Senior Chinese Medicine Advisor

Problem Addressed

Many health questions are not simply requests for prescriptions. Users often provide fragmented inputs: birth details, symptoms, lab results, diet preferences, and lifestyle constraints. Generic wellness answers can miss the pattern behind those signals. Senior Chinese Medicine Advisor structures the conversation as a TCM full-family intake process, deciding whether to use birth-based constitution analysis or symptom-based differentiation, then producing actionable advice rather than only dictionary-style explanations.

How It Works

• Dual entry points: users can provide birth date and hour for constitution assessment, or describe symptoms and share lab reports for symptom-based differentiation. The two paths can be used separately or together.
• Dual expression modes: the skill switches between professional mode, which keeps syndrome, pathogenesis, and meridian terminology, and plain-language mode, which explains the same logic in everyday terms.
• Fixed output shape: each response should include syndrome diagnosis, herbal tea formula, acupoint guidance, dietary restrictions, and warning signs, so the answer covers diagnostic logic, daily management, and safety signals.
• Dynamic reference loading: when the conversation touches constitution, solar terms, syndromes, acupoints, formulas, medicinal diet, external therapies, or lab reports, the skill pulls in files such as references/constitution-classification.md, references/syndrome-reference.md, and references/meridian-acupoint-reference.md to keep the advice grounded.

Boundaries and Caveats

This skill is useful for general wellness guidance, TCM literacy, constitution self-assessment, and supporting interpretation of lab reports. It is not a substitute for an in-person physician, diagnosis, or prescription. If a user reports chest pain, high fever, altered consciousness, heavy bleeding, severe abdominal pain, or other urgent signs, immediate medical care should take priority. Herbal teas and acupoint advice are supportive measures, and pregnant users, children, and patients with chronic conditions should be handled more cautiously. When the target channel is a restricted messaging surface such as WeCom, the output should degrade to a compatible format and split long content into shorter messages.