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

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

doi:10.1109/BIBMW.2011.6112488

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

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

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Abstract

Herbal prescription in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) relies on the experience of the prescribing doctor after appropriate diagnosis. The combination of herbs chosen, though based on the various Classics, can vary between patients with the same diagnosis. Furthermore, the underlying principles for the choice of herbs are not well defined, and the actual formations can also vary from doctor to doctor. We believe that the prescriptions are the embodiment of the wisdom of the successful doctors, in the process of diagnosis and treatment. Thus it is important to extract the wisdom and discover the knowledge important to the 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 of causal factors. The results of this study in the form of configurations indicate not only the herbs (present herbs) necessary for a positive outcome, but the choice of some other herbs (absent herbs) may impact negatively on the outcome.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops (BIBMW)
Editors	Brian Chen ... et al
Place of Publication	Los Alamitos, United States of America
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	868-871
ISBN (Print)	9781457716133, 9781457716126
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBMW.2011.6112488
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	ITCM 2011: Second International Workshop of Information Technology for Chinese Medicine within BIBM 2011: IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine - Atlanta, United States of America Duration: 12 Nov 2011 → 15 Nov 2011

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Conference	ITCM 2011: Second International Workshop of Information Technology for Chinese Medicine within BIBM 2011: IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine
City	Atlanta, United States of America
Period	12/11/11 → 15/11/11

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Decision Support and Group Support Systems
Traditional Chinese Medicine and Treatments
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining

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Poon, S., Fan, K., Kwan, P. H., Gao, J., Sze, D., Poon, J., Loy, C., Chan, K., Zhou, X., Zhang, R., Wang, Y., Xie, J., & Liu, B. (2011). Analysis of Herbal Formulation in TCM: Infertility as a case study. In B. Chen ... et al (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops (BIBMW) (pp. 868-871). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBMW.2011.6112488

Poon, Simon ; Fan, Kei ; Kwan, Paul H et al. / Analysis of Herbal Formulation in TCM : Infertility as a case study. Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops (BIBMW). editor / Brian Chen ... et al. Los Alamitos, United States of America : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011. pp. 868-871

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Poon, S, Fan, K, Kwan, PH, Gao, J, Sze, D, Poon, J, Loy, C, Chan, K, Zhou, X, Zhang, R, Wang, Y, Xie, J & Liu, B 2011, Analysis of Herbal Formulation in TCM: Infertility as a case study. in B Chen ... et al (ed.), Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops (BIBMW). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Los Alamitos, United States of America, pp. 868-871, ITCM 2011: Second International Workshop of Information Technology for Chinese Medicine within BIBM 2011: IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, Atlanta, United States of America, 12/11/11. https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBMW.2011.6112488

Analysis of Herbal Formulation in TCM: Infertility as a case study. / Poon, Simon; Fan, Kei; Kwan, Paul H et al.
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops (BIBMW). ed. / Brian Chen ... et al. Los Alamitos, United States of America: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011. p. 868-871.

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