TCM LLM · Datasets

TCM LLM datasets

Public datasets for training and evaluating TCM LLMs: instruction data, case QA, formulas, classical corpora, and benchmarks.

Maintained by Yang Tan · synced with Awesome-TCM-LLM · 85 entries

dataset · 2026.07 · Figshare

TCM-RobustSDT

TCM-RobustSDT: a robustness benchmark dataset for LLM clinical reasoning in TCM (Figshare).

dataset · 2026.05 · ScienceDB

HSQ-TD(健身气功指令微调数据集)

HSQ-TD: the first instruction-tuning dataset for health Qigong/wellness, with 57,843 instructions distilled from official textbooks and professional literature (ScienceDB).

dataset · 2010

OASIS (KIOM)

KIOM traditional-medicine literature portal for Korean-medicine papers and herbal resources.

dataset · 2026

Korean Medicine Embedding Dataset

Query–positive–negatives (~113k pairs) built from Korean-medicine terms and an ontology, for embedding fine-tunes such as BGE-M3.

dataset · 2012 · Plant and Cell Physiology · IPB University / Nara Institute of Science and Technology / Tokushima Bunri University / Chiba University

KNApSAcK KAMPO

NAIST Kampo public database (~1,581 formulas, 278 crude drugs), downloadable from the NBDC life-science archive.

dataset · 2019 · BMC Med Inform Decis Mak · 中国科学院 / Institute of Acoustics

webMedQA

Early Chinese non-factoid medical QA from health-consult sites (~63k questions, one positive and four negative answers each).

dataset · 2022 · Bioinformatics · 复旦大学 / 天津大学

IMCS-21

About 4,116 pediatric online consults annotated for entities, intents, symptoms, and reports; later wired into four CBLUE dialogue tasks.

dataset · 2022 · ACL

CBLUE

Chinese biomedical NLU benchmark (NER, relations, diagnosis normalization, classification); the source-task suite behind PromptCBLUE, with a Tianchi submission portal.

dataset · 2019

CMeKG

Chinese medical knowledge graph of diseases, drugs, and symptoms; main source for BenCao/HuaTuo and ChatGLM-Med instruction data. Official portal is unstable; verify via the tools repo.

dataset · 2020 · arXiv

MedDialog

Large doctor–patient dialogue corpus (about 1.1M Chinese encounters) used for multi-turn Chinese medical fine-tuning.

dataset · 2018

cMedQA2

Chinese community medical QA (~108k questions / 200k answers), a common source for BianQue-style SFT mixtures.

dataset · 2017 · Applied Sciences · National University of Defense Technology

cMedQA

Chinese community medical QA-matching set (repo table ~54k questions / 102k answers; non-commercial research). Paper DOI matches the README; see cMedQA2 for the later release.

dataset · 2023 · arXiv

ChiMed (Qilin)

Qilin-Med's ~3GB Chinese medical corpus (CPT/SFT/DPO); not the same resource as the ChiMed 2.0 pretraining set.

dataset · 2023 · arXiv

DISC-Med-SFT

Fudan DISC medical-dialogue SFT set (~470k examples from KG triples and reconstructed consults; no preference data).

dataset · 2023

PromptCBLUE

CBLUE's 16 Chinese medical NLP tasks rewritten as generative instructions; an early unified Chinese medical LLM leaderboard (CCKS 2023).

dataset · 2023 · arXiv

Huatuo-26M

Largest open Chinese medical QA resource (~26M pairs from encyclopedias, KGs, and consults); Huatuo-Lite is the usual SFT/RAG subset.

dataset · 2023 · arXiv

CMExam

Chinese medical licensing-exam set (~68k annotated items) used as a knowledge-recall baseline by Chinese medical and TCM LLMs.

dataset · 2023 · arXiv

CMB

FreedomIntelligence comprehensive Chinese medical benchmark (CMB-Exam ~280k items plus CMB-Clin cases); the most common non-TCM comparison board in TCM LLM papers.

dataset · 2015 · BMC Complement Altern Med · Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine / Seoul National University / Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology

TM-MC

KIOM literature-derived Northeast Asian medicinal-material–compound database; the 2015 release covers ~536 materials, and the 2024 2.0 paper expands to ~34k compounds. Official site currently times out.

dataset · 2013 · J Cheminform · 北京大学 / Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences / State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Application

