Research Article

Data Mining of Acupoint Characteristics from the Classical Medical Text: DongUiBoGam of Korean Medicine

Table 1

The five most frequently used acupoints with the five most valued tf-idf patterns.

ā€‰Patterns
Acupoints(tf-idf)
(frequency)1st2nd3rd4th5th
ā€‰(tf-idf)(tf-idf)(tf-idf)(tf-idf)(tf-idf)

CV4FireSmall intestineQiBladderKidney
(16)(0.58)(0.40)(0.33)(0.32)(0.23)

CV6FireQiKidneySmall intestineBlood
(16)(0.63)(0.31)(0.29)(0.28)(0.27)

ST36HeartPhlegmFireBloodQi
(13)(0.42)(0.41)(0.40)(0.38)(0.31)

SP6FireQiHeartBloodDampness
(12)(0.56)(0.32)(0.32)(0.31)(0.27)

CV3FireBloodHeartDampnessQi
(12)(0.61)(0.38)(0.37)(0.31)(0.29)