Chronicles of formulae and set prescriptions in the past dynasties
10.3969/j.issn.1671-3982.2017.12.006
- VernacularTitle:历代方剂成方年代考
- Author:
Ya-Nan WANG
1
;
Bo GAO
;
Yan ZHU
Author Information
1. 中国中医科学院中医药信息研究所
- Keywords:
Formula;
Medical formulary;
Formulae database;
Chronicles of set prescriptions;
Data mining
- From:Chinese Journal of Medical Library and Information Science
2017;26(12):30-33
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To study the distribution of chronicles in formulae and set prescriptions and its reasons ac-cording to their source information.Methods After a standard table of formulae and set prescriptions sources was es-tablished according to the data of documented formulae and set prescriptions, their similarity was sequenced by measuring the edit distance using the string similarity algorithm. After it was checked, the chronicles of formulae and set prescriptions were calculated according to their documented first publication year.Results The emergence and development of formulae and set prescriptions were related with the laws of social stability and wars. The calcu-lated chronicles of formulae and set prescriptions were reliable.Conclusion Sequencing the similarity of formulae and set prescriptions can determine their emergence time, which is thus of great significance for calculating their dosages and may become supplementary method for abstracting information from the formulae and set prescriptions in the past dynasties.
