Traditional Chinese Medicine Editing and Proofreading Services

Traditional Chinese medicine writing has to hold two vocabularies at once. One describes patterns, channels, and constitution and is meaningful to trained practitioners; the other describes symptoms, safety, and evidence and is what regulators, insurers, and biomedical colleagues read. Documents that use only the first are dismissed; documents that abandon it entirely misrepresent the practice. The skill is knowing which reader is holding which page.

We edit what TCM practitioners and clinics produce — patient intake and health-history forms, informed consent for acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping, and herbal prescribing, treatment records and pattern differentiation notes, herbal formula documentation with dosages and preparation instructions, herb-drug interaction and safety documentation, clinic websites and service descriptions, insurer and extended-health claim material, regulatory college submissions, teaching and continuing education material, and translation review where source material is in Chinese. Our editors keep traditional terminology precise and consistently romanised, and make sure safety information meets the standard a pharmacist would expect.

Herbal safety documentation is where careless writing does real harm. Formulas contain multiple ingredients, some with genuine interactions, some restricted in certain jurisdictions, some sharing common names with different species. We write prescriptions and patient instructions so the ingredient is named unambiguously — pinyin with the botanical name — with dosage, preparation, duration, and what to stop for. That level of precision is also what protects a practitioner if a patient reports an adverse event.

Everything you send is treated confidentially. Whether you are a practitioner whose English writing does not yet match your clinical training, a clinic preparing a regulatory submission, or a school producing course material, we can make the writing precise in both vocabularies without flattening either.