ThaiHerbMiner: A Thai Herbal Medicine Mining and Visualizing Tool

Thai Traditional Medicine (TTM) has a long history in Thailand and is nowadays considered an effective alternative approach to the modern medicine. One of the main knowledge in Thai traditional medicine is the use of various types of herbs to form medicines. Our main goal is to bridge the gap between the traditional knowledge and the modern biomedical knowledge. Using text mining and visualization techniques, some implicit relations from one source could be used to verify and enhance the knowledge discovery in another source. In this paper, we present our ongoing work, ThaiHerbMiner, a Thai herbal medicine mining and visualizing tool. ThaiHerbMiner applies text mining to extract some salient relations from a collection of PubMed articles related to Thai herbs. The extracted relations can be browsed and viewed using information visualization. Our proposed tool can also recommend a list of herbs which have similar medical properties.