Mining Symptom-Herb Patterns from Patient Records Using Tripartite Graph

Table 1

Properties of four TCM data sets. Here, “—” represents that this attribute can not be included in this data set.

	Insomnia	Infertility	Diabetes	Tourette
Number of prescriptions	460	852	1674	670
Number of herbs	111	251	204	189
Number of symptoms	155	389	186	—
Number of syndromes	—	106	178	98
Symptoms per herb	82.58	71.64	84.72	—
Syndromes per herb	—	24.34	29.56	20.56
Herbs per symptom	59.14	46.4	33.89	—
Herbs per syndrome	—	57.41	92.91	71.13