Data Mining In The Study Of Pulse Diagnosis

Object:Pulse diagnosis is one of important method in TCM .It is difficult for common doctor to grasp it, the cases coming from ancient and modern ages is valuable wealth in TCM, it includes lots of relative precious experience, mining and putting in order the cases have important theoretic and practical significance , because of their different ages ,words' styles and parties, are big difficulties for sorting workers. So it is very essential to involve the computer data mining with the TCM pulse diagnosis .In the study we systematically sort about 3000 cases from Ming-qing Dynasty and modern ages, and analyze the inter-relationship among all aspects to explore a kind of new research method.Methods:1 .Data sorting: Dividing all the cases into disease, syndrome, tongue, pulse and symptom and putting all data into EXCEL table2.Data unifying: To unity diseases according to TCM text book-V, To unify syndromes according to Bagang, Zangfu, Weiqi-Yingxue overall analysis, to unify tongues according to its color, coat's color, and coat's color, and coat's quality, to unify pulse according to 28-pulses, to unify symptom according to main and subordinative symptom.3.Set up Data base4.Edit procedure on computer.5.Stastistics and analysis.Results:l.Disease-Pulse1 (n1%), Pulse2 (n2%X......Pulsex (nx%)(x41) 2.Pulse------Diseasei (HI%) Disease2 (n2%X ......Disease x (nx%)(n1%+n2%+ ......nx%=l,x110)3.symptom------Pulse1 (n1%) pulse2 (n2%) ......pulsex (nx%)(x 41) 4.Pulse------symptom1(n1%), symptom2(n2%)...... x 47(n1%+n2%+ ......nx%=l,x 47)Conclusion:The study successfully set up the relationship between disease and pulse pulse and disease syndrome and pulse pulse and syndrome. It's systematization and comprehension is superior to that being used today...