Objective: The aim of this research is to uncover and explore the knowledge and experience of ancient Chinese traditional medicine concerning insomnia.Based on the frequency analysis and cluster analysis of different channel reducing drugs in sleepless prescriptions,the rule of medication and the key points of syndrome differentiation of channel reducing drugs used by ancient doctors in the treatment of insomnia were explored.Offering theoretical backing and medication direction to the clinical utilization of traditional Chinese medicine in treating insomnia by distinguishing and treating the syndrome.Methods: According to the requirements of data mining and statistical analysis,the software SPSS20.0 and the traditional Chinese medicine inheritance assistance platform 3.0system were used to write a program to convert the text data into digital variables,and assign "1" and "0" respectively,and establish the data set.By utilizing frequency analysis,cluster analysis,and association rule analysis data mining techniques,the concealed regularity data of different channel medications for insomnia was investigated.The outcomes were then amalgamated with traditional Chinese medicine and clinical practice theory.Results: Through data mining,it is concluded that in the medical cases of insomnia treated by ancient doctors,most of the drugs used in the heart channel,lung,spleen,liver,kidney and stomach channel were used as the second choice,and the drugs used in other viscera organs were relatively few.The guishin meridian medication is the most commonly employed drug in treating insomnia,with spleen meridian and lung meridian medications following closely.As time progressed,the frequency of drugs administered to the heart channel for treating insomnia in ancient physicians became more consistent;the drug into the liver channel augmented,while the rest of the viscera drugs were decreased.Data mining revealed that ginseng,licorice,sour jujube kernel,poria coia,angelica sinensis,Radix ophiopogonis,Fu Shen,cinnamon,ginger,ligusticum Chuanxiong and rehmanniae were the most commonly employed medications for treating insomnia.Conclusion:1.the main application way of ancient doctors to treat insomnia is to return to the heart meridian drugs,under the premise of heart meridian drugs,the application of lung,spleen,liver,kidney,stomach and other five viscera based drugs.Among the commonly used drugs,under the premise of applying Guixin channel,Guifei channel and spleen channel are mostly used.In insomnia patients,the cause of a lack of heart and spleen,as well as a lack of Yin fluid,may be attributed to the imbalance of Yin and Yang.2.When ancient doctors treated insomnia,the frequency of drugs used by returning to the liver channel increased with the age.Attention to the treatment of emotions in patients may be due to the state of social progress.Doctors have paid close attention to the syndrome of liver depression known as Qi stagnation or liver depression turns fire.The decrease in the application of reversion to kidney channel and reversion to stomach channel may be due to the decrease in the proportion of insomnia patients caused by heart-kidney disharmony type and "stomach disharmony leads to restlessness" type under the condition of increasing insomnia patients.3.According to the clustering analysis of the ancient famous doctors’ prescriptions for treating insomnia disease,three cluster prescriptions were obtained,which were liver nourishing and blood nourishing,Yin Anshen prescription: ginseng,licorice,angelica,sour jujube kernel,ophiopogon ophiopogon.And the stomach to reverse,diarrhea heat anshen prescription: gardenia,licorice,light tempeh,scutellaria,rhubarb.Sweet and light,anshen Dingzhi Fang: poria,ginseng,licorice,sour jujube kernel,Zhizhi. |