Eastland Herb–Chinese Medicine

I love the ease of this app, and overall think it is fantastic and feel very grateful to have this resource. I do wish that it would show which category any given herb or formula is in once you are in the entry, just as you can see the header telling you which section an herb is in when reading the material médica. I also wish that it would save your recent searches into your search history so you could easily reengage with what you were just looking at. Adding these two feature would make this app pretty much perfect. As it stands it is great, but it is a little tedious to use as a study tool because of the lack of those features.

There are many things I just love about this app. I love how easy it is to use. I love that I can have both my herbal and formula book right there at my fingertips at all times while I’m in the clinic and that it integrates both books so that I can quickly look up each herb in a formula if needed when customizing a formula. The thing that bothers me the most is the inability to highlight, underline or make notes. If this were a feature it would help greatly as there are times when I find interesting tidbits in the commentary but have to read the entire thing again to find out where it is.

I love that I can get all of the content of the Material Medica and Formulas and Strategies for about a third the cost of buying both while only weighing as much as my iPad. Search ability and links to herbs and formulas from the text are wonderful tools. The only reason I haven’t given five stars is that not all of the links work, and for the life of me, I can’t find a way to change the size of the type. I would love to be able to enlarge the type within the app to make it easier for me to read.