Bencao: Chinese Medicine Herbs
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical | $29.99 | Jonathan Hemi | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Ben Cao (pronounced Ben Tsao) is suitable for all practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
For TCM doctors and physicians, Bencao provides quick access to specific symptoms or syndromes, helpful for making modifications or remembering an obscure function or indication.
For TCM students, Bencao help memorization with it's systematic approach and concise information, replacing heavy reference books and easier to get to the information you need.
Unique features:
◆ Hundreds of commonly used herbs and formulas, organized by Pinyin (Chinese pronunciation) with tone marks, pharmaceutical or English name.
◆ Fully linkable interface. Click any herb, formula, symptom or syndrome's name, category etc. to jump to the respective information screen. Use the back arrows to go all the way back. Click on a herb's image to view it at full screen.
◆ Hundreds of symptoms and dozens of TCM syndromes provide links to all indicated herbs and formulas, making it easy to treat according to Differential Diagnosis (DD).
◆ Save your personal notes on each herb or formula, displayed as an integral part of the information screen.
◆ Personalize you display of herbs and formulas according to your preference of Pinyin, English pharmaceutical or English name.
◆ Contains all the herbs and formulas required by the California Acupuncture Licensing Exam. Use the Settings screen to visually mark them and help you prepare for the exam.
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This application is a product of love and a lot of hard work. We value any feedback or suggestion you may have. Please use the "Send Feedback" link in the Settings screen or email us at [email protected] at any time. Note that we cannot communicate through the reviews section of the App Store so please contact us directly with any concern.
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Reviews
Outstanding Work!!
Acu-Gap
I have been waiting for an application for Chinese herbal medicinals and this app gets it right. As an advanced student of Chinese Medicine I highly recommend this for students and practioners alike.
Bencao is my daddy
Acu997
This app is what I've wanted for a long time. Worth every penny. I would add: Add herbs and formulas to a favorite list.
Fantastic!!!
iamCarlos
Currently in school for Chinese Medicine, and have been looking for a program like this in the app store at least once a week for the past 6 months. Wonderful application. Maybe a "testing" feature in the future? Regardless, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!
an amazingly great start...
Sean Michael Hall, L.Ac.
A little pricey, but considering the limited audience, it's a fair price. Highly recommended for students or practitioners, especially those that practice in multiple locations, and would rather not lug heavy books around. This app is not for the layperson, but designed for professionals. It's a very complete collection of herbs, formulas, symptoms and TCM patterns... with each easily cross-referenced in the other categories. Also, there is a great function that allows you to manually enter personal notes for each herb or formula. I imagine when iphone os version 3 comes we'll be able to cut and paste text in here! This gets an enthusiastic five stars, and it is well worth the price as is.. but there is certainly some room for growth, so here are a few suggestions: 1. add herb modifications for formulas (I've been told they are working on this) 2. when searching by symptom, every herb and formula that mentions that specific symptom comes up... it would be nice if this were manually done, so that the most important herbs and formulas for each symptom were given precedence. also, some symptom entries seem a little incomplete... for instance "acne" listed only one herb "bai hua she she cao" and no formulas... so I think this function is limited at this point. 3. it would also be nice if there were comments for each herb and formula (like in Bensky or Chen), but this is maybe asking for too much :) Overall, if you have an iphone and you are an acupuncturist or student, you should have this app. It's great now and will only get better
one of the best apps ive seen but.
acustudent
This app is a great supplement to both herbal study on the go and howning in on the best formula to use when in clinic.............With that sead there really needs to be a favorites option and a way to access CA baord material without going through the whole Bencao app.
Amazing
Lovely11
I'm a second year student and stumbled across this application. This has been an amazing help. I've showed it to several other students and they are also impressed. I have already suggested that there be a way to add your own formulas like for Dui Yao and your own creations. They are working on it!!! Test questions would be great too.
This is a must-have for any student or practitioner of TOM
mrswitters
A friend at school recently turned me on to this app. I'm so glad she did. It has really changed the way I study herbs. Now when I'm in class, and a teacher mentions a formula, I look it up right away on my iPhone. If there are herbs in the formula that I'm a bit rusty on, I click on those to go right to a screen with info about each single herb. I can even add notes to both single herbs and formulas. Another useful feature is the ability to highlight which formulas are on the CA State Board exam. This will be very helpful for studying purposes. My only complaint is that it's not yet possible to filter/sort formulas based on whether they're on the State Boards, but I emailed the developer about this and he responded promptly and said this would be a feature added in a future version. Fantastic!
Good app just needs tweaking to be great
Blueskymedicine
This is perfect for info at your fingertips. Great clinical tool. Needs to be able to let the user add herbs and formulas to the app that are not in it. I use a lot of herbs and formulas not listed. Other apps allow that so should be here since this one costs the most. But very great tool. With the addition of what I said above this app would be excellent.
Great
Tcm herbalist
This was a wonderful app studying for the Colorado boards. I agree, tho, that we need to be able to include our own notes, formulas and modifications. Still worth the money!! Don't hesitate to get this one!
