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Objective To explore the medication rules of state medical master Yan Zhenghua from the prescriptions. Methods After analyzed by the statistical report module and the data analysis module, the method of data-mining that including association rules and apriori algorithm was used to analyze the frequency of Poria and drug combination, the association rules between drugs and core drug combinations in Pro. Yan’s prescriptions via a database based on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) inheritance assist system. Results The prescriptions containing Poria were commonly used to treat vertigo, stomachache, diarrhea and other syndromes. The highest frequently used drugs were Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, Parched Semen Ziziphi Spinosae, and Caulis Polygoni Multiflori. The most frequently used drug combinations were “Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae, Poria”, “Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, Poria”, and“Poria, Parched Semen Ziziphi Spinosae”. The drug association rules that the confidence coefficient was more than 0.9 were “Carina→Oyster”, “Poria, Carina→Oyster”,“Oyster, Caulis Polygoni Multiflori→Carina”, and“Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae→Poria”. Conclusion The drugs in the prescriptions containing Poria that built by Pro. Yan mostly had the effects of regulating the flow of qi, relieving uneasiness of body and mind, and cooling the blood, which reflected the clearly thought when Pro. Yan made the prescriptions.
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Objective To analyze the rules of property of the drugs used by State Medical Master Yan Zhenghua in clinical.Methods The prescriptions used by Pro. Yan were collected to build a database, which was based on traditional Chinese medicine inheritance assistant software. After analyzed by the software, such as using the module to analyze the prescriptions, the medication characters of the prescriptions can be got from the database.Results Drugs of warm nature were used with the highest frequency 7998 times, followed by the cool 7866 times, leveling 6763 times, cold 3942 times, and hot 95 times. From the property of five flavors, the most used flavor of drugs was bitter 15260 times, followed by sweet 10810 times, pungent 10453 times, sour 2794 times, salty 1651 times, mild 1203 times, and astringency 186 times. In the frequency of the channel tropism involved, the highest is of liver channel 14237 times, followed by lung 10452 times and spleen 10061 times.Conclusion Pro. Yan was accustomed to using the drugs that were of warm and cool natures, and sweet and pungent flavors, and also the drugs that have action on the collateral channels of liver, lung and spleen, which were the same as the experience from Pro. Yan.
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ObjectiveTo investigate the rule and characteristics of herbs used by Professor YAN Zheng-hua to treat digestive common diseases.Methods253 prescriptions of treating digestive diseases were searched.Medications for stomach ache,epigastric fullness,abdominal pain,diarrhea,constipation were analyzed by data mining and statistic method.ResultsThe common medications for stomach ache include Dried tangerine peel,Cyperus rotundus,White peony root and the most commonly used two-drug compatibility is “Dried tangerine peel and white peony root” (65.85％) ; common medications for epigastric fullness include Dried tangerine peel,Amomum villosum,Cyperus rotundus and the most commonly used two-drug compatibility is “Dried tangerine peel and Amomum villosum” (64.02％) ; common medications for abdominalpain include Tuckahoe,Dried tangerine peel,Red peony root and the most commonly used two-drug compatibility is “Tuckahoe and Dried tangerine peel” (50％) ; common medications for diarrhea include Tuckahoe,fried Malt,fried Grain buds and the most commonly used two-drug compatibility is “Tuckahoe and Atractylodes macrocephala” (67.5％) ; common medications for constipation include Radix Polygoni multiflori,Chinses Angelica,Semen Cassiae and the most commonly used two-drug compatibility is “Atractylodes macrocephala and Chinses Angelica” (56.52％) and “Hemp seed and Chinses Angelica” (56.52％).Conclusion Professor YYAN Zheng-hua believed that soothing the liver and regulating Qi,and regulating spleen and stomach is the basic therapeutic principle for digestive diseases.
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Objective To explore medication rule of vertigo and headache of TCM master Yan Zhenghua.Methods In this study,44 prescriptions for vertigo and 32 prescriptions for headache were collected and analyzed based on ACCESS database.Results The three most commonly used herbs in prescription for vertigo are red peony root (100％),white peony root (79.5％),and gastrodia tuber (65.9％),and the most commonly used two-drug compatibility is red peony root and gastrodia tuber (61.4％) ; the three most commonly used herbs in prescription for headache are red peony root (68.8％),tribulus terrestris (68.8％),and white chrysanthemums (65.6％),and the most commonly used two-drug compatibility is red peony root and tribulus terrestris (59.4％).Conclusion Professor Yah Zhenghua's basic governing method to treat vertigo and headache ispromote blood circulation and relieve painandpacify the liver to subdue yang.
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Professor YAN Zheng-hua is a state-level renowned veteran TCM doctor,intangible cultural heritage and educator of TCM.He has made an outstanding contribution to the development of TCM and Pharmacy.At present,Professor YAN Zheng-hua adheres to practice in clinic although he is over 90 years old.He considers 'wind-cold,wind-hot,dampness and summer' as the main four categories of cold disease.In clinical practice,Professor YAN Zheng-hua likes using famous TCM prescription such as Jingfang Baidu San,Xiangsu San,Yinqiao San,Huoxiang Zhengqi San,etc.flexiblly under the comprehensive consideration of symptoms and signs.
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Professor YAN Zheng-hua is a state-level renowned old doctor,intangible cultural heritage heir and educator ofTCM.He has made an outstanding contribution to the development ofTCM and Pharmacy.At present, Professor YAN Zheng-hua adheres to practicing in clinic although he is over 90 years old.He emphasizes"deficiency and excess"as the key link and‘qi,blood,cold,hot,deficiency,excess'as the global principle to treat stomachache.In clinical practice, Professor YAN Zheng-hua is expert in using famous TCM prescriptions such as Xiangsu San, Zuojin Wan,Yiguan Jian etc.flexiblly under the consideration ofsymptoms and syndrome.
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Prof Yan(1920-)is one of the first batch of National Famous Traditional Chinese Doctors conferred by the national government.He is a well-known clinical physician and educator in TCM.He also is the representative inheritor of National Intangible Cultural Heritage Project conferred by Ministry of Culture.Prof YAN as one of a few prominent doctors is now still persisting in clinic.He did great contribution to development of TCM.The author,as his academic inheritor,followed his clinical practice for years and understood his academic thoughts from mouth-heart-teaching.Then the author summarized his clinical experience and strategy of prescription.The article may be a reference for inheritance of Prof Yan's academic thoughts.