Analysis of the Pattern of Medication used in the Treatment of Cough in Danxi Xinfa
Objective:To explore the medication rules and academic thoughts for treating cough in Danxi Xinfa.Methods:The prescriptions that met the inclusion criteria in Danxi Xinfa were collected by reading the full text,and a cough prescription database was established using Microsoft Excel 2016 software.The Gujinyun Medical Case Platform(V2.3.5)website was used for statistical analysis.Results:A total of 36 prescriptions were included,involving 90 Chi-nese medicines.The high-frequency Chinese medicines(frequency≥7)were Pinellia,Bitter Apricot,Licorice,Indigo,Ginger Juice,and Poria.The most effective drugs were heat-clearing drugs.The properties of the medicine are mainly cold and warm;the taste of the medicine is mainly sweet,pungent and bitter;the meridians are mainly lung meridian,liver meridian and spleen meridian;based on the ancient and modern cloud medical case platform,five pairs of medi-cines were obtained through association rule analysis,including licorice-pinellia,Poria-pinellia,Poria-licorice;and three clustered prescriptions were obtained through cluster analysis,including ① bitter almond ② pinellia,licorice,Poria ③ Fritillaria thunbergii,indigo,ginger juice,and Cyperus rotundus.Conclusion:ZHU Danxi used both cold and warm medicines,and both attacked and supplemented.He attached importance to cultivating soil to produce gold,treating the lungs,spleen and liver at the same time,and paid attention to the theory of qi,blood,phlegm and depres-sion,and applied the method of relieving depression and resolving phlegm to cough.