Analysis of Herbal Formulation in TCM: Infertility as a case study

Simon K. Poon; Kei Fan; Josiah Poon; Clement Loy; Kelvin Chan; Paul Kwan; Zhou Xuezhong; Junbin Gao; Zhang Runshun; Yinghui Wang; Jinghong Xie; Baoyan Liu; Daniel Sze

doi:10.1109/BIBMW.2011.6112488

Analysis of Herbal Formulation in TCM: Infertility as a case study

Simon K. Poon, Kei Fan, Josiah Poon, Clement Loy, Kelvin Chan, Paul Kwan, Zhou Xuezhong, Junbin Gao, Zhang Runshun, Yinghui Wang, Jinghong Xie, Baoyan Liu, Daniel Sze

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Herbal prescription in Traditional ChineseMedicine (TCM) relies on the experience of the prescribingdoctor after appropriate diagnosis. The combination of herbschosen, though based on the various Classics, can varybetween patients with the same diagnosis. Furthermore, theunderlying principles for the choice of herbs are not welldefined, and the actual formations can also vary from doctorto doctor. We believe that the prescriptions are theembodiment of the wisdom of the successful doctors, in theprocess of diagnosis and treatment. Thus it is important toextract the wisdom and discover the knowledge important tothe understanding of TCM. The data mining technique employed for analysis here is the Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). This particular analytical method is adopted from social science study, where it is a small-N analysis,meaning that case number is small relative the number ofcausal factors. The results of this study in the form ofconfigurations indicate not only the herbs (present herbs)necessary for a positive outcome, but the choice of some otherherbs (absent herbs) may impact negatively on the outcome.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ITCM 2011
Subtitle of host publication	Second International Workshop on Information Technology for Chinese Medicine
Editors	Brian Chen
Place of Publication	United States
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	868-872
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781457716133
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBMW.2011.6112488
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops (BIBMW) - Atlanta, GA, USA, New Zealand Duration: 12 Nov 2011 → 15 Nov 2011

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Conference	IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops (BIBMW)
Country/Territory	New Zealand
Period	12/11/11 → 15/11/11

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Poon, S. K., Fan, K., Poon, J., Loy, C., Chan, K., Kwan, P., Xuezhong, Z., Gao, J., Runshun, Z., Wang, Y., Xie, J., Liu, B., & Sze, D. (2011). Analysis of Herbal Formulation in TCM: Infertility as a case study. In B. Chen (Ed.), ITCM 2011: Second International Workshop on Information Technology for Chinese Medicine (pp. 868-872). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBMW.2011.6112488

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