Research on Medication Rules of Chronic Gastritis and Allergic Rhinitis Based on the Complex System Entropy Clustering Method

1.1 Mining principle of herbal combinations The highlight of this research is providing a appropriate statistical method to find out medication rules of chronic gastritis and allergic rhinitis, which will help us to guarantee clinical effects for this two diseases. Five Viscera Tonifying Method (FVTM) was established by Prof. Gao Zhongying, a national prestigious and experienced practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). This method extends the implication of tonfiying method while making a break-through in traditional TCM theory. With this featured method in pattern identification and herbal prescription, Prof. Gao is famed for his significant clinical effects by using well-prescribed formula. Modified Lung Tonifying Decoction (LTD), a representative formula of five viscera tonifying method, is indicated and effective for various lung diseases. We employed complex system entropy cluster technique to mine the data of prescriptions by this prestigious and experienced TCM practitioner. It is clinically significant to explore prescription rules of herbal medicine in the treatment of lung diseases to guarantee clinical effects. According to statistics from World Health Organization (WHO), lung diseases have been one of the four leading diseases that pose great threatens to human health. Conventional treatment using western drugs proves to be advantageous yet its side-effects are hindering patient compliances and thus the clinical effects. There are over 1000 formula indicated for lung diseases, which have been developed in the 2000-year history of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Modern prestigious and experience TCM practitioners also have developed numerous their own effective formula based on inheriting the essence of prescription rules by ancient practitioners. To study the rules of these formulas is of great significance to facilitate the prescription rules of effective herbal treatment and to explore new formula for lung diseases. There have been very few studies on prescription rules of herbal medicine for lung diseases by prestigious and experienced TCM practitioners. This study employed complex system entropy cluster technique to mine the data of prescriptions of the prestigious and experienced TCM practitioner and to explore prescription rules of herbal medicine in the treatment of lung diseases to guarantee clinical effects.