CVDHD

Cardiovascular herbal database of 3D compound structures, targets, and pathways for virtual screening and network pharmacology. Original Peking University site currently times out.

dataset · 2008 · BMC Complement Altern Med · National Taiwan University / National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

TCMGeneDIT

Text-mined associations among TCM, genes, diseases, effects, and ingredients, with pathway and PPI links. Official NTU site no longer resolves.

dataset · 2017 · Sci Rep · 华中科技大学

TCM-Mesh

Herb–compound–gene–disease network with toxicity/side-effect records (~6,235 herbs). Official portal currently returns 403; verify via the open paper.

dataset · 2018 · J. Chem. Inf. Model. · 中山大学 / 广州中医药大学

TCMAnalyzer

RCDD chemo-/bioinformatics service for formula/herb/ingredient networks and scaffold search (~1,493 formulas, 618 herbs). Official rcdd.org.cn currently times out.

dataset · 2021 · Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy · Development Research Center of the State Council / China Scholarship Council / King's College London / 四川大学

SuperTCM

Charité biocultural TCM resource linking drugs, botanical species, ingredients, targets, KEGG pathways, and diseases (~6,516 drugs). Official tcm.charite.de no longer resolves.

dataset · 2024 · Nucleic Acids Research · 复旦大学 / 清华大学 / Shenzhen Bay Laboratory , Shenzhen 518000 , China

CMAUP

BIDD landscape of multi-target activities, pathways, and diseases for useful plants including TCM herbs; 2024 update, downloadable from the official site.

dataset · 2023

DCABM-TCM

Literature-mined blood constituents and metabolites of TCM prescriptions and herbs, with experimental detection conditions (~1,816 structured absorbed constituents).

dataset · 2023 · Briefings in Bioinformatics · 上海中医药大学 / 广州中医药大学

ITCM

Integrated formula/herb/ingredient/target platform plus 1,488 pharmacotranscriptomic profiles for 496 TCM ingredients (expression data also on Synapse).

dataset · 2023 · Sig Transduct Target Ther · 中山大学 / 澳门科技大学

TCMBank

Large downloadable herb–ingredient–target–disease resource with literature-mining updates after manual checks.

dataset · 2018 · Comput Struct Biotechnol J · 中国科学院

YaTCM

About 1,813 prescriptions, 6,220 herbs, and 47k natural products with target/pathway tools. Nankai site currently returns 403; verify via the open-access paper.

dataset · 2015 · Oncotarget · 四川大学

CEMTDD

Ethnic-minority herbal–compound–target–disease resource (~621 herbs, mainly Uygur/Kazakh). Original cemtdd.com now hosts something else; verify via the PMC paper.

dataset · 2020 · Front. Pharmacol. · Guangdong Academy of Sciences / Institute of Microbiology / 广州中医药大学 / Traditional Chinese Medicine Bureau of Guangdong Province

TCMIO

Immuno-oncology TCM database of prescriptions, herbs, ingredients, targets, and pathways, with downloads and a REST API.

dataset · 2022 · Pharmacological Research · Cloud Computing Center / Tasly Holding Group (China)

LTM-TCM

Symptom–prescription–plant–ingredient–target platform linking 14 source databases plus clinical and classical records (~48k formulas). Official Tasly cloud no longer resolves; verify via the paper DOI.

dataset · 2022 · Nucleic Acids Research · 同济大学 / International Human Phenome Institutes (Shanghai), Shanghai, China / 复旦大学

HIT 2.0

Manually curated herbal-ingredient–target activity pairs (~1,237 ingredients / 2,208 targets, 2000–2020 literature). Portal opens; the analysis backend port is currently down (marked site issue).

dataset · 2011 · PLoS ONE · Asia University / China Medical University / Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TCM Database@Taiwan

About 20k isolated-compound 2D/3D structures from 453 TCM materials for virtual screening. Original tcm.cmu.edu.tw is unreachable; verify via the PLOS paper.

dataset · 2024 · Nucleic Acids Research · College of Life Sciences, Hebei University , Baoding 071002 , China / 北京中医药大学 / Beijing Geneworks Technology Co., Ltd , Beijing 100101 , China

BATMAN-TCM 2.0

Known and predicted TCM ingredient–target protein interactions, with greatly expanded TTI coverage and target-to-ingredient search.

dataset · 2019

SymMap 2.0

Herb–TCM symptom–modern symptom–ingredient–target–disease maps, expanded with newer pharmacopoeia records and downloadable relationship tables.

