Rule-based text mining of traditional Chinese medicine patterns with Chinese herbal medicines and formulae on hypertension

Hongmei Zhou, Jing Yang, Jinrui Guo, Yahong Wang, Guang Zheng, Hongtao Guo, Yong Tan, Xiaoxia Ren, Rongfen Dong, Jinrong Zhang, Zhaoli Cui, Aiping LYU, Miao Jiang*, Yaoxian Wang

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Through several thousands years of clinical research and theoretical thoughts, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has accumulated rich experience on hypertension. However, the usage of Chinese herbal medicines (CHMs) in formulae is flexible in TCM clinical practice according to pattern differentiation. So, it is important to get the composition rules of Chinese herbal medicines through literatures. Based on the keyword list of Chinese herbal medicine, through the keyword filtering skill, we got the lists of Chinese herbal medicines. However, for Chinese herbal medicine, they are not only mentioned in the plain format of herb names, but also densely described in the form of formulae. As formulae are composed by Chinese herbal medicines according the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, so it is necessary to filtering them out and de-compose them back into specified Chinese herbal medicines. In this study, take hypertension for example, we explored the composition-rules of Chinese herbal medicines and the network of TCM pattern with them. Networks of TCM patterns and CHMs which are most frequently used in hypertension treatment are built-up and analyzed, some regularities are obtained in treating hypertension from 175011 records of literature. And this method could provide useful help for TCM clinical application and Chinese medicine research.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, IEEE BIBM 2013
Pages332-335
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event2013 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, IEEE BIBM 2013 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 18 Dec 201321 Dec 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, IEEE BIBM 2013

Conference

Conference2013 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, IEEE BIBM 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period18/12/1321/12/13

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Biomedical Engineering

User-Defined Keywords

  • Chinese herbal medicine
  • Decoction
  • Hypertension
  • Pattern
  • Traditional Chinese medicine

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