Term Selecting Research on “Traditional Chinese Medicine Function Classification” for the Revision of Chinese Traditional Medicine and Materia Medica Subject Headings / 中国中医药信息杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To study the term selecting principles and methods for TCM function classification of the Chinese Traditional Medicine and Materia Medica Subject Headings;To provide basis for revision of new terms.Methods According to general rules of vocabulary compiling and word frequency statistics, relevant database retrieval results and some other materials, such as Chinese Pharmacopoeia (2010 edition), Chinese Medicine Dictionary and Chinese Materia Medica, were referred to conduct the study on the terms of TCM function classification in 2008, and then the subject headings were determined.ResultsThe table of TCM function classification has 1679 subject headings, among which 39 are planned to be deleted, 135 are to be added and 8 are to be modified. Adjustment of these subject headings is conducted according to the efficacy classification of TCM.ConclusionNew version of TCM function classification subject headings are mainly according to word frequency. The subject headings are mainly classified according to main efficacy of TCM, with a purpose to avoid redundancy.