Herb Tcm

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HERB 2.0 (herb.ac.cn) — Traditional Chinese Medicine herb/ingredient/target/

7 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

herb_browse

Page through HERB 2.0's full herb, ingredient, target or disease list (7,263 herbs / 49,258 ingredients /

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herb_detail

Full record for one HERB id: herb (composition + traditional-use summary + predicted and literature

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herb_papers

List PubMed-cited papers in HERB's reference index — the literature backing herb/ingredient-target and

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herb_paper_detail

One reference's bibliographic record (journal, PubMed id, experiment type, phenotype) plus the specific

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herb_experiments

List HERB's transcriptomic experiments (herb/ingredient treatment vs. control, GEO-deposited) — the raw

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herb_experiment_detail

Differential-expression results for one HERB transcriptomic experiment: top up/down-regulated genes and

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/herb-tcm/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/herb-tcm/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"herb_search","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript 
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("herb_search", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("herb 2");