<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>In order to provide theoretical clues and data support for the use of
Chinese medicine clinical
drug,
experimental study of
Chinese materia medica and development of new
resources of
Chinese materia medica, the four properties as the core, the relationships of property, flavor, channel
tropism and
toxicity in
nature data of
Chinese materia medica were analyzed.</p><p><b>
METHOD</b>The spearman rank correlation
method was employed to analyze 8 356
Chinese drugs with characteristic of four properties from "
Chinese Herbal Medicine" based on data level
coding.</p><p><b>RESULT</b>It was discovered that four properties showed significant positive correlations with
tastes of "pungent and sweet" , channels of "
spleen" , "
stomach" , "
kidney" and "
toxicity" , but also showed significant negative correlations with
tastes of "bitter" and "
light" and six channels such as "
large intestine" , "
heart", "
bladder" , "
gallbladder" , "
small intestine" and "
lung" (in descending order of correlation ) (P <0. 01).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>It was indicated that the more hot the
Chinese medicine nature, the more possible it contained "
toxicity" ,
tastes of "pungent" and "sweet" , and the more possible it was belong to channels of "
spleen" , "
stomach" and "
kidney". As well, the more
cold the
Chinese medicine nature, the more possible it contained
tastes of "bitter" and "
light", and the more possible it was belong to six channels such as "
large intestine", etc.</p>