Author(s)

Rui Xu ¹, Hui Ding ²

Affiliation(s)

¹ Shaanxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, 712046, China
² Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xi'an, 710003, China

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ABSTRACT

Objective: To explore the prescription patterns of ancient Chinese medical literature on mouth sores and provide references and ideas for the treatment of mouth sores in Chinese medicine. METHODS: We searched the section of "Chinese Medical Canon" - "Formula Books" - "Comprehensive formula books", counted the prescriptions that met the inclusion criteria, and used the TCM transmission aid platform (V2.5) The Chinese herbal medicines were analyzed in terms of taste, meridian, frequency and clustering rules. RESULTS: 134 prescriptions were collected, involving 199 herbal medicines, and the drugs appearing ≥23 times in the order of licorice, scutellaria, asclepias, Huanglian, gardenia, rhubarb, maitong, and ginseng; there were 11 groups of drug combinations with frequencies ≥12 times; most of the bitter, sweet, and pungent herbs were used; the drug ascriptions were mainly in the stomach, spleen, and lung meridians; two groups of core combinations and one new prescription were deduced. CONCLUSION: This paper focuses on clearing heat and detoxifying toxins, tonifying the spleen and benefiting Qi, while protecting the spleen and stomach at the same time.

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Rui Xu, Hui Ding, Data Mining-Based Research on the Prescriptions of Ancient Chinese Medicine Prescription Book Type Documents for Mouth Sores. MEDS Chinese Medicine (2022) Vol. 4: 40-46. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/medcm.2022.040306.

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