Using The Data Mining Method To Analysis The Diagnositic And Therapeutic Rules Of TCM For Female Sterility

Objectives:Based on research samples of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) prescriptions to treat female sterility, this paper adopts data excavation method to analyze relative prescriptions, drugs and symptoms, and aims to explore TCM diagnostic and therapeutic rules in female sterility.Methods:After consulting related literatures, this paper has collected 925 TCM prescriptions to treat female sterility. Then, these prescriptions have been used by Access2003 database to build up a prescription library, which consists of prescription table, drug table, symptom table, drug addition and subtraction table. Based on analysis system for TCM, this paper uses frequency statistics, frequency sets, association rules, two dimension Boolean association rules, cluster analysis and some other Data Mining to carry out tests and analysis about female sterility distribution of symptoms, regulations of medicine usage, medicine-sickness connection and prescription-sign relevance.Results:This paper has made a statistics on 76 main symptoms,4840 frequency has appeared in total, which account for 95% in all symptoms. Scanty periods, blood clot, menstrual disorder, dark purple color, breast pain, waist-leg weakness, vaginal discharge, irritability and so on are the main symptoms of female sterility, which confirm to statistical analysis of symptoms and blood stasis, deficiency of the kidney, stagnation of liver-QI, phlegmatic hygrosis and some other pathogenesis. The prescriptions to treat female sterility of 342 medicinal herbs, which are used 9548 frequency in total. Though the statistics of 28 main species medicinal herbs,5370 frequency has used in total. Chinese angelica, radix paeoniae alba, chuanxiong, rehmannia, dodder, radix paeoniae rubra, bupleurum, epimedium, atractylodes, poria cocos and medlar are key medicinal herbs, which have the effect of nourishing the blood, invigorating the circulation of blood, tonifying kidney, sootheing the liver, tonifying spleen. The above results are correspond to drug related statistical analysis and the pathological factors of female sterility, such as, weak, stagnant, gloomy, humid. Meanwhile, the medicine sickness connection, prescription-sign relevance and medicine cluster analysis also prove the above results.Conclusions:To treat female sterility, the four diagnostic methods of TCM (observation; auscultation and olfaction; interrogation; pulse feeling and palpation) should be valued, including menstrual color, menstrual quality, menstrual cycle, menstrual period, the amount of menstrual. Clinically, vaginal discharge symptoms, and the symptoms of abdomen, waist, breast and some other position related to female sterility should be heeded. For deficiency of the kidney, blood stasis, stagnation of liver-QI, phlegmatic hygrosis and some other pathogenesis of female sterility, the Clinical medicine we used should have the effect of tonifying kidney nourishing the blood, invigorating the circulation of blood, sootheing the liver, tonifying Qi, tonifying spleen and clearing damp. Clinically, Qi and blood, liver and kidney, spleen and kindney should be treated at the same time. For the obstruction of Chong and Ren pulse, the corresponding drugs should be used. In addition, according to the different primary affection of female sterility, the corresponding symptomatic drugs should be used. Nourishing the blood, invigorating the circulation of blood, tonifying kidney, sootheing the liver, tonifying spleen.