Study on differentiation and features of the medical records about constipation in ancient books with doctors Wumen medical school
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1673-4246.2019.09.017
- VernacularTitle: 明清吴门医家医籍便秘处方配伍特色分析研究
- Author:
Xiaopeng WANG
1
;
Yinzi YUE
2
;
Mingming SUN
1
;
Shuguang ZHEN
1
;
Shuai YAN
1
,
3
Author Information
1. Department of Colorectal Surgery, Suzhou TCM Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Suzhou 215009, China
2. Department of General Surgery, Suzhou TCM Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Suzhou 215009, China
3. School of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210023, China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Constipation (TCM);
Wumen doctor;
Traditional Chinese medicine schools;
Data mining;
Drug features;
Regularity of comparability;
Medicine pharmacologic literature (TCM)
- From:
International Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2019;41(9):992-997
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective:The characteristics of prescription medication for constipation in Wumen doctors in Ming and Qing Dynasties were analyzed by data mining method, so as to provide reference for the treatment of contemporary clinical constipation.
Methods:The Wumen medical school doctors in Ming and Qing Dynasties treating constipation in clinical case were selected for digital acquisition and process. The association rules and complex networks analysis were used for data mining in order to explore experience of famous doctors in Wumen medical treated constipation.
Results:A total of 202 cases records of constipation were collected from acient TCM books by the database of ancient books and literatures of library of Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The results showed that the highest syndromes of 202 prescriptions was Qi stagnation and yin deficiency, followed by damp-heat, blood deficiency and liver-stomach disharmony, and the top ten medicines for internal use were angelica, almond, arborvitae, flaxseed, pinellia, cistanche, dried rehamnnia root, radix paeoniae alba, rhubarb, poria, licorice, etc. The core medicine in pairs included the Platycodon grandiflorum-almonds, safflower-peach kernel, safflower-angelica and other drugs outside, carthami-semen pruni-Peach kernel, carthami-semen pruni-Angelica, carthami-angelica-peach, peony-rhubarb-magnolia.
Conclusions:Most of the doctors in the Ming and Qing Dynasties believed that constipation was based on deficiency and reality, took Xinrun Tongluo as its treatment method, and paid attention to the treatment of activating blood circulation, warming yang and regulating qi and resolving phlegm, and emphasized the relationship between constipation and lung, spleen, liver and kidney.
