 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 11 12 View →
1433251 0.5 ML hydromorphone hydrochloride 1 MG/ML Prefilled Syringe SCD Clinical drug 11 12 View →
1544717 Calamine 80 MG/ML / pramoxine hydrochloride 10 MG/ML Topical Spray SCD Clinical drug 11 12 View →
2265695 Cenobamate 50 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 11 12 View →
2265701 Cenobamate 50 MG Oral Tablet [Xcopri] SBD Branded drug 11 12 View →
2283503 Cenobamate 100 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 11 12 View →
2283505 Cenobamate 100 MG Oral Tablet [Xcopri] SBD Branded drug 11 12 View →
2283507 Cenobamate 150 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 11 12 View →
2283509 Cenobamate 150 MG Oral Tablet [Xcopri] SBD Branded drug 11 12 View →
2283511 Cenobamate 200 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 11 12 View →
2283513 Cenobamate 200 MG Oral Tablet [Xcopri] SBD Branded drug 11 12 View →
2283517 {28 (cenobamate 150 MG Oral Tablet) / 28 (cenobamate 200 MG Oral Tablet) } Pack GPCK Generic pack 11 12 View →
2283518 {28 (cenobamate 150 MG Oral Tablet [Xcopri]) / 28 (cenobamate 200 MG Oral Tablet) } Pack [... BPCK Branded pack 11 12 View →
2283520 Cenobamate 12.5 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 11 12 View →
2283522 Cenobamate 25 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 11 12 View →
2283523 {14 (cenobamate 12.5 MG Oral Tablet) / 14 (cenobamate 25 MG Oral Tablet) } Pack GPCK Generic pack 11 12 View →
2283525 Cenobamate 12.5 MG Oral Tablet [Xcopri] SBD Branded drug 11 12 View →
2283527 Cenobamate 25 MG Oral Tablet [Xcopri] SBD Branded drug 11 12 View →
2283535 {14 (cenobamate 100 MG Oral Tablet) / 14 (cenobamate 50 MG Oral Tablet) } Pack GPCK Generic pack 11 12 View →
2283536 {14 (cenobamate 100 MG Oral Tablet [Xcopri]) / 14 (cenobamate 50 MG Oral Tablet [Xcopri])... BPCK Branded pack 11 12 View →
2283538 {14 (cenobamate 12.5 MG Oral Tablet [Xcopri]) / 14 (cenobamate 25 MG Oral Tablet [Xcopri])... BPCK Branded pack 11 12 View →
2283539 {14 (cenobamate 150 MG Oral Tablet) / 14 (cenobamate 200 MG Oral Tablet) } Pack GPCK Generic pack 11 12 View →
2283540 {14 (cenobamate 150 MG Oral Tablet [Xcopri]) / 14 (cenobamate 200 MG Oral Tablet [Xcopri])... BPCK Branded pack 11 12 View →
242679 Abacavir 300 MG Oral Tablet SCD Clinical drug 11 12 View →
2540431 {28 (cenobamate 100 MG Oral Tablet) / 28 (cenobamate 150 MG Oral Tablet) } Pack GPCK Generic pack 11 12 View →
2540432 {28 (cenobamate 100 MG Oral Tablet [Xcopri]) / 28 (cenobamate 150 MG Oral Tablet [Xcopri])... BPCK Branded pack 11 12 View →
2683673 {14 (cenobamate 12.5 MG Oral Tablet) } Pack GPCK Generic pack 11 12 View →
2683674 {14 (cenobamate 12.5 MG Oral Tablet [Xcopri]) } Pack [Xcopri Titration Pack - 12.5 MG 14 C... BPCK Branded pack 11 12 View →
311508 Menthol 5 MG Oral Lozenge SCD Clinical drug 11 12 View →
314188 Povidone-iodine 75 MG/ML Topical Solution SCD Clinical drug 11 12 View →
637365 Potassium nitrate 0.05 MG/MG / sodium fluoride 0.011 MG/MG Toothpaste SCD Clinical drug 11 12 View →
707195 Acetaminophen 325 MG / guaifenesin 200 MG Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 11 12 View →
763306 Pantoprazole 40 MG Oral Granules SCD Clinical drug 11 12 View →
849931 3 ML caffeine citrate 20 MG/ML Injection SCD Clinical drug 11 12 View →
857886 Procainamide hydrochloride 100 MG/ML Injectable Solution SCD Clinical drug 11 12 View →
901399 Doxycycline anhydrous 40 MG Delayed Release Oral Capsule SCD Clinical drug 11 12 View →
998282 Chlorhexidine gluconate 20 MG/ML / isopropyl alcohol 0.7 ML/ML Topical Solution [ChloraPre... SBD Branded drug 11 12 View →
105028 Gabapentin 100 MG Oral Capsule [Neurontin] SBD Branded drug 11 11 View →
105029 Gabapentin 300 MG Oral Capsule [Neurontin] SBD Branded drug 11 11 View →
105030 Gabapentin 400 MG Oral Capsule [Neurontin] SBD Branded drug 11 11 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.