Study on the combination method of TCM syndrome factors of pneumonia based on document data / 中华中医药杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective: To study the distribution,combination law of syndrome factors and characteristics of base syndromes of pneumonia based on document data.Methods: Combined methods of computer retrieval and man-made retrieval were adopted,the document data from 1981 to 2004 on lower respiratory tract infection was gathered by way of document database index.And the data was analyzed by description,Logistic regression and clustering analysis.Results: 32 documents and 141 items were used for analysis.The results indicated that among the 17 syndrome factors related to syndrome differentiation of pneumonia,the highest frequency of location syndrome factor was lung;the frequency of f ire,heat and yin-def iciency was higher;pathogenic wind,pathogenic heat and phlegm were the main etiological factors.In the document study,there were four patterns in the combinative model of syndrome factors,the combination of two syndrome factors and the combination of three syndrome factors were the main patterns,the cumulative percentage was 95.7%.Meanwhile,the main symptoms and the sub-symptoms of the mainly syndromes were screened out by adopting statistical description,logistic regression and clustering analysis.Conclusion: The main syndrome types and their inscapes of pneumonia can provide enough references for the next step research.