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Systems requirements include: IBM-compatible PC running Windows 3.1 or higher, 386 CPU, 25 mhz. or more, with at least 3MB Ram. 18 mgs. of hard disk space needed. A standard VGA color monitor or 32 monochrome shades, and a mouse highly recommended. 18 mb hard disk space needed. Apple Computer with an IBM board added into the expansion slot for some MacIntosh computers, or call regarding using SoftWindows for the PowerMac.

Herbal Formulary software - CD-ROM PC or MACbased $495.00 Chinese Herbal Medicine: The Formulary® for WindowsTM is a revolutionary software program that will allow you to quickly and easily improve the accuracy of your clinical observations, diagnosis and herbal prescriptions. Imagine your computer looking up references while you look after more patients. With the Formulary, you will avoid the frustration of doing research the tedious, old fashioned way. Open the entire traditional Chinese herbal medicine formulary for use in just minutes. With a few clicks of the mouse, you can quickly and easily see more clearly the possibilities and best use of interconnected formulas, conditions, and actions. The Formulary® for Windows, written by herbalist Michael Gandy, L.Ac., is a revolutionary software program based on such standard references as Chinese Herbal Medicine: Formulas and Strategies. Demo this software How you use the program in clinic at observation, diagnosis and prescription writing. Practitioner Use Student Use Teachers, lecturers, writers Software Review

