Re: [Gnumed-devel] Usage of GNU-med for TCM

[Axel Wachtler]

On 28.02.2012 19:37, Busser, Jim wrote:
> > Jim, I fully agree this approach should work.
>
> Since the above should work, any "not going well" may simply be some 
> misunderstanding of how to create and use such lists of medication, perhaps extending to 
> whether this can in future versions be made any easier in GNUmed.
>
> Whether to build a data pack depends if there is enough agreement on content, 
> by enough people, involving sufficient numbers of substances, to make the task 
> of interest to somebody.

What I have seen in the current used TCM software is, that they have 
implemented a kind of lexica. In simple words they have the plant
name (latin, english, german, pinjin), a description what the plant
does and literature references. On the first view the information is
organized like a wikipedia for med. drugs and herbs. A free data base 
would be very helpfull here. Technically, the descriptions of the plants 
should have a trust level, so one or more readers/authors should sign 
the article or parts of it if they agree. Additionally there should be 
the option of allowing different parallel descriptions of one drug, 
because there will be sometimes different interpretations all over the 
world or the description is in different languages available.
I've just found that one university of Honkong started a page with such
a collection, but without signed information.

Axel