This app is designed for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners and students to easily find an herbal formula from a library of hundreds of formulas in the Chinese pharmacopeia. This app enables you to search efficiently by formula name, herb, manifestation, or diagnosis. The app also performs searches by and displays names in Pin Yin or English names.
Features and benefits:
* Access a database of hundreds of herbal formulas from the Chinese pharmacopeia
* Quickly and easily search for formulas by its name, herbs, manifestations, and diagnosis
* See relationships between formulas and its family through lineage details
* Detailed diagnosis information provided for common formulas
* Display formulas for California Licensing Exam (CALE) and National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM)
* Each formula contains details including: English and Chinese formula names; herbal ingredients with pictures; TCM indications; Western-Medicine indications; actions; and other relevant comments.
* Formula database is updated automatically online for new content and maintenance.
All content within this app was written by Dr. Dave Liu, OMD, Ph.D., L.Ac., a 4th generation Chinese Medical doctor. He began studying Chinese Medicine (CM) in 1970, and has since earned doctorate degrees and Fellowships in CM/OM in both China and the United States. Dr. Liu has over 40 years of professional experience, and 30 years of teaching experience. Currently he is a Senior Professor at three Acupuncture schools for both master and doctoral program in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Content also edited by Teresa Lau, MSTCM, MPH. Teresa Lau completed her Master of Science degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) at the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ACTCM) in San Francisco, CA.