Pharmacological Meaning of Noun Part in Traditional Chinese Medicine Effect Terminology

VernacularTitle:中药功效中名词性术语的现代药理学含义
Author: Haibo LIU ; Jiaju ZHOU
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Conventional effects of TCM; data mining; TCM informatics
From: World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2013;(4):620-627
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) effect terminology is usually composed of a verb-noun structure such as clearing lung, expelling wind, killing worm and etc. The noun part, indicating objects of the ac-tion of TCM, is usually involved with some core concepts of TCM theory system. In this research, the 30 volumes of TCM work, which is Zhong Hua Ben Cao, were set as data source of the analysis. We collected TCM effect terms from 1702 TCM items. The most commonly used nouns were extracted, including 6 organ nouns, 11 concept nouns, and 9 illness nouns. Combined with modern pharmacological activity data for the 1702 TCM items, chi-square analysis and Spearman correlation analysis were employed to profile the modern pharmacological meanings of these noun terms.