| Compatibility of nature and flavor of medicines is a special character in the theory of formula and medicine of TCM, and it is one of the basic theories for compatibility of formula. With deep research for TCM modernization, modern medical scientists explore the rule of compatibility of nature and flavor of medicines from four aspects, which include theoretical research, clinical research, experimental study and Computer quantification research. Among them the computer quantification method of using data processing and data mining technology is becoming a hot spot." Nature and Flavor " always refers to the property of the herbal medicine in the theory of TCM. It is an important basic theory of expounding mechanism of medicine function. The formula is composed of herbal medicines, and it also has the character of nature and flavor. We focus on "the nature and flavor of formula", and carry out this researchWe took general formulae as sample from Class Formula Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and do the data preparation according to the rules and regulations of data processing. Based on relative dosage and the quantification of nature and flavor of medicines, we design models of nature and flavor of formula of multi-dimensional macroscopic quantification expression,which include quantification model of four nature, quantification model of five flavor, quantification model of combination of nature and flavor.As two main parameters of multi-dimensional macroscopic quantification expression of nature and flavor of formula, the relative dosage and quantification number of Nature and Flavor of the medicine are important contents of this research. Firstly, according to the dosage fields of medicines. we transform the dosage for one day into relative dosage, which is basic quantification parameter in calculating the nature and flavor of formula. The nature and flavor of medicines herbs is another qualitative parameter, so it must be quantified reasonably too. Having these two suitable objective parameters, the scientificity and reliability of quantification expression for nature and flavor of formula has been guaranteed.The result shows that the multi-dimensional macroscopic quantification of nature and flavor of formula based on the relative dosage and quantification of nature and flavor of the medicines, is to have research on the compatibility rules of formula combined the qualitative and quantitative factors from the point of traditional theory of nature and flavor. The association analyses between the "nature and flavor of fonnula" and indications and functions of formula and medicines show that the nature and flavor of formula could reflect the character of formula factually and profoundly, and discover the compatibility rules of fonnula in a new special way. |