Association Rules for Traditional Chinese Medicine Treating Allergic Asthma on Data Mining

OBJECTIVE Explore the rules of traditional Chinese medicine treating Allergic asthma. METHODS Took traditional Chinese medicine and allergic asthma as the main subject, searched the related journal literatures of CNKI(January 2008 to August 2018), collected the prescriptions recorded in literatures, established a database and conducted statistical analysis. Statistical software Excel 2013, SPSS Clementine 12.0 and SPSS Statistics 19.0 were used to conduct association rule analysis for the included traditional Chinese medicine. RESULTS A total of 48 journal literatures were included, containing 98 tastes of traditional Chinese medicine, with a total frequency of 455 times. Among the 98 Chinese medicines, there were 30 Chinese medicines with frequency ≥ 5 and 12 Chinese medicines with frequency ≥ 10. In the efficiency category, antiasthmatic drugs for relieving phlegm and cough, tonic drugs for deficiency and antiseptic drugs were the most common, accounting for 74.31%; Among the medicinal flavors, sweet, bitter and bitter were the most common, while warm, plain and cold were the most common;In the classification of meridians, lung, spleen and heart meridians were the most common. In association rule analysis, the drug combination with the highest association intensity was found to be 7. CONCLUSION Traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of allergic asthma is mostly used for cough and antiasthmatic drugs, and mostly combined with tonifying deficiency drugs.