BP model for relation between anti-aging and four natures, five flavors and meridian tropism of Chinese prescription medicine / 中国中药杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To establish a scientific, rapid anti-aging prediction model.</p><p><b>METHOD</b>According to the institutional principle of Chinese prescription medicine and by using the theory and method of artificial neural network, a BP model was built up to cope with the relation between anti-aging and four natures, five flavors as well as meridian tropism of Chinese medicinal herbs.</p><p><b>RESULT</b>The accuracy that the model predicted the prescription's anti-aging index of superoxide dismutase (SOD), malondialdehyde (MDA), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-PX) was 93. 33%.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The model can predict the efficacy of anti-aging prescription very well.</p>