Data Mining-Based Analysis of Chinese Medicinal Herb Formulae in Chronic Kidney Disease Treatment

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Property, taste, and meridian tropism of herbs. (a) Herb properties. All herbs in each prescription were analyzed using a radar chart divided into five categories. (b) Herb taste. Tastes were divided into six categories using a radar chart. (c) Meridian tropism of herbs. We created a tree diagram of the meridian tropism of all herbs. Different meridian tropisms are indicated by different colors as shown at the bottom of the diagram. All images were analyzed using Microsoft Excel 2016.

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