Traditional Chinese medicine,
timed to your day.

Not a diagnosis. One direction, every morning.

Chinese medicine has never run on the calendar. It runs on the season — the sun's position, the humidity in the air, the way a body feels in early spring versus late autumn. TCM Care Pal reads that timing for today, folds in the moment you were born, and gives you one plain direction: what to eat, what to go easy on, one drink, one practice.

How it works

  1. The season first. The engine tracks the 24 solar terms and the classical Five Movements & Six Qi model — the same clock Chinese farmers, doctors and cooks have used for two thousand years.
  2. Then you. Add your birth date and time once. Chinese medicine reads a birth moment the way a gardener reads a planting date: it says what conditions you started in.
  3. Then today, together. The two are combined into a single line — for example Warm up · Dry the damp · Support Earth — and everything else on the card follows from it.

What you get

  • Today's direction in one line
  • What to favour and what to go easy on
  • Three everyday foods, one drink
  • One practice, with a reason
  • Your baseline constitution chart
  • A line from the classics, translated

What it isn't

  • Not a diagnosis, and never a prognosis
  • No predictions about illness
  • No supplement shop attached
  • No account, no email, no tracking
  • No data leaves your device

Your data stays on your phone

Everything — your birth moment, your reading, today's card — is computed inside your browser and stored in your browser's own local storage. There is no account to create and no server holding your birth details. Clearing your browser data clears it, and that is the whole of it.

This is not a marketing claim bolted on afterwards: it is why the first version of this site has no login at all.

Who it's for

People who already feel better when they eat with the season and worse when they don't, but have no idea what the rule actually is. People who are curious about Chinese medicine and want something concrete rather than abstract. And anyone who has been told to "eat more warming foods" and would like to know what that means on a Tuesday in October.

You do not need to believe anything to use it. You need a birth date, a time, and about thirty seconds a morning.

Start with today

See what today looks like first — no sign-up, nothing to install.

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Please read. TCM Care Pal shares the traditional Chinese view of seasonal living — food, rest, movement and mood. It is cultural and educational content, not medical advice, diagnosis or treatment, and it is not a substitute for care from a qualified practitioner. Nothing here is intended to diagnose, treat or prevent any disease. If you are unwell, pregnant, breastfeeding, taking medication or managing a condition, speak to your doctor before changing anything. Traditional Chinese medicine is a system of observation and practice, not a promise of outcome.