Abstract:Objective:To analyze the composing experience of professor YAN Zheng-hua for treating insomnia by traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)inheritance support system. Method: The prescriptions for insomnia by YAN Zheng-hua were collected,then the data were entered into TCM inheritance support system and analyzed the composing principles by using datamining methods such as revised mutual information,complex system entropy cluster and unsupervised hierarchical cluster. Result: Based on the analysis of 170 prescriptions, the frequency of each herb and association rules among the herbs were computed, 44 core combinations and 7 new prescriptions were mined from the database. Conclusion: Professor YAN Zheng-hua is good at nourishing the heart to calm the mind and tranquillizatting with heavy to relieve insomnia,TCM inheritance support system can be used to analyze clinical experiences of senior TCM doctors.
