For practitioners

What your patient sees

Twenty-six questions, about four minutes, no account and no sign-in. Their answers stay in their browser, and there is no clinic dashboard: we cannot look anyone up, and neither can you. A report passes through us only when they ask us to email it — to themselves, or, if they came through your link and tick a box naming your practice, to you — and our mailbox keeps a copy of every email we send. The result is one pattern, judged against the thresholds in Table 1 of the standard, with the transformed score and the verdict shown next to it; then the standard’s account of that pattern written out in plain English rather than translated word for word, the non-drug regulation from T/CACM 1460-2023 in the same plain English, and the acupoints it names — that paragraph is the guideline’s own text, translated — drawn to the WHO 2008 locations. When nothing reaches those thresholds the page says so plainly and gives none of that — no score, no verdict, no pattern, no regulation. What it still shows is the fortnight’s climate where they are, and the option to save the page. Herbal formulas are not on the result page.

We do not touch the standard’s items

An earlier version of this site replaced four items and dropped a fifth. That is reverted. The questions and the scoring thresholds are the standard’s own, used as written — which is the only footing on which the standard’s own validation work carries over at all. The handling moved to the result instead: when the assessment returns blood stasis, the page names the two questions that rest on self-judged appearance, sets out three signs that point towards the pattern — including the sublingual vessels, which do not depend on skin tone — and three ordinary causes that produce the same look, and says plainly that none of it rules the pattern out. Your patient arrives knowing where the soft ground is.

This questionnaire has not been validated in a US population. The standard’s norms come from a Chinese sample; no cognitive interviews have been done in English, by us or, as far as I can tell, by anyone. The one English-language administration we know of — Nashville, 191 adults — reported internal consistency of 0.44 to 0.72 across the nine subscales, several of them below 0.7. Treat the result as a conversation starter for intake, not as a finding. We say the same thing on every page the patient sees.

How it works

Each practice starts with about 25 free results a month. If you need more, write to us and we will raise it. If the allowance is used up or the link cannot be used, your patient can still see their result free. The free 28-day plan needs an available clinic pass. When your patient sees their result, they can tick a box naming your practice and we email you the report, with the name and the contact they type. Nothing reaches you unless they tick it, and we send it only to the practice address you give us — your patient never types an address. Once it is in your inbox it is yours to look after under your own privacy practices.

What we ask of you

Hand the link out, or put it at your front desk. The reading is yours: the result is a conversation starter for intake, not a diagnosis. It is for adults. If you link to us from your website, please mark the link rel="sponsored"; we do not ask for that link, and the free results do not depend on it.

I will write when we change something because a practitioner told us to, or when there is validation data worth reading. A few times a year at most, and never a sales email. This list is kept separate from the patient-facing one, so you will not get the every-fortnight readings.

No account. We hold the address ourselves and give it to nobody. Reply “stop” and you are off the list.