TCM Food Encyclopedia 12+
alisa westerhof
Designed for iPad
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- $9.99
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Description
This TCM app contains over 500 nutrients with their energetic nature and value.
This app contains over 500 nutrients with their energetic value according to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) en nutritional information according to Western science. Its functionality is unique; it is the most complete catalogue of nutrients. Not only in terms of the number of nutrients, but also due to the detailed information for each nutrient and additional functionalities such as an extensive search and filter option, a nutrient value calculator, a large collection of recipes and the option to create a personalized dietary advice.
Therefore, it is the ideal TCM nutrient reference guide.
Per nutrient, this app offers detailed information about the:
· Thermal nature (cooling, neutral, warming),
· Effect on organ(s),
· Deficiencies (such as Jing, Yang, Qi, Shen),
· Properties,
· Elements (wood, water, earth, metal or fire),
· Flavor,
· Acidity,
· Food type,
· Family,
· Nutrient value (including vitamines and minerals).
You can either search the database by nutrient name, or filter by organ, thermal nature, element, acidity, food type and deficiencies.
Futhermore, this app contains a large collection of recipes. You can filter this collection the same as the nutrient database, to find the recipes that serve your need. With the calculator you can calculate the energetic value of your own recipes. The app also provides a tool to create a practitioners note in PDF, with a personalized nutritional advice.
The app is also ideal for practitioners such as acupuncturists and shiatsu therapists. The app can easily be used to support the treatment of your clients. For more information check out the following videos on YouTube:
How to use the TCM app for practitioners: https://youtu.be/I_JhLmRSihU
How to use the TCM "Practitioners Note" functionality: https://youtu.be/qvblaT7dtYs
Disclaimer: Although this app is designed to make the information about food easily available for all, the information in the database has most value for individuals with a basic background in TCM. It is not intended to provide you with a dietary advice. The use of this app is entirely at your own risk. We recommend you get advice from a (TCM-)nutritionist before adjusting your diet.
What’s New
Version 4.0
Fixed Data Loading Issue:
We've identified and resolved the root cause of the data loading problem that some users encountered. Users are now able to see all nutrients and recipes in the app.
Bug Fixes and Stability:
In addition to the data loading fix, we've also tackled a number of other bugs and glitches that were affecting the app's stability. Your experience should now be significantly smoother and more reliable.
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Additional information for practitioners such as acupuncturists and shiatsu therapists. The app can easily be used to support the treatment of your clients. For more information check out the following videos on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/I_JhLmRSihU
https://youtu.be/qvblaT7dtYs
New functionalities:
- Optimalisation in searching recipes
- Selected ingredients shown in calculator result
- Name of practitioners is persistent
- Imperial/metric system options added
Ratings and Reviews
Uses graphics instead of words
While it has the basic information that you would be looking for, there is no option (that I saw) that would put the information about the food in words. For example, if you enter chicken, you get an image of a thermometer instead of them telling you warming ... so you have to remember (or look it up) whether that particular image means warm or hot, then for the organs there are pictutres of organs instead of the words, etc. It's just takes a lot more effort to get basic data than it should. If they would allow you to have the information either with words or with both words and images as well, I would increase it to a 4 or 5 star app. Right now it's more efficient for me to look it up online.
Ads for a paid app?
There’s an ad that’s permanently at the bottom of the page that makes the rest of the info take up the screen. This means every time you want to go back or access the main menu, you have to quit the app and open it again. And this is a paid app. If you have some patience working with this then the info provided is just OK, but definitely not worth the trouble.
Developer Response ,
Hi Samgee,
Thank you for your feedback. We are working on a mayor update, without adds, a better interface and more functionality. We hope to release it before summer (july 2021)
For now: Just click on the right top of the page (3 lines), then you get back to the main menu.
If you have any other suggestions or requests, let us know. Perhaps we can include it in our next update.
Best regards, Alisa
Does Not Display any food
I cannot search or lookup any food or nutrients.
Developer Response ,
Dear user, it has come to our attention that recently some users are having trouble accessing the nutrients and recipes database. We have fixed the problem with version 4.0. So, the app should work properly again.
If the app works for you, could you please adjust your rating?
App Privacy
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Information
- Seller
- alisa westerhof
- Size
- 27.1 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information
- Copyright
- © 2020, A Westerhof
- Price
- $9.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.