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

	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

(b) INSOMNIA herb-symptom relationship

	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

(c) TS herb-symptom relationship

	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

(d) CHF herb-symptom relationship

	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