EXPLORATION ON THE MEDICATION RULES OF WINTER DISEASE CURED IN SUMMER ACUPOINT APPLICATION FOR TREATMENT OF CHILDREN’S ASTHMA BY USING THE DATA MINING TECHNOLOGY

Abstract Objective To explore the medication rules of winter disease cured in summer with acupoint application in the treatment of childhood asthma. Methods Retrieve the prescriptions of winter disease cured in summer acupoint application for treatment of childhood asthma in Chinese Academic Journal Full-Text Database (CNKI,2013-2024), input these prescriptions into the TCM inherit aided platform (V2.5), and analyze the medication rules of winter disease cured in summer acupoint application for treatment of childhood asthma from 2013 to 2024 by data mining methods of the platform, such as compositive association analysis, improved mutual information method. Results Get 69 prescriptions for winter disease cured in summer acupoint application for treatment of childhood asthma involved 46 traditional Chinese medicine. In 46 traditional Chinese medicine, 6 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine were frequently (the frequency of using ≥10) used. The using frequency of 6 traditional Chinese medicine was up to 291, accounting for 74.8% in the frequency of all traditional Chinese medicine. The frequent traditional Chinese medicine combination was up to 26 in total, 10 of which were two kinds of traditional Chinese medicine combination, 10 of which were three kinds of traditional Chinese medicine combination, 6 of which were four or more traditional Chinese medicine combination. Conclusion The core traditional Chinese medicine combination corved white mustard seed, radix kansui, asarum, Rhizoma Corydalis, which could be used as the basal prescription of winter disease cured in summer acupoint application for treatment of childhood asthma for clinical reference.