@pipeworx/tcm-products

Connect: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/tcm-products/mcp · Install: one-click buttons

Tools: 2

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) / Chinese Proprietary Medicine products licensed in Singapore — the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) “Listing of Licensed Chinese Proprietary Medicine Products” (~12,000 products), sourced from data.gov.sg, searchable by Chinese characters, pinyin (spaced or not), or English name.

An HSA licence is a safety and quality listing only — it is not evidence that a product treats any condition. The dataset carries no ingredients and no indications; it is a product inventory, and the tools describe it as one.

Tools

• tcm_product_search(query?, company?, manufacturer?, country?, dosage_form?, limit?, offset?) — products matching a name in any script (板蓝根 / banlangen / Ban Lan Gen / SANJIN all work; the licensed name fields carry Chinese characters inline next to the romanised names, so matching needs no translation source). Filters are case-insensitive substring matches on their columns.
• tcm_product_manufacturers(country?, manufacturer?, limit?) — manufacturers aggregated with licensed-product counts and countries of manufacture; the supply-chain view of who makes licensed CPM products and where.

Why a separate pack, not tools on data-gov-sg

Fleet #1380. data_gov_sg_query_dataset filters by exact column value, so it structurally cannot answer an alias query, and search_packs("traditional chinese medicine") found nothing TCM-shaped — the gap was discoverability. A pack whose name and descriptions say “Traditional Chinese Medicine” is what makes the catalog search find the data; two named tools buried in a general-purpose Singapore pack would not.

Auth

Keyless.

Data sources

• https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id=d_2ae2e6beb458d059318c1c14ad899f98 — the full export. One request returns all rows (limit=12000 → 11,977 rows, ~1.9 MB, verified 2026-09-08); the pack fetches it once per isolate and caches for 24h, because data.gov.sg rate-limits aggressively per caller (429s measured in fleet #1380) and the dataset updates roughly monthly.
• CKAN’s full-text q parameter is rejected by data.gov.sg ("q is invalid", verified 2026-09-08) — server-side text search does not exist on this surface, which is why matching is done in the Worker.
• Dataset metadata: https://api-production.data.gov.sg/v2/public/api/datasets/d_2ae2e6beb458d059318c1c14ad899f98/metadata (managed by Health Sciences Authority, last updated 2026-08-07 at check time).

Licence

Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0 (https://data.gov.sg/open-data-licence) — worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, commercial use permitted with attribution. Verified 2026-09-08: the dataset page shows “Open Data Licence” and the licence text covers datasets on data.gov.sg. Attribution notice (included in every tool response): Contains information from “Listing of Licensed Chinese Proprietary Medicine Products” (Health Sciences Authority) from data.gov.sg, made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0.

Tools

• tcm_product_search — Search ~12,000 Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) / Chinese Proprietary Medicine products licensed by Singapore’s Health Sciences Authority (HSA), sourced from data.gov.sg. Matches Chinese characters
• tcm_product_manufacturers — Manufacturers of Singapore HSA-licensed Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) / Chinese Proprietary Medicine products, aggregated from data.gov.sg with licensed-product counts and countries — the supply-