dataset · 2025 · Nucleic Acids Research · 北京中医药大学 / 中国科学院 / 四川大学 / 广州中医药大学

HERB 2.0

Evidence-centered TCM resource integrating clinical trials, meta-analyses, high-throughput experiments, literature, and a knowledge graph.

dataset · 2023 · Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B · 中国医学科学院 / 中国科学院 / Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica / Guiyang Medical University

ETCM 2.0

Encyclopedia of TCM formulas, patent drugs, materia medica, and ingredients with target prediction and multi-scale networks; v1 site remains online.

dataset · 2006

TCM-ID

NUS BIDD formula–herb–ingredient–target resource covering pharmacopoeia, classical, and CFDA-approved prescriptions; not the same database as TCMID 2.0.

dataset · 2018 · Nucleic Acids Research · 华东师范大学

TCMID 2.0

Integrative formula–herb–ingredient–target database (distinct from NUS TCM-ID). Original megabionet site is down; verify via Zenodo extract and the NAR paper.

dataset · 2014 · J Cheminform · North West Agriculture and Forestry University / Northwest A&F University / Dalian University of Technology / Dalian University

TCMSP

Herb–ingredient–target–disease networks with ADME parameters; public site is TCMSP 2.3 with downloadable relationship tables.

dataset · 2022

TCM-QG

About 5,000 TCM documents and 13,000 question-answer pairs from CHIP2020, for knowledge-base expansion and question generation (CC BY-SA 4.0).

dataset · 2018 · TKDE · 浙江大学

TCM-PD

Yao et al. TKDE 2018 prescription topic-model set (98,334 raw / 33,765 processed symptom–herb ID pairs). CKCEST copyright, research use only. PresRecST's prescript_1195.csv is a reproduction table.

dataset · 2024 · JAMIA · 北京交通大学 / 中国中医科学院 / 河南中医药大学

TCM-Lung

Pulmonary-disease cases from FAH-HUCM (14,948 processed; 4,484 encoded public rows of symptom/syndrome/method/prescription IDs). Full names on request. Not the same resource as TCMNSCLC.

dataset · 2022 · CCL

TCM-SD

First large public TCM syndrome-differentiation text benchmark (54,152 real records, 148 syndromes, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Full set is in the repo folder TCM_SD_with_knowledge; Tianchi id 139034.

dataset · 2022

TCM-NER

1,997 Chinese-medicine package inserts with 59,803 entities in 13 types for building a medication knowledge graph (OpenKG / CHIP, CC BY-SA 4.0).

dataset · 2025

TCM_KG

ChatMed knowledge graph.

dataset · 2025

TCM-MKG

TCM multi-dimensional knowledge graph.

dataset · 2026 · arXiv

LingShu(灵枢知识图谱)

Symptom-centric contextual KG bridging TCM and biomedicine (~17.33M entities, ~39.47M relations including triples and contextual quadruples), with a portal for visualization, reasoning, and evidence-grounded QA.

dataset · 2025 · arXiv

OpenTCM-KG

OpenTCM gynecology classics KG (~48k entities / ~152k relations).

dataset · 2026 · Zenodo

TCMNSCLC

Real-world NSCLC TCM reasoning dataset with fully annotated cases (pattern differentiation / treatment method / decoction / patent medicine).

dataset · 2024 · arXiv

ChP-TCM

KnowledgeQA and PrescriptionWriting instructions built from Chinese Pharmacopoeia Vol. I.

dataset · 2025

Traditional-Chinese-Medicine-Dataset-SFT

High-quality TCM supervised fine-tuning dataset.

dataset · 2025

TCMChat-dataset-600k

TCMChat herbal QA and recommendation instruction data (~600k).

dataset · 2025

TCM-Instruction-Tuning-ShizhenGPT

ShizhenGPT multimodal SFT data (text/vision/speech/ECG etc.; ~311k items total per paper Table 3).

dataset · 2025

ShenNong_TCM_Dataset

ShenNong TCM instruction dataset.

dataset · 2025

MedChatZH

MedChatZH TCM consultation dataset.

dataset · 2025

ChatMed_Consult_Dataset

Chinese online medical consult dataset (500k+ consults with ChatGPT replies).

dataset · 2025

CMtMedQA

ZhongJing real multi-turn doctor–patient dialogues (~70k).

