Analysis of Medication Rule of Ye Tian-shi in Treating Suspected Liver Cancer

OBJECTIVE To analyze and summarize the drug characteristics and prescription rule of Ye Tian-shi in the treatment of suspected liver cancer based on data mining technology. METHODS Refer to Ye Tian-shi Medical Complete Book of effective TCM prescriptions in the treatment of suspected liver cancer, establish TCM database, conduct standardized treatment, and use ancient and modern medical case cloud platform to conduct frequency statistics, cluster analysis, complex network analysis, etc. RESULTS The 64 effective prescriptions were included in this study, involving 129 Chinese medicine, such as Angelicae Sinensis Radix, Poria, Toosendan Fructus, Persicae Semen, Foeniculi Fructus, Cyperi Rhizoma, etc, had high frequency. The four Qi of traditional Chinese medicine was mainly warm, followed by flat and cold; the five flavors of traditional Chinese medicine were mainly pungent, followed by bitter and sweet; the channel tropism of traditional Chinese medicine were mainly spleen meridians, followed by liver and heart meridians; 22 drug combinations were obtained by association rules, and a total of 8 drug categories were obtained by cluster analysis. The core prescriptions were addition and subtraction based on Jinlingzi powder and Nuangan decoction. CONCLUSION Ye Tian-shi's treatment for suspected hepatocellular carcinoma is mainly treated by warming Yang and strengthening the body, eliminating phlegm and removing blood stasis, which provides a certain reference for the clinical treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma with traditional Chinese medicine.