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Objective To identify the commonalities between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and diabetes mellitus (DM) to understand the mechanisms of Chinese medicine (CM) in different diseases with the same treatment. Methods A text mining approach was adopted to analyze the commonalities between RA and DM according to CM and biological elements. The major commonalities were subsequently verified in RA and DM rat...
Acupoint application therapy is one of the Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) external therapies, which has been used for coronary heart disease (CHD) treatment for a long time. The prescription of acupoint application therapy includes both Chinese herbal medicines (CHMs) and acupoints. This study aims to reveal the basic rules of acupoint selection in acupoint application therapy on CHD treatment...
Acne is the most common chronic inflammatory skin disease in adolescents and young adults. Many Chinese herbal medicines (CHMs) have been used in the treatment of acne and were proved to be effective and safe. There is growing need to investigate which CHMs are the most frequently prescribed herbs used to treatment acne and what were the molecular mechanisms of therapeutic effects of these CHMs. So...
In traditional Chinese medicine, rules of Li-Fa-Fang-Yao is of critical importance in clinical practices. Li-Fa-Fang-Yao, which means principles, methods, formulae, and Chinese herbal medicines respectively, indicate the four basic steps of diagnosis and treatment: determining the cause, mechanism and location of the disease according to the medical theories and principles, then deciding the treatment...
Checking the consistency of knowledge items between textbook and clinical practice is very important for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). According to the textbook of internal medicine of TCM, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a disease with four syndromes (also called pattern) and Feng-Han-Shi-Bi is the major one. Bisimulation is an equivalence relationship/method in formal methods which can be used...
Single Chinese herbal medicine is the basic element in traditional Chinese medicine's clinical treatment against disease. Then, it is an interesting and meaningful task to acquire knowledge of a single Chinese herbal medicine within the framework of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). In this paper, based on the knowledge of TCM, we explored the association rules of Danggui (Angelica sinensis in Latin)...
It is an interesting and meaningful thing to explore the associated networks between cold herb and hot herb within the framework of traditional Chinese medicine because they might be useful for both clinical practice and scientific research. In this study, focused on the fields of disease, pattern/syndrome, symptom, and decoction, we constructed the associated networks between cold herb and hot herb...
In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, deficiency pattern is a distinguished one among patterns in rheumatoid arthritis. As for the explanation of deficiency pattern in rheumatoid arthritis, traditional Chinese medicine explains the deficiency in organs of both liver and kidney. As for the modern medicine, no specific factor available to explain it. In this paper, we propose an approach through...
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