Research on composing principle of anti-phthisis prescriptions based on complex system entropy method.

Author: Shihuan TANG ¹ ; Jianxin CHEN ; Hongjun YANG ; Bo WANG
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1. Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese medical sciences, Beijing 100700, China.
Publication Type:Journal Article
MeSH: Databases, Factual; Drug Prescriptions; Medical Informatics; methods; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary; drug therapy
From: China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica 2010;35(24):3368-3370
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract:
OBJECTIVEUsing complex system entropy method to analyze composing principle of anti-phthisis prescriptions.
METHODCollecting prescriptions for anti-phthisis and constructing database for it. Using revised mutual information, complex system entropy cluster to analyze association between herbs, core combinations of prescriptions.
RESULTBased on analysis of 477 cases of prescriptions, the frequency of each herb in the database is computed. Moreover, 36 frequently used combinations of herbs and 34 core combinations are mined from the database by complex system entropy method.
CONCLUSIONComplex system entropy method is able to mine composing principle of prescriptions.