Research Article
Detection of Herb-Symptom Associations from Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinical Data
Table 5
Example of herb-symptom relationship (clinical label, no correlation: 0).
(a) GPBT herb-symptom relationship |
| ā | Herb | Symptom | Clinical label (no correlation: 0) | Chi-square test: P value | Chi-square test: q-value | NetCorrA: P value | NetCorrA: q-value |
| 1 | Chinese angelica | White tongue coating | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2685 | 0.5993 | 2 | Chinese angelica | Red throat | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5573 | 0.9024 | 3 | Chinese angelica | Thin fur | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2679 | 0.5983 | 4 | Danshen root | Red throat | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.9232 | 0.9988 | 5 | Danshen root | White tongue coating | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1605 | 0.4297 | 6 | Danshen root | Slippery pulse | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2459 | 0.5689 | 7 | Liquorice root | Red throat | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2346 | 0.5531 | 8 | Liquorice root | Belch | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1919 | 0.4841 | 9 | Baical skullcap root | Little phlegm | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.8659 | 0.9953 | 10 | Baical skullcap root | White tongue coating | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3811 | 0.7394 |
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(b) INSOMNIA herb-symptom relationship |
| ā | Herb | Symptom | Clinical label (no correlation: 0) | Chi-square test: P value | Chi-square test: q-value | NetCorrA: P value | NetCorrA: q-value |
| 1 | Chinese angelica | Oliguria | 0 | | | 0.2352 | 0.5299 | 2 | Chinese angelica | Deep pulse | 0 | | | 0.1422 | 0.4053 | 3 | Chinese angelica | Hypodynamia | 0 | | | 0.4162 | 0.6660 | 4 | Chinese angelica | Pale white tongue | 0 | | | 0.1203 | 0.3657 | 5 | Poria with hostwood | Rootless fur | 0 | | | 0.0876 | 0.3004 | 6 | Poria with hostwood | Thin fur | 0 | | | 0.1548 | 0.4259 | 7 | Poria with hostwood | Anorexia | 0 | | | 0.0304 | 0.1476 | 8 | Ginseng | Expectoration | 0 | | | 0.3982 | 0.6562 | 9 | Long Gu | Night sweat | 0 | | | 0.7702 | 0.7868 | 10 | Long Gu | Lumbago and knee arthralgia | 0 | | | 0.4869 | 0.6999 |
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(c) TS herb-symptom relationship |
| ā | Herb | Symptom | Chi-square test: P value | Chi-square test: q-value | NetCorrA: P value | NetCorrA: q-value |
| 1 | Figwort root | Feverishness in palms and soles | 0.0077 | 0.3001 | 0.1121 | 0.6405 | 2 | Figwort root | Head flick | 0.0271 | 0.6168 | 0.2739 | 0.8109 | 3 | Figwort root | Abnormal tongue fur | 0.1199 | 0.9953 | 0.0057 | 0.2178 | 4 | Figwort root |
Kengkeng | 0.1435 | 0.9953 | 0.1163 | 0.6479 | 5 | Tangshen | Malnutrition | 0.0252 | 0.6169 | 0.0290 | 0.3843 |
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(d) CHF herb-symptom relationship |
| ā | Herb | Symptom | Chi-square test: P value | Chi-square test: q-value | NetCorrA: P value | NetCorrA: q-value |
| 1 | Tangshen | Eye mental deficiency | 0.0018 | 0.9946 | 0.0291 | 0.9954 | 2 | Tangshen | Wheezing | 0.0033 | 0.9946 | 0.0723 | 0.9988 | 3 | Tangshen | Mental burnout | 0.0444 | 0.9946 | 0.2704 | 0.9985 | 4 | Cassia twig | Burnout | 0.1127 | 0.9946 | 0.0549 | 0.9825 | 5 | Cassia twig | Short breath | 0.0092 | 0.9946 | 0.0019 | 0.8759 |
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