ABSTRACT
This study was aimed to analyze the "disease-syndrome-treatment-medicine" experiences of professor Ding for diabetes combined with hypertension by using "traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) inheritance support system (V2.5)".By analyzing the data,we summarized Professor Ding's academic experiences.Through collecting the standard clinical cases,combined with the software analysis system,the composing principles were analyzed by using data mining methods such as frequency statistics,revised mutual information,association rules analysis,cluster analysis,improvement of mutual information,complex system entropy clustering,unsupervised hierarchical clustering entropy and so on.The analysis results showed that 28 patients with diabetes combined with hypertension of yin-deficiency and yang-hyperactivity syndrome,the characteristics were discovered that the highest-frequency used drugs of Ping Gan Xi Feng were concha haliotidis,concha margaritifera,rhizoma gastrodiae;the highest-frequency used drug combinations were "radices rehmanniae,rhizoma dioscoreae","folium mori,cortex mori","semen cuscutae,rhizoma dioscoreae,radices rehmanniae" and so on.Analyzing the 27 patients with diabetes combined with hypertension "wind and fire evils stir up syndrome,the characteristics were discovered that the highest-frequency used drugs of Ping Gan Xi Feng were concha haliotidis,concha margaritifera.In addition to the most common combinations used in diabetes,there were "rhizoma coptidis,spica prunellae","spica prunellae,folium mori","rhizoma coptidis,radices rehmanniae,cortex lycii","spica prunellae,folium mori,rhizoma coptidis" and so on.It was concluded that the syndrome differentiation and treatment of diabetes combined with hypertension was focused on the etiology and pathogenesis of wind and fire.The main treatment principle was to calm the liver to stop the wind,nourish yin and suppress hyperactive yang.