Research Article
A Core Drug Discovery Framework from Large-Scale Literature for Cold Pathogenic Disease Treatment in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Table 2
Top-10 drugs in partial drug communities found by the proposed framework.
| Community | Efficacy | Drug (English) | Drug (Chinese) |
| Red | Relieving superficies syndrome with pungent and warm natured drugs (辛温解表) | Liquorice root | 甘草 | Fresh ginger | 生姜 | Paeonia lactiflora pall | 芍药 | Cassia twig | 桂枝 | Dried ginger | 干姜 | Chinese date | 大枣 | Pinellia tuber | 半夏 | Prepared common monkshood branched root | 附子 | Ginseng | 人参 |
| Dark green | Benefitting vital energy and invigorating spleen (益气健脾) | Liquorice root | 甘草 | Largehead atractylodes rhizome | 白术 | Tangshen | 党参 | Oriental waterplantain rhizome | 泽泻 | Common yam rhizome | 山药 | Indian bread | 茯苓 | Gordon euryale seed | 芡实 | Milkvetch root | 黄芪 | Zhuling | 猪苓 | Cherokee rose fruit | 金樱子 |
| Light green | Strengthening body resistance for relieving superficies syndrome (扶正解表) | Ephedra | 麻黄 | Manchurian wildginger | 细辛 | Prepared common monkshood branched root | 附子 | Bitter apricot seed | 杏仁 | Platycodon root | 桔梗 |
| Blue | Activating blood circulation (活血) | Safflower | 红花 | Danshen root | 丹参 | Debark peony root | 白芍 | Peony root | 赤芍 | Sichuan lovage rhizome | 川芎 | Peach seed | 桃仁 | Chinese angelica | 当归 | Suberect spatholobus stem | 鸡血藤 | Hirsute shiny bugleweed drug | 泽兰 | Rhubarb root and rhizome | 大黄 |
| Dark purple | Activating qi and digestive (行气消食) | Dried tangerine peel | 陈皮 | Common aucklandia root | 木香 | Immature tangerine peel | 青皮 | Nutgrass galingale rhizome | 香附 | Yanhusuo | 延胡索 | Villous amomum fruit | 砂仁 | Orange fruit | 枳壳 | Finger citron | 佛手 | Turmeric root tuber | 郁金 | Medicated leaven | 神曲 |
| Light purple | Expelling superficial evils and clearing away the heat-evil (清热解毒) | Isatis root | 板蓝根 | Dandelion | 蒲公英 | Honeysuckle bud and flower | 金银花 | Heartleaf houttuynia drug | 鱼腥草 | Weeping forsythia capsule | 连翘 | Wild chrysanthemum flower | 野菊花 | Fern rhizome | 贯众 | Tokyo violet drug | 紫花地丁 | Atrina glass | 败酱草 | Great burdock achene | 牛蒡子 |
|
|