SOFTWARE REVIEW An independent review of Chinese Herbal Medicine: The Formulary® by Miki Shima, O.M.D., American Journal of Acupuncture, Fall 1995: "...looking up formulas and herbs on a computer is a whole other experience... It is the first comprehensive computer application in the field of traditional Chinese herbal medicine and it also goes way beyond being merely a database... It is a very intelligent program which can "think" with the physician in both Western and Eastern ways... I find it very user friendly. I could move around the program within a week with ease. If not very familiar with Chinese medicine, one can enter the program using western diagnosis, and that will help to find formulas and to understand Chinese herbal medicine. If familiar with the ways traditional Chinese medicine works, The Formulary is a sheer joy. One can find formulas with respect to Zang-fu organ imbalance, the Six Pathogenic Factors, Three Burners, Channels, etc. Furthermore, one can create any combination of etiologies one may want to explore... and be led to the correct formulas to prescribe... It is helpful for educational purposes. Especially for me as a teacher of Chinese herbal medicine, the program saves me hundreds of hours preparing my lecture notes, because I can cut and paste together bits and pieces of relevant information in order to compose very informative teaching materials for my workshops... I also think that the program can be one of the best educational tools for students preparing for board examinations."Chinese Herbal Medicine: The Formulary® provides categorized symptom information. Page top In the clinic: At Observation Confirms accuracy. Chinese Herbal Medicine: The Formulary suggests follow-up questions to confirm the accuracy of clinical observations. If symptoms and signs associated with the formula(s) match with the patient, the accuracy of observations will be confirmed. If there is not a match, the original observations may require reassessment. Clearly articulates problems and sets clear priorities. Detailed lists of symptoms and signs facilitate clearly articulated problems. Important key symptom descriptions lead to rich veins of interconnections and formulas that provide a good match with the patient. Choice of secondary symptoms leads to less appropriate answers and indicate a need for reassessing priorities. Completes observations. Lists of keywords related to your case, and lists of specific symptoms and signs suggest additional questions needed to make information gathering complete and thorough. Identifies patterns. Chinese Herbal Medicine: The Formulary finds all symptoms and signs associated with those you identify. This list can then be organized by Pathophysiological Category (e.g., GYN, GI, Pulse Dx, Tongue Dx) or searched by keywords in order to rapidly explore patterns of symptoms and signs in an orderly way. Finds Mistakes. Incorrect observations among a pattern of correct ones can be isolated by Chinese Herbal Medicine: The Formulary, which will search for symptoms and signs associated with the symptoms you have identified with the highest confidence, add a second symptom, and so on. If an incongruent item is added, it will become obvious. At Diagnosis References East and West. Comprehensive cross-references allow easy access from both the perspectives of Chinese energetic conditions, actions, pulse, tongue signs and herb lore, as well as from Western biomedical disease names, standard patho-physiological categories and anatomical regions. Confirms good diagnosis. Chinese Herbal Medicine: The Formulary indicates correct diagnostic conclusions from empirical symptom and sign evidence, by a search for well-matched formulas. An incorrect diagnosis will yield no match. Diagnosis from key symptoms. Small groups or patterns of general symptoms and signs can be used to find energetic conditions. conversely, highly specific "idiopathic" symptoms or signs can be used to find energetic conditions, then associated biomedical diseases and symptoms can be organized, listed and matched with the patient. Page top At Prescription Quickly finds the best combinations of herbs and formulas. The program clearly displays information about the short list of potential candidates in a succinct and well-organized way. in-depth information about a formula is available whenever needed. You can search for modifications if necessary to customize the formula and then print the prescription. Key information is extracted, organized, linked and displayed graphically. In-depth knowledge at your fingertips. Each formula is connected by hundreds of lines of meaning to hundreds of traditional formulas. This turns lines of meaning into allies, instead of overwhelming details. Compares and contrasts formulas. Chinese Herbal Medicine: The Formulary can instantly compare and contrast any two formulas to make clear what herbs, symptoms, signs, conditions, chapters and action they have in common and what properties are distinct. Your computer then graphically illustrates the symptoms treated by that formula. Consult with the masters. Chinese Herbal Medicine: The Formulary will instantly compare your own herb combination or full formula to thousands of classi c formulas or hundreds of synergistic herb combinations to find previous usage of the same or similar combinations. For students: Put an ancient medical tradition at your fingertips. The experience of past generations of physicians can be organized to facilitate your understanding of complex issues. You'll be able to explore the lines of meaning with the program and develop a firm theoretical foundation for your practice. Easily explore meanings of specific symptoms, conditions or action phrases. Items specific to a particular topic can be organized and listed. Chinese Herbal Medicine: The Formulary gives you instant reference to the phrase chosen and takes you there. Rote memorization is made obsolete. Regular use of Chinese Herbal Medicine: The Formulary promotes a strong recall of the subject matter, and renders extensive rote memorization of Chinese herbalism unnecessary. You can concentrate on seeing patterns, asking questions and sharpening your judgment. Learning Chinese medicine is made fun, creative, and more efficient. You will learn more about Chinese herbal medicine than you ever dreamed possible. Learning is made interactive, immediate and fascinating. Animated pages make formulas come alive by painting a picture of symptomatology treated for each formula. Chinese Herbal Medicine: The Formulary enhances your ability to organize your studies, and to research and write your essays. Page top For teachers/lecturers/writers: Deeply layered herbal tradition are made real and tangible. The experience of the past is available in a more complete form than a linear format book allows. This multidimensional program approximates (more closely than any text) the reality of brilliant scholar physicians as they developed and applied formulas clinically. Once inaccessible aspects now easily explored. the program allows you to do thorough research in a tiny fraction of the time required by the old text approach. Thousands of interconnections and several views of traditional information are opened up to you, allowing new possibilities in the analysis, reference and study of herbal medicine. Reference and analyze thousands of topics in new, insightful ways. Chinese Herbal Medicine: The Formulary is 10,000 books in one program. You can instantly reorganize the text into a monograph addressing your specific needs. Unlike old manual methods (with inadequate cross-referencing capabilities), you can always find information applicable to your topic. Create educational exercises, clinical cases and essay topics. the program can be used as a flexible resource to develop a wide variety of new educational materials and interactive thinking experiences for students. Topics can be researched at any level of difficulty up to and including peer review journals to discover and analyze new creative associations and insights. Easily communicate with patients, students and readers. Copy any information you desire from the program to a general word processing file. Use the extracted information as handouts for your classes, writing articles or researching books. You will be able to e-mail or fax prescriptions to herb companies as Order. You can even order custom prescriptions by telephone using built-in code numbers for formulas and herbs! Page top

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