Studies and reports of Chinese cut crude drugs dosage in clinical prescription of traditional Chinese medicine (section of pediatrics).
- Author:
Hong-Jun YANG
1
;
Shi-Huan TANG
;
Lu-Qi HUANG
;
Chao-Fan ZHOU
Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH: Adolescent; Child; Child, Preschool; Dosage Forms; Humans; Medicine, Chinese Traditional; methods; Pediatrics; methods; Prescriptions
- From: China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica 2008;33(20):2395-2400
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
OBJECTIVEStudy the actual dosage of clinical prescription in pediatrics of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and offer the consummate data for formulating the dosage standard of Chinese cut crude drug.
METHODWe made use of the methods of stratified sampling and random sampling to investigate 38 736 broth prescriptions of pediatrics of TCM in 21 various hospitals, 18 provinces, and constructed the database, then applied Weka KDD software to analyze.
RESULTWe identified the frequency and clinical dosage intervals of 300 drugs, and the practical dosage of 155 drugs. Most of drug's dosage centralized the four intervals: (3-6], (6-9], (9-12], (12-15], and the concrete dosage were 6, 9, 10, 12, 15 g, etc.
CONCLUSIONThe dosages in the pharmacopoeia are not coincided with the practical dosages in pediatrics, and demand to revise. This paper will offer the consummate data for formulating the new dosage standard.
