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ObjectiveTo explore the syndrome and treatment rules of traditional Chinese medicine （TCM） in treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease （COPD） based on the medical literature and cases with the help of TCM inheritance support system platform （V2.5）， thus providing new ideas for TCM to treat COPD. MethodThe medical cases of TCM treating COPD were retrieved from China national knowledge infrastructure （CNKI）， Wanfang Database， and VIP China Science and Technology Journal Database. The medical cases that met the inclusion literature were collected in a new Word document， and then input into the TCM inheritance support system platform （V2.5） after data standardization. With the help of the algorithm carried by this software， the frequency statistics of "symptoms， syndrome types of TCM， Chinese medicine， and meridians of Chinese medicine" in the included COPD medical cases were performed， and the correlation analysis of the "prescription rules" in the included medical cases was carried out， thus excavating the potential core drug pairs and new prescriptions for the treatment of COPD. ResultA total of 103 articles were included with 126 medical cases and 131 diagnoses and treatments. According to statistics， the common symptoms of COPD were cough， expectoration， chest tightness， and asthma， and the common TCM syndromes included phlegm-heat obstructing lung， phlegm and blood stasis blocking lung， and lung-spleen Qi deficiency. The common TCM treatment methods included clearing heat and resolving phlegm， banking up earth to generate metal， and descending adverse and relieving dyspnea， among which the high-frequency Chinese medicines for the treatment of COPD were Pinelliae Rhizoma， Armeniacae Semen Amarum， Ephedrae Herba， Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium， and so on. The commonly used drug pairs included Asari Radix et Rhizoma-Pinelliae Rhizoma， Pinelliae Rhizoma-Schisandrae Chinensis Fructus-Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma， etc. Twelve new prescriptions for the treatment of COPD were found. ConclusionTCM believes that COPD is a lung disease formed by external evil， phlegm， blood stasis， and other pathological factors， with cough， phlegm， and asthma as the main symptoms. The main syndromes of COPD are phlegm-heat obstructing lung， phlegm and blood stasis blocking lung， and lung-spleen qi deficiency. "Strengthening the upright and dispelling evil" is the basic principle of the treatment COPD. In clinical， TCM methods with dispelling phlegm and removing blood stasis， and tonifying lung， spleen， and kidney should be adopted to treat COPD.
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This study was aimed to mine correlation between the cause and traditional Chinese medicine ( TCM ) syndrome of polycystic ovary syndrome ( PCOS ) from different angles and at different levels . The study found that the inherent laws of the cause and syndrome by the application of different statistical methods and data mining methods . The literature information database of PCOS was searched . And the Microsoft Office Excel and the Microsoft Office Access were used in the establishment o the database . And the SPSS17 . 0 was used as the statistical software . The Medisc-3S system was used as the mining tools to discover the rules between etiology and syndrome . The function of frequency statistics and complex networks were used to discover and summarize the TCM syndrome and treatment of PCOS . The TCM syndrome and treatment of PCOS were discov-ered and summarized according to the statistical results . And the results showed that three reasons of etiology and pathogenesis of PCOS contained kidney-deficiency , phlegm-dampness , and blood-stasis . The five types of TCM syndrome included spleen-kidney deficiency , kidney-deficiency and blood-stasis , spleen-deficiency and phlegm-dampness , kidney-deficiency and phlegm-dampness , kidney-deficiency and liver stagnation . It was concluded that the treatment should be mainly from kidney-tonification and assisted with blood-activation and phlegm-removing . The association rules and complex networks of data mining methods were applied in the lit-erature research of PCOS . The results provided literature references and statistical evidences for the phlegm-dampness accumulation in the uterus as the pathogenesis of PCOS , and the methods of kidney-tonification , blood-activation and phlegm-removing as the treatment principles .