Use of Chinese herbal medicine terms in MeSH supplementary concept records / 中华医学图书情报杂志

ABSTRACT

Supplementary concept records ( SCB ) can effectively supplement and expand MeSH by forming the mapping between SCB and MeSH. Chinese herbal medicine terms indentified by MeSH Browser in SCB were analyzed in aspects of their distribution,single medicine,abstracted compositions,compound prescription,classical prescription, slef-made prescription, and use frequency,which showed the supplementary concepts in relation with Chinese herbal medicine and the existed problems. Suggestions were put forward for the use of Chinese herbal medicine terms in MeSH SCB, such as promoting their standardization, and use of standard terms when scientists publish their papers and retrieve papers from databases.