Research Article

A Key Node Mining Method Based on Acupoint-Disease Network (ADN): A New Perspective for Exploring Acupoint Specificity

Table 4

The top five most frequent diagnoses and prescribed acupoints.

Diagnosis pattern code frequency (n)Acupoint frequency (%)

U61
460
ST36
32 (7.0%)
ST35
27 (5.9%)
LI4
26 (5.7%)
SP6
25 (5.4%)
SP10
21 (4.6%)
U62
432
LI4
38 (8.8%)
ST36
37 (8.6%)
LR3
36 (8.3%)
KI3
25 (5.8%)
SP6
21 (4.9%)
U71
424
KI3
40 (9.4%)
SP6
25 (5.9%)
KI7
18 (4.2%)
BL23
16 (3.8%)
LI4
15 (3.5%)
U65
397
LR3
49 (12.3%)
LI4
38 (9.6%)
CV17
26 (6.5%)
GV20
24 (6.0%)
SP6
24 (6.0%)
U63
378
ST36
39 (10.3%)
LI4
33 (8.7%)
CV12
32 (8.5%)
PC6
24 (6.3%)
ST40
21 (5.6%)