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AcuBase CD-ROM for Windows95 and Macintosh |
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By Trigram Software Reviewed by Douglas Eisenstark, L.Ac., www.taiqi.com The AcuBase CD-ROM for Windows and Mac is a very impressive piece of acupuncture software and is suitable for both students and professionals. AcuBase comes out of California with its demanding licensing standards and is certainly mindful of those studying for the boards there. Included in AcuBase are databases for individual herbs, formulas and acupuncture points. The program is set up to print cards of selected facts. Also one can scroll through the herbs showing the herbs simply with the PinYin, Latin and Chinese characters. With a push of the button one can view fairly high quality photographs of the herbs. Also included in AcuBase is a section of questions and answers on all the acupuncture aspects covered in the California State Board. Each of the sections allows one to add to the database. There are some minor disappointments. I would suggest that the button graphics take up too much space on the screen. The points are not given translations nor Chinese characters. Not all of the herbs are photographed. And on my dusty old 66 mhz IBM the program runs pretty slow at times. (But then my computer runs slow on all my programs.) This program will not take the place of your Bensky books. There are no biomedical indications nor does it have the narrative flow of those books. However I did enjoy flipping through the program at random and reviewing many of the formulas. Being able to click to a photograph of the herb certainly makes learning easier. Whether the practicing acupuncturist/herbalist will want to purchase a copy is matter of whether how much they enjoy sitting in front of the computer. As a diversion from paper cards and books it is quite a pleasant diversion. Computer savvy acupuncture schools would definitely want to have this program. I know of many students who have tried to or dreamed of writing a computer program such as this. Before they invest the time I would suggest they take a look at AcuBase.
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