The Distribution and Association Relationships of Marine Chinese Medicine with Different Nature in the Phylogenetic Tree of Marine Organisms / 世界科学技术-中医药现代化

ABSTRACT

Marine Chinese Medicine (MCM) is one of the important part of the traditional Chinese medicine.The exploration of marine organism resources provide a good base for the development of MCM.However,the evaluation for the nature of the new source of MCM becomes one of the key problem of the clinic application of MCM.In this study,613 MCM and their related 1 091 species of marine organisms were screened.Association Rules Mining method and Phylogenetic Tree constructing method were used to find out the association relationship and the distribution regularity of the MCM with different nature in the Phylogenetic Tree.The results showed high collection of the MCM with the same nature on the tree.The MCM from the organisms in the same family might have the same nature.And the association rules for the same nature assembled at the same branch or near branch of the tree.For example,the marine plantae,Chlorophyta,Florideophyceae,and Phaeohpyceae,were related with cold nature,while the marine animalia,including Decapoda,Malacostraca,and Arthropoda,had close relationship with hot nature.Moreover,the neutral nature was related with Squamata.These results implied that there were close relationship between the nature and the affinity relationship.The MCM from the same or close families may have the same or likely nature.This study provided a new index and reference for prediction and evaluation of the nature of new MCM.