Standardized Exploration of the Terminology of Vomiting Symptoms in TCM
Objective To standardize the descriptions of vomiting symptoms in ancient and modern medical records;To provide a reference for the standardization of vomiting symptoms.Methods The cloud platform of ancient and contemporary medical records(V2.3.5),CNKI,VIP,and Wanfang data were retrieved to collect the medical records of ancient and modern doctors treating vomiting.The contents of the medical records were marked,and the original materials of the descriptions of vomiting symptoms were collected by ancient and contemporary doctors.Three primary data pre-processing methods were adopted,namely,compound symptom resolution,effective symptom extraction and logical relationship retention.The processed data were classified into vomiting substances,vomiting onset time and vomiting onset degree by symptom classification.The vomiting symptoms were normalized by three methods,namely,preferred terminology formulation,logical generalization and quantitative classification.Results 37 vomiting symptoms were obtained,including 25 terms of the nature of vomiting,10 terms of the time of the vomiting attack,and 2 terms of the degree of the vomiting attack.Conclusion In this study,the standardized terminology of vomiting symptoms in TCM is initially formed,which can solve the problems of complicated contents and unclear classification of vomiting symptoms.
ancient and modern famous medical recordsvomiting symptomsterminology standardization