This standard BS ISO 20334:2018 Traditional Chinese medicine. Coding system of formulae is classified in these ICS categories:
11.120.10 Medicaments
This document specifies rules to encode formulae, and gives specific codes for 1 233 frequently-used formulae. Chinese patent medicines (CPM) are outside the scope of this document. Kampo formulae are outside of the scope of this document.
This document is applicable to formula-relating databases in fields of clinical medication, scientific research and teaching, electronic medical records and prescription of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).