dataset · 2025

Baize-TCM-Corpus-V3

~157k TCM QA items covering theory, herbs, formulas, diagnosis, acupuncture, and clinic.

dataset · 2026

neijing-sft-v1.2

~2,009 Neijing-related instruction samples for Xinghe, with thinking/output fields.

dataset · 2025

TCM-Text-Exams

Recent TCM licensure / graduate-exam text benchmark.

dataset · 2025

Medical-LLMs-Chinese-Exam

Chinese medical exam evaluation for medical LLMs.

dataset · 2025

ZhongJing-OMNI

ZhongJing-OMNI multimodal TCM eval (including tongue).

dataset · 2025 · Scientific Data · 中国医学科学院 / 北京协和医学院 / Leipzig University / 中国中医科学院

TCMEval-SDT

TCMEval-SDT: a benchmark of 300 syndrome-diagnosis cases (web, classical texts, hospital records) for evaluating TCM syndrome-differentiation reasoning, with FAIR metadata (Sci. Data 2025).

dataset · 2025 · arXiv

TCMBench

TCMBench: a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating LLMs in traditional Chinese medicine (arXiv 2024).

dataset · 2025

TCM-Vision-Benchmark

TCM vision benchmark (herb recognition / inspection, ~7k items).

dataset · 2025 · arXiv · Beijing Technology and Business University

TCM-Tongue

6,719 standardized tongue images with 20-class multi-label pathology annotations and detection baselines.

dataset · 2025 · arXiv

TCM-Ladder

TCM-Ladder: a multimodal QA benchmark for comprehensively evaluating TCM multimodal LLMs on real-world tasks (arXiv 2025).

dataset · 2025 · arXiv

TCM-Eval

Dynamic, extensible TCM evaluation platform.

dataset · 2025 · arXiv

TCM-BEST4SDT

Case benchmark for syndrome differentiation and treatment.

dataset · 2025 · arXiv

TCM-5CEval

Five-dimension deep TCM evaluation suite.

dataset · 2025 · arXiv

TCM-3CEval

Three-axis eval: core knowledge, classics, clinical decisions.

dataset · 2025 · arXiv

MTCMB

MTCMB dataset: a multi-task TCM benchmark covering knowledge, reasoning and safety, 12 subsets with ~7,100 samples (arXiv 2025).

dataset · 2025

HWTCMBench

HWTCMBench TCM capability evaluation set.

dataset · 2026 · Sci Data · 北京中医药大学 / 中国医学科学院 / 北京协和医学院 / Changchun University of Chinese Medicine

TCMEval-PA

328 multiple-choice items on prescription normative quality and safety auditing.

dataset · 2026 · IEEE TNSRE · Ningbo Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ningbo, China

TCM-AQA61

Dual-view acupuncture and Tuina action-quality videos from 61 subjects each (first- and third-person), with expert categorical and continuous ratings; paired with the CME-AQA cross-view multimodal assessment framework.

dataset · 2026 · arXiv

LingLan

LingLan large multi-task TCM evaluation benchmark (2026).

dataset · 2025 · arXiv

ChiMed 2.0

Upgraded Chinese medical pretraining dataset covering TCM corpora for LLM pretraining.

dataset · 2025

classical-tcm-canon

Full-text digitizations of the TCM canon: Neijing, Nanjing, Shanghan Lun, Jingui Yaolue and warm-disease classics.

dataset · 2025

Traditional-Chinese-Medicine-Dataset-Pretrain

High-quality TCM pretraining dataset from non-Internet sources (~1GB; clinical cases, classics, encyclopedia), 99% simplified Chinese.

dataset · 2025

TCM-Pretrain-Data-ShizhenGPT

ShizhenGPT pretraining corpus (15B+ tokens reported in the paper — Stage-1 text 11.92B incl. 6.3B TCM, plus Stage-2 multimodal ~3.6B).

dataset · 2025

TCM-Ancient-Books

A corpus of nearly 700 TCM ancient-book texts.

dataset · 2025

awesome_Chinese_medical_NLP

Curated list of Chinese medical NLP resources: terminologies, corpora, word vectors, pretrained models, KGs, NER and QA (incl. CBLUE).

dataset · 2025 · Pharmacological Research · 中国医学科学院 / 中国中医科学院 / 北京大学 / Zhejiang Chinese Medical University

CPM中成药数据集

Living large-scale public Chinese patent medicine data accompanying RAG-CPMF.